Agenda

This session explores the application of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) as a tool to evaluate the environmental impacts of agricultural systems, from crop production to livestock management. The session also welcomes studies on biomass valorisation. It will address methodologies for assessing resource use, greenhouse gas emissions, and sustainability trade-offs across the supply chain. Key objectives include showcasing recent research, highlighting case studies from different contexts, and discussing how LCA can inform policy, technology adoption, and sustainable farming practices. The session aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and industry stakeholders who are interested in advancing sustainable agriculture through evidence-based decision-making. By providing insights into challenges and opportunities of LCA in agriculture, the session will enable dialogue and collaboration toward reducing environmental footprints and enhancing resilience in the sector.

The topic of carbon storage in buildings remains a point of contention in both policy and LCA community, challenging the static assumptions of current standards and raising critical questions about dynamic carbon accounting. This challenge session aims to convene interdisciplinary experts to examine the role of construction materials, both bio-based and mineral, in sequestering carbon within the built environment. Discussions will focus on methodological advances required to quantify, verify, and ensure long-term carbon storage, including the integration of digital tools like Building Information Modelling (BIM) for transparent tracking. The forum will explore forward-thinking design strategies that optimize carbon uptake without compromising performance or durability, while also engaging with emerging policies, certification schemes, and financial instruments such as carbon credits. Case studies from real-world projects will provide empirical grounding for the debate, highlighting both challenges and successes. The event aims to promote global cooperation, harmonization of approaches, and technology transfer, aiming to position buildings not merely as passive consumers of resources but as active agents of climate mitigation. Through this dialogue, the session seeks to clarify methodological pathways, inform future standards, and support a transformative shift toward climate-positive construction.

As global energy systems undergo rapid transformation in response to climate targets, decarbonisation goals, and technological innovation, Life Cycle Assessment has become an essential tool to evaluate and guide sustainable energy transitions. This session seeks to highlight methodologies and case studies that apply LCA to energy production, conversion, distribution, storage, and consumption across scales and geographies. We invite researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to submit abstracts.

LCA has always been a data-hungry approach; recently, new possibilities to create datasets have emerged, but of course “traditional” approaches still remain in use. This session is about experiences and solutions about creating unit process datasets, with or without AI support, with and without industry input, and about quality assurance and compilation of created datasets.

openLCA is increasingly used integrated in other tools and into larger IT ecosystems, be it laboratory systems, ERP systems, process engineering software, web-tools, or others. This session is to collect examples and share experiences, and lessons learned. This can include using the openLCA API and also more recent developments such as the openLCA libraries.

The session will explore studies that consider plastic repurpose, reuse, reduce, refuse and recycle. Assessments can go beyond LCA, e.g. System Dynamics, or other. Generally, we will be looking at answering the question of “what to do with plastics looking at the future”?

This session addresses the increasingly complex reality facing companies and LCA practitioners who must navigate overlapping, sometimes conflicting sustainability regulations. As organisations grapple with CBAM reporting, CSRD disclosure requirements, EU Taxonomy alignment, and sector-specific frameworks, the traditional boundaries of LCA work are being stretched beyond recognition.

Social LCA is an established procedure, yet many challenges remain, considering method, data and acceptance. This session is meant for exchange of experiences related to the application of social LCA. What was the result? How was it taken up by the audience? What are pain-points in an application? What worked well?

This session focuses on integration opportunities and challenges regarding broader sustainability assessments that combine the two approaches LCSA and System Dynamics. The session will host presentations regarding case studies, frameworks, validation, data collection as well as software solutions for system dynamics sustainability assessments and facilitate a discussion on opportunities and challenges on this novel approach.

Building on the topic session, this panel discussion addresses the increasingly complex reality facing companies and LCA practitioners who must navigate overlapping, sometimes conflicting sustainability regulations. As organisations grapple with CBAM reporting, CSRD disclosure requirements, EU Taxonomy alignment, and sector-specific frameworks, the traditional boundaries of LCA work are being stretched beyond recognition.

This session explores the application of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) as a tool to evaluate the environmental impacts of agricultural systems, from crop production to livestock management. The session also welcomes studies on biomass valorisation. It will address methodologies for assessing resource use, greenhouse gas emissions, and sustainability trade-offs across the supply chain. Key objectives include showcasing recent research, highlighting case studies from different contexts, and discussing how LCA can inform policy, technology adoption, and sustainable farming practices. The session aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and industry stakeholders who are interested in advancing sustainable agriculture through evidence-based decision-making. By providing insights into challenges and opportunities of LCA in agriculture, the session will enable dialogue and collaboration toward reducing environmental footprints and enhancing resilience in the sector.

The topic of carbon storage in buildings remains a point of contention in both policy and LCA community, challenging the static assumptions of current standards and raising critical questions about dynamic carbon accounting. This challenge session aims to convene interdisciplinary experts to examine the role of construction materials, both bio-based and mineral, in sequestering carbon within the built environment. Discussions will focus on methodological advances required to quantify, verify, and ensure long-term carbon storage, including the integration of digital tools like Building Information Modelling (BIM) for transparent tracking. The forum will explore forward-thinking design strategies that optimize carbon uptake without compromising performance or durability, while also engaging with emerging policies, certification schemes, and financial instruments such as carbon credits. Case studies from real-world projects will provide empirical grounding for the debate, highlighting both challenges and successes. The event aims to promote global cooperation, harmonization of approaches, and technology transfer, aiming to position buildings not merely as passive consumers of resources but as active agents of climate mitigation. Through this dialogue, the session seeks to clarify methodological pathways, inform future standards, and support a transformative shift toward climate-positive construction.

As global energy systems undergo rapid transformation in response to climate targets, decarbonisation goals, and technological innovation, Life Cycle Assessment has become an essential tool to evaluate and guide sustainable energy transitions. This session seeks to highlight methodologies and case studies that apply LCA to energy production, conversion, distribution, storage, and consumption across scales and geographies. We invite researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to submit abstracts.

LCA has always been a data-hungry approach; recently, new possibilities to create datasets have emerged, but of course “traditional” approaches still remain in use. This session is about experiences and solutions about creating unit process datasets, with or without AI support, with and without industry input, and about quality assurance and compilation of created datasets.

openLCA is increasingly used integrated in other tools and into larger IT ecosystems, be it laboratory systems, ERP systems, process engineering software, web-tools, or others. This session is to collect examples and share experiences, and lessons learned. This can include using the openLCA API and also more recent developments such as the openLCA libraries.

The session will explore studies that consider plastic repurpose, reuse, reduce, refuse and recycle. Assessments can go beyond LCA, e.g. System Dynamics, or other. Generally, we will be looking at answering the question of “what to do with plastics looking at the future”?

This session addresses the increasingly complex reality facing companies and LCA practitioners who must navigate overlapping, sometimes conflicting sustainability regulations. As organisations grapple with CBAM reporting, CSRD disclosure requirements, EU Taxonomy alignment, and sector-specific frameworks, the traditional boundaries of LCA work are being stretched beyond recognition.

Social LCA is an established procedure, yet many challenges remain, considering method, data and acceptance. This session is meant for exchange of experiences related to the application of social LCA. What was the result? How was it taken up by the audience? What are pain-points in an application? What worked well?

This session focuses on integration opportunities and challenges regarding broader sustainability assessments that combine the two approaches LCSA and System Dynamics. The session will host presentations regarding case studies, frameworks, validation, data collection as well as software solutions for system dynamics sustainability assessments and facilitate a discussion on opportunities and challenges on this novel approach.