Life Cycle Initiative 2002-2022: Speeding up the transition to Sustainable consumption and production with Life Cycle Approaches

When: Thursday 23 June 2022, 13:30 – 15:30 CEST Paris 

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The Life Cycle Initiative, hosted by UNEP, promotes life cycle knowledge, revealing the unintended trade-offs between circular approaches' social, environmental, and economic impacts. This makes life cycle thinking essential for public and private decision-makers to foster progress towards sustainable production and consumption patterns. To achieve this, the Initiative works to build international consensus and access to science-based life cycle knowledge and tools and improve the application of life cycle knowledge by private and public decision-makers with (policy) advice and capacity building in high-impact sectors.  

The Initiative was launched in 2002 by UNEP and the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) to enable the global use of credible life cycle knowledge. The 20 years of existence is a perfect moment to take stock of the achievements. And to look forward to discussing how the Initiative and the wider life cycle community could improve the application of the knowledge and tools to speed up the transition to sustainable consumption and production patterns using circular approaches without unintended trade-offs.  

For whom?  This webinar focuses on decision-makers at businesses and governments, scientists/LCA practitioners worldwide and everyone interested in how life cycle knowledge can speed up the sustainable transition.   

Why join?

• If you work in a government, you will hear more about how the Life Cycle Initiative enables you to create science-based policies, which will help you speed up the sustainable transition in your country.
• If you work in the private sector, you will better understand why and how you could lower the environmental impact of your product to create a future-proof business.
• If you are a scientist or an LCA Practitioner, the achievement of the last 20 years will be of interest to your work and your possible future contributions.
• And you'll have the opportunity to share your thoughts and questions, so we learn from all of you to understand how we could enable you to speed up the transition better.