How can LCA include prospective elements to assess emerging technologies and system transitions? The 76th LCA Discussion Forum on Life Cycle Assessment, 19 November 2020

Lugas Raka Adrianto, Mitchell K. van der Hulst, Janot P. Tokaya, Rickard Arvidsson, Carlos F. Blanco, Carla Caldeira, Gonzalo Guillén-Gonsálbez, Serenella Sala, Bernhard Steubing, Matthias Buyle, Mohamad Kaddoura, Nicolas H. Navarre, Julien Pedneault, Massimo Pizzol, Beatrice Salieri, Toon van Harmelen, Mara Hauck*

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Abstract

This paper summarizes the 76th LCA Discussion Forum end its main findings. Main issues when addressing emerging technologies identified were: the lack of primary data, the need for (shared) future background scenarios and (guidlines for) a common methodology. The following recommendations have been derived by the organizers: 1) Specific foreground inventories are always tailor-made, but consistency can be improved through lists of mandatory considerations. 2) Continue sharing (future) technology data and proxy processes, that can be readily replicated to new studies and assist in developing inventories. 3) Streamline and unify the process of including scenarios for background systems. New approaches may provide first important solutions to efficiently include consistent future scenarios in prospective LCA.

Original languageEnglish
JournalInternational Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
Volume26
Issue number8
Pages (from-to)1541-1544
Number of pages4
ISSN0948-3349
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2021

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The organizers of the Discussion Forum would like to thank the sponsors (Carbotech, ETH Zurich, treeze Ltd. and Empa), the advisory board, the technical team and, most importantly, the speakers, the panellists (listed in the previous sections) and participants for their contribution to the success of the event. Lugas Raka Adrianto and Matthias Buyle are grateful for the funding provided by the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 under Grant Agreement No. 812580 ‘SULTAN’ and No. 730471 ‘CHROMIC’, respectively.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.

Keywords

  • Emerging technologies
  • LCA discussion forum
  • Prospective LCA
  • Transitions

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