Side Events

17:30-19:00 CEST | Monday, 21 October | Valdemar

Klimatkoll Guldheden AB

Play Climate Call - a scientific card game session on how our day-to-day activities affect the climate and/or try our Climate Quiz, revealing common misconceptions and highlighting positive trends.

Target group
Everyone, especially people interested in communicating and teaching about climate, sustainability as well as biodiversity.

17:30-19:00 CEST | Monday, 21 October | Scania

Holis

LCAs have been on the rise for the past years and upcoming regulations will drastically increase the demand for such studies. We propose a brief review of the current context which will help us understand why new LCA tools are needed and how they can help to democratize LCA whether it be for industrial players or academics. After this short presentation, participants will take part in a collaborative Ecodesign workshop using Holis Studio. This workshop will be an opportunity to discover a new LCA & ecodesign tool as well as to discuss current barriers to scaling ecodesign with the LCA community.

Target Group
Manufacturers, decision-makers, researchers & academics, consultants

To fully engage with the workshop, participants will need to bring a laptop.

17:30-19:00 CEST | Monday, 21 October | Palmstedtsalen

Technical University of Denmark

The Life Cycle Initiative started GLAM in 2013, in collaboration with the University of Michigan, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), and Denmark’s Technical University (DTU), to enhance global consensus on environmental life cycle impact assessment indicators. The project aims to generate tangible and practical recommendations for different environmental indicators and characterization factors used in Life Cycle Impact Assessments (LCIA). This session will launch the final version of GLAM including a presentation of the method, GLAM method and its updated characterization factors, followed by an interactive discussion.

Target Group
LCIA method developers, providers of life cycle thinking studies (primarily consultants and industry professionals, and users of life cycle information, including governmental and intergovernmental organizations, government, industry, NGOs, and academics.

18:30 CEST | Monday, 21 October | Conference venue

Join the welcome reception on Monday, 21 October. The welcome reception is hosted by Gothenburg City and free of charge. Have some drinks, network your way through the crowd and enjoy a toast to a great beginning of the conference! The official programme will begin at 19:15 CEST after the side events have concluded.

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17:30-19:00 CEST | Tuesday, 22 October | Valdemar

Klimatkoll Guldheden AB

Play Climate Call - a scientific card game session on how our day-to-day activities affect the climate and/or try our Climate Quiz, revealing common misconceptions and highlighting positive trends.

Target group
Everyone, especially people interested in communicating and teaching about climate, sustainability as well as biodiversity.

17:30-19:00 CEST | Tuesday, 22 October | Ledningsrummet

Swedish Life Cycle Center

Get to know the Swedish Life Cycle Center during this informative side event. In this session, you can expect: 

• Introduction to Swedish Life Cycle Center. Learn about our mission, vision, and the role we play in advancing the life cycle filed.
• Our ways of work. Uncover the strategies and methodologies we use to bridge research, industry, and policy to create lasting impact.
• Showcasing Current Projects. Get an update on our ongoing initiatives and learn how you can get engaged.
• Benefits of Partnership. Hear firsthand from our existing partners and understand the advantages of joining the center.

Target Group

• Prospective partners seeking collaboration opportunities.
• People working at current partner organisations that want to learn more and get engaged in the center.
• People interested in launching similar organisations.
• Curious minds eager to learn more about the organisation co-organising the conference togheter with SETAC.

17:30-19:00 CEST | Tuesday, 22 October | Scania

Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology

The Design of a Blueprint for the Global Nomenclature Governance System project aims to bring the international community a step closer to addressing LCA data interoperability challenges. This project is conducted by IBICT (Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology) in partnership with GLAD (Global LCA Data Access Network).

Target group
LCA practitioners, LCA Database managers, LCA method developers

Purpose
Share the project findings with the community

19:30 CEST | Tuesday, 22 October | Elite Park Avenue

Join us for a delightful evening during the Conference Dinner at the Elite Park Avenue! Starting with a mingle over delicious canapés, followed by a two-course sit-down dinner and entertainment, this is a perfect opportunity to network, connect and unwind.

Fee: 70€ regular members, 35€ student members

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13:30-18:30 CEST | Wednesday, 23 October | Scania

University of Bath

Reviewing the progress of the project. Discussing options to be recommended, the rationale for this and implications to different contexts/cases. Register here for the UNEP/LCI Biogenic Carbon Project - Gothenburg workshop.

Target group
Members of the working groups of the project.

13:30-18:00 CEST | Wednesday, 23 October | Ledningsrummet

NEF - Nordic Environmental Footprint Group

Life cycle thinking has increasingly found its way into legislation and other initiatives over the past decade. The market - consumers and businesses – shall act as a driver for more sustainable products by demanding LCA-based environmental performance results. The ability for the consumer - or even a professional procurement departments - to indeed make this choice may depend on whether it is possible to identify the best choice based on objective criteria. The credibility associated with product-related claims is a central element in the success of this ambition. In this event, the Nordic Environmental Footprint Group discusses the consequences of calculating and presenting value-chain LCA-based ESG data when the methodological frameworks regarding the value-chain approach, the types of environmental impacts, data quality and other methodological issues are not harmonized. The presentation will investigate the effect of methodological freedom. Alignment and criteria guiding the solidity of claims will be discussed as a means to support the intention with the inclusion of LCA in legislation and other market-oriented initiatives The presentation and discussion are based on the paper: “Closing the gap. The critical role of LCA methodology in decision making. A case of harmonization between PEF and EPD”. The paper can be downloaded from www.nordic-pef.org before the SETAC conference.

You can register here for the workshop.

Target group
Decision makers, researchers, procurers and programme operaters. The event is shedding light on systemic challenges using LCA results in decision making processes and will present and discuss approaches.