Newsletter

Latest news from Swedish Life Cycle Center and Innovation cluster for the life cycle perspective.

Dear all,

Before we all head off for some well-deserved summer break, we’d like to share a quick update on recent highlights and what’s coming up after the holidays. In this issue, you’ll find news about an exciting new project, the latest Life Cycle Talk, and an update to the Center’s Research Strategy. 

There are also conferences to look forward to. In September the Technical Secretariat are participating in LCM 2025 and hope to see many of you in Palermo - there’s still time to register! And in November our yearly Network Conference will take place. 

As summer approaches, we want to thank you for your engagement this spring and wish you a relaxing and joyful summer! 

Sincerely, 

Anna Wikström, Yulia Liu and Maria Rydberg, Technical Secretariat, Swedish Life Cycle Center

Latest news from Swedish Life Cycle Center

New project from the Swedish Energy Agency

We are pleased to announce that we have received new funding from the Swedish Energy Agency for the project Innovation Cluster for the Life Cycle Perspective 2025–2027. The project, which started on June 1, enables more capacity-building and networking activities for all partners, SMEs, and government agencies in collaboration with the center. It also makes it possible to spread the life cycle perspective to more organizations outside the center. 

The previous project, Innovation Cluster for the Life Cycle Perspective 2020–2024, was concluded in May 2025. You are warmly welcome to contribute to the evaluation of that project by responding to a short survey, link below.

Latest news from partners & the life cycle community

Survey on Absolute Environmental Sustainability Assessments

Are you working on using planetary boundaries and LCA to perform Absolute Environmental Sustainability Assessments? In a joint effort, researchers from the DTU - Technical University of Denmark, UCL and European Commission have prepared the first “Guidance for applying absolute environmental sustainability assessment on activities at different scales (BETA VERSION)”.

Take part in a survey to give feedback on the beta version. More information in the link below.

Publications

Journal article: The myth of informed decision-making: explaining the substantive effectiveness of LCA use in a building product development project
Authors: Sjouke Beemsterboer, Henrikke Baumann, Holger Wallbaum
Publisher: The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 

Journal article: Towards a method for poverty reduction potential in social life cycle assessment with application to the cobalt supply chain
Authors: Rickard Arvidsson, Julia Brunke, Anders Nordelöf
Publisher: The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 

Journal article: Environmental life cycle assessment of a commercial aquaponic system
Authors: Elisabet Freyja Henriksson, Mugahid Elnour, Michael Martin
Publisher: Cleaner Environmental Systems 

Journal article: Life cycle assessment of recirculating aquaculture systems with innovative biochar filter for enhanced nutrient recirculation
Authors: Marta Behjat, Magdalena Svanström, Gregory Peters, Niklas Wennberg
Publisher: Resources, Environment and Sustainability 

Journal article: A novel assessment framework for circular urban areas with its application to a Swedish municipality
Authors: Asterios Papageorgiou, Anna Björklund, Rajib Sinha
Publisher: Sustainable Production and Consumption 

Journal article: Environmental and economic assessment of electric ferries with different lithium-ion battery technologies
Authors: Fayas Malik Kanchiralla, Emma Grunditz, Anders Nordelöf, Selma Brynolf, Evelina Wikner
Publisher: Applied Energy

Calendar

Other upcoming events

2025-09-09 – 2025-09-12: LCM 2025, Palermo, Italy

2025-10-15 – 2025-10-16 Circular Materials Conference 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark

Partnership

Collaboration opportunities

Swedish 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 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.