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The bioeconomy is promoted as a concept that enables sustainable green growth by enabling the substitution of fossil resources with regenerative ones. The term encompasses several different visions. Depending on whom one asks, the bioeconomy promises either regional autarky, sufficiency within planetary boundaries, or climate-neutral global supply chains. With this work we aim to make those...

Authors: Timen M. Boeve and Søren Løkke
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Effective data management and data interpretation are essential prerequisites for conducting robust and decision-relevant Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) studies, particularly within large and complex organisations. This presentation draws on experiences from a PhD project in which an organisation-wide consequential LCA was conducted...

Assessing the environmental impacts of emerging products and using life cycle assessment (LCA) to support sustainable design requires close collaboration across supply chains and alignment of assessment methodologies across life cycle stages. Even when typical early-stage LCA challenges, such as limited data availability and low supply-chain transparency, are addressed, inconsistencies in...

Power-to-Gas technologies that convert CO₂ into renewable biomethane are attracting increasing interest as routes for long-term energy storage, carbon valorisation, and decarbonisation of the gas grid. Among them, electromethanogenesis, where electrotrophic methanogenic archaea reduce CO₂ to CH₄ at a biocathode driven by renewable electricity, is a promising but highly coupled...

Highlights and Discussion Points
- Facilitating a model-based integration of Life Cycle Assessments into early product development
- Supporting the transferability of the LCA method based on an open-source, Brightway-based software tool
- Incorporating uncertainties caused by lack of data and low system knowledge to prevent unaware design choices
- Providing a comprehensible way of...