LCM 2025
The 12th International Conference on
Life Cycle Management
9th - 12th September 2025 | Palermo, Italy
Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
Date: Thursday, 11/Sept/2025 | |
8:30am - 9:30am | Keynotes 8 and 9 Mauro Cordella, European Commission - Life Cycle Assessment and Environmental Footprint methods in EU policies: past, present and future Archana Datta, UNEP Life Cycle Initiative - Building a Global Platform for Life Cycle Data, Methods, and Capacity |
9:35am - 11:05am | Session 2.01: Regional Sustainability via Life Cycle Instruments Part I Session Chair: Takunda Yeukai Chitaka, University of Bordeaux, France Session Chair: Pia Wiche, EcoEd, Chile |
9:35am - 11:05am | Session 2.02: Pathways to Net-Zero: Industrial Decarbonization & Green Energy Part II Session Chair: Nele De Belie, Ghent University, Belgium Session Chair: Pascal Di Croce, EuLA, Belgium |
9:35am - 11:05am | Session 2.03: Life Cycle Metrics for industry and policymakers: From Innovation to Integration II Session Chair: Luca Zampori, PRé Sustainability, Netherlands, The Session Chair: An De Schryver, PRé sustainability, Netherlands, The |
9:35am - 11:05am | Session 2.04: Nutritional LCA for Sustainable Agri-Food Management Part I Session Chair: Silvia Zingale, Agroscope, Switzerland Session Chair: Gianluca De Nardi, EcorNaturaSì Spa, Italy |
9:35am - 11:05am | Session 2.05: Advancing Polymer Recycling: Methods & Policy for a Sustainable Transition Session Chair: Paola Federica Albizzati, Joint Research Centre - European Commission, Spain Session Chair: Carlo Brondi, CNR, Italy |
9:35am - 11:05am | Session 2.06: Methodologies and Tools for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Value Chains Part I Session Chair: Andrea Di Maria, University of Liege, Belgium Session Chair: Olubukola Olumuyiwa Tokede, Deakin University, Australia, Australia |
11:05am - 11:30am | CB3: Coffee break |
11:30am - 1:00pm | Session 2.07: Social Sustainability: Data & Method Advancements Part II Session Chair: Manuela D'Eusanio, Università degli Studi "G.d'Annunzio" di Chieti-Pescara, Italy Session Chair: Isabel Susan Wolf, TU Berlin, Germany |
11:30am - 1:00pm | Session 2.08: Sustainable mobility solutions Part II Session Chair: Katharina Gompf, BMW Group, Germany Session Chair: Tobias Viere, Pforzheim University, Germany |
11:30am - 1:00pm | Session 2.09: LCA in Policy: Frameworks, Compliance & Placement Part II Session Chair: Diego Iribarren, IMDEA Energy, Spain Session Chair: Antonio Valente, ecoinvent, Switzerland |
11:30am - 1:00pm | Session 2.10: LCSA advancements and implementation in building Part I Session Chair: Matthias Fischer, Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP, Germany Session Chair: Jana Gerta Backes, Meo Carbon Solutions GmbH, Germany |
11:30am - 1:00pm | Session 2.11: Mass Balance Chain of Custody and LCA methodology and practices Session Chair: Markus Berger, University of Twente, Netherlands, The Session Chair: Guy Castelan, PlasticsEurope, Belgium |
11:30am - 1:00pm | Session 2.12: Policy Coherence: Tools and best practices for an efficient and effective sustainable transition Session Chair: LAURA GARCIA HERRERO, EC - JRC, Italy Session Chair: Martina Orefice, Joint Research Centre, Italy |
1:00pm - 2:00pm | Side Event 7: Life Cycle Initiative 9th General Assembly 2025 Location: Aula Magna Organized by UNEP |
1:00pm - 2:30pm | LP2: Lunch & Poster |
2:30pm - 4:00pm | Session 2.13: Dynamic and Prospective LCA Part I Session Chair: Jessica Hanafi, Life Cycle Indonesia, Indonesia Session Chair: Rose Nangah Mankaa, INaB RWTH Aachen University, Germany |
2:30pm - 4:00pm | Session 2.14: LCA & LCM for Improved Energy Decision-Making Part II Session Chair: Luka Smajila, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Session Chair: Ketan Vaidya, ex-Northvolt AB, Sweden |
2:30pm - 4:00pm | Session 2.15: Using LCSA for Industry Decision-Making Part I Session Chair: Nils Jäger, thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG, Germany Session Chair: Julian Suer, thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG, Germany |
2:30pm - 4:00pm | Session 2.16: Boosting LCM with AI, Machine Learning & Data Science Tools Session Chair: Antonino Marvuglia, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Session Chair: Peter Rudolf Hans Saling, BASF SE, Germany |
2:30pm - 4:00pm | Session 2.17: Engineering Composites with LCA-Oriented Methods Session Chair: Tobias Viere, Pforzheim University, Germany Session Chair: Davide Bonaffini, Hitachi Rail, Italy |
2:30pm - 4:00pm | Session 2.18: Biogenic Carbon: Challenges of Modelling & Accounting in LCA Session Chair: Martin Baitz, Sphera Solutions GmbH, Germany Session Chair: Mateo Saavedra del Oso, Stora Enso, Finland |
4:10pm - 4:30pm | CB4: Coffee break |
4:30pm - 6:00pm | Session 2.19: Evaluations of Circular and Low Carbon Plastic Value Chains towards sustainability Part II Session Chair: Christian Krüger, BASF, Germany Session Chair: Tomas Ekvall, Tomas Ekvall Research, Review & Assessment (TERRA), Sweden |
4:30pm - 6:00pm | Session 2.20: Life Cycle Based Tools and Data Science Interactions Part II Session Chair: Monia Niero, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy Session Chair: Alessandro Manzardo, University of Padova, Italy |
4:30pm - 6:00pm | Session 2.21: Digital Product Passport: Information Access for Sustainable Consumption Session Chair: Lucyna Lekawska-Andrinopoulou, Institute for Communication and Computer Systems, Greece Session Chair: Kostas Chatziioanou, ICCS, Greece |
4:30pm - 6:00pm | Session 2.22: LCA & Natural Capital: Driving Nature-Positive Outcomes Session Chair: Alexandra Evans, Vito, Belgium Session Chair: Sun-Hea Hong, University of Stuttgart, Germany |
4:30pm - 6:00pm | Session 2.23: Filling the Gaps in Life Cycle Assessments of Upstream Materials for the Sustainable Deployment of Battery Ecosystems Session Chair: Sophia Roy, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada Session Chair: Luka Smajila, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden |
4:30pm - 6:00pm | Session 2.24: LCSA for decision making in energy systems Session Chair: Maurizio Cellura, Università di Palermo, Italy Session Chair: Olubukola Olumuyiwa Tokede, Deakin University, Australia, Australia |
6:00pm - 7:00pm | Side Event 10: Sustainable circular economy for batteries in Europe Location: Room 12 Organized by HIQ-LCA |
6:00pm - 7:00pm | Side Event 8: Clean Leap: verifying sustainable business practices Location: Room 1 Organized by CONFESS |
6:00pm - 7:00pm | Side Event 9: LCA Automation in the Chemical Industry: Challenges, Learnings, and outlook from the implementation of a new Sphera IT solution at SABIC Location: Room 11 Organized by Sphera |
8:00pm - 11:59pm | CD: Conference Dinner |