Newsletter 5: 2025, Swedish Life Cycle Center & Innovation cluster for the life cycle perspective.
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Latest news from Swedish Life Cycle Center and Innovation cluster for the life cycle perspective.
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Image from last years SETAC Europe LCA Symposium, 21–23 October 2024. | A
year ago, we hosted the largest SETAC Europe LCA Symposium to date. It was an
intense, rewarding, and fun experience! In this newsletter, you’ll find updates
about the next edition of the symposium.
With
two months left of 2025, there’s still lots to look forward to: Life Cycle
Talk, a webinar sharing results from the Consistent Standards for LCA project,
upcoming working and expert group meetings. Looking further than that, towards 2026,
there will be a big celebration as the center turns 30 years, 1996-2026. Thirty
years of research, collaboration and knowledge exchange and still going strong and
working from the acceleration of sustainable transition through science-based
life cycle action.
Sincerely, Anna Wikström and Maria Rydberg, Technical Secretariat, Swedish Life Cycle Center. |
Latest news from Swedish Life Cycle Center
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Highlights from LCM 2025 in Palermo
LCM 2025 in Palermo brought inspiring discussions, fresh perspectives, and strong contributions from our network. As one of the world’s leading forums for life cycle approaches, this year’s theme “Global to Local” highlighted practical sustainability solutions across industry, policy, and research. Topics ranged from CO₂ traceability and textile circularity to second-life batteries and sustainable aviation, with our partners also chairing sessions on circular plastics and energy decision-making.
| Reflections from Stage 10
Read about key outcomes from our newly published Stage 10 self-assessment report, highlighting achievements, collaborations and lessons from the operational period 2022–2024.
| | | | Catch up on Life Cycle Talks
Watch the latest Life Cycle Talks with Andrea Paulillo and Anders Bjørn on our Youtube channel – and don’t miss the upcoming talk with An De Schryver on 5 December 2025.
| | | | The center in UN Life Cycle Initiative Steering Committee
Anna Wikström (project manager at the Technical secretariat) has been elected to the UN Life Cycle Initiative Steering Committee, representing the Science/Civil Society constituency on behalf of the Swedish Life Cycle Center.
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Latest news from partners & the life cycle community
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SETAC Europe invites you to contribute to two major events in 2026!Save the dates and don’t miss out on the opportunities to contribute to the conferences. Share your ideas and help shape the programme. SETAC Europe 36th Annual Meeting, 17–21 May in Maastricht – submit your abstract by 26 November:
| SETAC Europe 27th LCA Symposium, 19–21 October in Bruges – propose a session by 14 January:
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Journal article: Life cycle assessment of recirculating aquaculture systems with innovative biochar filter for enhanced nutrient recirculation
Authors: Marta Behjat, Magdalena Svanström, Greg Peters, Niklas Wennberg
Publisher: Resources, Environment and Sustainability, RES journal volume 21 Journal article: Exploring the use of a machine assisted goal and scope in a Life Cycle Studies to understand stakeholder interest and priorities
Authors: Pechsiri JS, Souza A, Pechsiri AC, Shigwedha PK, Katjouanga U, Mapani B, Goodman RC, Sundberg C, Ericsson N
Publisher: Cleaner Environmental Systems Journal article: Future climate impact of all-solid-state batteries
Authors: Shan Zhang, Daniel Brandell, Mario Valvo, Bernhard Steubing, Åke Nordberg
Publisher: Journal of Cleaner Production Journal article: Review of water treatment technologies for PFAS from a life cycle perspective, with meta-analysis of financial costs and climate impacts
Authors: Sabrina Altmeyer Mendes, Rahul Aggarwal, Magdalena Svanström, Gregory Peters
Publisher: Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Volume 223, September 2025, 108524 Journal article: Gaps and lack of harmonization in LCA of the electromobility sector: where do we stand and where could we go?
Authors: Antoine Beylot, Marco Raugei, Hazem Eltohamy, Nikolas Hill, Pascal Menegazzi, Stéphanie Muller, Kadam Lokesh, Joris Baars, Diana Bartaune, Julia Lindholm, Fredrik Tegstedt, Nilay Elginoz Kanat, Mara Neef, Lasse Schmidt, Fabien Perdu, Marie Pinochet, Astu Sam Pratiwi, Ketan Vaidya, Benedicte Robertz, Jair Santillan-Saldivar, Jana Husmann & Bernhard Steubing
Publisher: The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
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Working group meeting: Biodiversity & LCADate: November 6, 2025
Time: 09:00-10:30 (CET)
Place: Online
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Working group meeting: Dialogue meeting for government agenciesDate: November 27, 2025
Time: 09:00-10:30 (CET)
Place: Online This meeting is open for all partners and SMEs in collaboration with the center!
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Webinar: Consistent standards for LCADate: December 10, 2025
Time: 10:30-12:00 (CET)
Place: Online
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Collaboration opportunitiesSwedish Life Cycle Center plays an important role for all its actors within the Center to build networks, competence and influence future development. How the partnership is used is up to the partner. Partners value the direct contact to the network, research and high level discussions. Others are engaged in working groups that go in line with their organization’s agenda. And for some organizations, Swedish Life Cycle Center has been and is a key to their continuous work with life cycle related improvements and capacity building. The Center hosts a dialogue group with nine government agencies in Sweden, engages small and medium-sized companies through a letter of collaboration and enters into collaborative partnerships with other life cycle organizations at a global level. |
Watch our videos whenever you want !
Did
you miss to participate? You can find recordings and presentations
from our earlier webinars at our webpage and on our YouTube. |
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Swedish Life Cycle Center is a Center of Excellence and collaboration platform for academia, research institutes, industry and government agencies. It fosters competence-building and knowledge exchange in advancing and applying the life cycle field. The newsletter is sent from the project Innovation cluster for the life cycle perspective, with funding from the Swedish Energy Agency and partners in the Center.
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Swedish Life Cycle Center - Gothenburg, Sweden
lifecyclecenter@chalmers.se
www.lifecyclecenter.se
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