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 …

For stakeholders and decision makers within the bioeconomy, it is important that
sustainability assessment methodologies be holistic, reliable, and accurate. Life cycle …

The UNEP-SETAC life cycle initiative recently recommended use of the countryside species–
area relationship (SAR) model to calculate the characterization factors (CFs; potential …

Food security and biodiversity conservation are closely interconnected challenges to be
addressed to achieve a sustainable food system on a global scale. Due to the complex …

Increasing needs for decision support and advances in scientific knowledge within life cycle
assessment (LCA) led to substantial efforts to provide global guidance on environmental life …

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 …

Purpose For over 20 years the feasibility of including man-made impacts on biodiversity in
the context of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has been explored. However, a comprehensive …

Soils provide essential ecosystem services for supporting both human and ecosystem needs
and has been under pressures resulting from the intensification and expansion of human …

Purpose Guidance is needed on best-suited indicators to quantify and monitor the man-
made impacts on human health, biodiversity and resources. Therefore, the UNEP-SETAC …

The modeling of land use impacts on biodiversity is considered a priority in life cycle
assessment (LCA). Many diverging approaches have been proposed in an expanding …