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Sustainable and smart mobility and associated energy systems are key to decarbonize the EU and develop a clean, resource efficient, circular and carbon-neutral future. To achieve the 2030 and 2050...
The consumption of materials and products is one of the drivers of biodiversity loss, which in turn affects ecosystem functioning and has socio-economic consequences worldwide. Life cycle assessment (LCA)...
As a result of the growing awareness of the need to prevent food waste, several initiatives have been launched in the last few years to reduce food waste generated across...
Depletion is the concept underpinning one of the most widely applied approach to account for the impacts associated with mineral and metal resource use in Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA)...
The need to increase circularity of industrial systems to address limited resources availability and climate change has triggered the development of the food waste biorefinery concept. However, for the development...
Unveiling the potential for an efficient use of nitrogen along the food supply and consumption chain
Ensuring global food security is one of the challenges of our society. Nitrogen availability has is key for food production, while contributing to different environmental impacts. This paper...
The planetary boundaries (PBs) represent a well-known concept, which helps identify whether production and consumption systems are environmentally sustainable in absolute terms, namely compared...
In 2011 the EC-JRC published the International Reference Life Cycle Data System (ILCD) Handbook recommendations on the use of Impact Assessment models for use in LCA (EC-JRC 2011a)...
Ensuring responsible production and consumption is one of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to which the European Union (EU) has committed. An increasing body of literature...