Life-cycle assessment to guide solutions for the triple planetary crisis

S Hellweg, E Benetto, MAJ Huijbregts… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution—the triple planetary crisis—increasingly
threaten the Earth system, necessitating tools such as life-cycle assessment (LCA) that can …

[HTML][HTML] National SDG-7 performance assessment to support achieving sustainable energy for all within planetary limits

CH Gebara, A Laurent - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Several gaps and limitations characterise present indicators for United Nations' Sustainable
Development Goal 7 (SDG-7), thus impeding effective policy-making. Here, we propose a …

IMPACT World+: a globally regionalized life cycle impact assessment method

C Bulle, M Margni, L Patouillard, AM Boulay… - … International Journal of …, 2019‏ - Springer
Purpose This paper addresses the need for a globally regionalized method for life cycle
impact assessment (LCIA), integrating multiple state-of-the-art developments as well as …

Environmental co-benefits and adverse side-effects of alternative power sector decarbonization strategies

G Luderer, M Pehl, A Arvesen, T Gibon… - Nature …, 2019‏ - nature.com
A rapid and deep decarbonization of power supply worldwide is required to limit global
warming to well below 2° C. Beyond greenhouse gas emissions, the power sector is also …

Review of life-cycle based methods for absolute environmental sustainability assessment and their applications

A Bjørn, C Chandrakumar, AM Boulay… - Environmental …, 2020‏ - iopscience.iop.org
In many regions and at the planetary scale, human pressures on the environment exceed
levels that natural systems can sustain. These pressures are caused by networks of human …

[HTML][HTML] A framework for the assessment of marine litter impacts in life cycle impact assessment

JS Woods, F Verones, O Jolliet, I Vázquez-Rowe… - Ecological …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Purpose Marine litter, mostly plastics, is a growing environmental problem. Environmental
decision makers are beginning to take actions and implement regulations that aim to reduce …

Life cycle assessment of H2O electrolysis technologies

G Zhao, MR Kraglund, HL Frandsen, AC Wulff… - International Journal of …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Hydrogen produced from H 2 O electrolysis works as an energy carrier and helps to
overcome the challenges of intermittent renewable energy sources. At present, no …

Ecotoxicity characterization of chemicals: Global recommendations and implementation in USEtox

M Owsianiak, MZ Hauschild, L Posthuma, E Saouter… - Chemosphere, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Chemicals emitted to the environment affect ecosystem health from local to global scale, and
reducing chemical impacts has become an important element of European and global …

[HTML][HTML] Integration of environment and nutrition in life cycle assessment of food items: opportunities and challenges

S McLaren, A Berardy, A Henderson, N Holden… - 2021‏ - books.google.com
This report is the outcome of a consensus-building project to agree on best practices for
environmental and nutritional Life Cycle Assessment (nLCA) methodology, and identify …

Exposure and toxicity characterization of chemical emissions and chemicals in products: global recommendations and implementation in USEtox

P Fantke, WA Chiu, L Aylward, R Judson… - The international journal …, 2021‏ - Springer
Purpose Reducing chemical pressure on human and environmental health is an integral
part of the global sustainability agenda. Guidelines for deriving globally applicable, life cycle …