Brightcon 2026, hackathon and courses

Industrial Ecology increasingly aims at connecting complementary assessment frameworks rather than limiting analysis to conventional Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). In this context, we propose a framework to assess what we define as intrinsic circularity, i.e., the direct circulation of physical flows through and across product systems (1).

The framework questions the conventional definition...

HIGHLIGHTS
• Calculating new material-related metrics: amount of manufactured material
• Automatic calculation based only on Life Cycle Inventories data through the implementation of an LCIA method in the Brightway framework
• Comparison with existing tools Relics and Edges
• Demonstration with simple examples and exploration of the ecoinvent database through this new...

Highlights

1. The development of 'time-explicit LCA' and indeed 'prospective LCA' requires further conceptual development to specify what such an LCA represents, with the development of a common understanding and vocabulary with which to characterise a given approach. We propose such conceptual contributions.
2. A product system in LCA represents some interconnected aspects of...

Highlights

• Integration of the edges Python library into the BONSAI open-source
  framework for spatialized LCIA.
• Demonstrates how exchange-based LCIA
  enables geographically explicit impact assessment beyond global
  averages.
• Case study: quantifying how French consumption drives
  water scarcity in producer regions worldwide. Fully reproducible,
  ...