Conference Agenda

Session

Session 2.01: Regional Sustainability via Life Cycle Instruments Part I

Time:

Thursday, 11/Sept/2025:

9:35am - 11:05am

Session Chair: Takunda Yeukai Chitaka, University of Bordeaux, France
Session Chair: Pia Wiche, EcoEd, Chile

Presentations

(15 minutes)

A methodology for assessing the sustainability of hydrogen valleys

Marco Serafini¹, Fabiana Romano², Alessandro Arrigoni¹, Eveline Weidner¹, Mariagiovvanna Minutillo³

¹European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Netherlands, The; ²Universitá degli studi di Napoli Parthenope; ³University of Salerno

(15 minutes)

Use of life cycle management to support regional sustainable development - experiences of selected European regions"

Fritz Balkau¹, Guido Sonnemann², Takunda Chitaka²

¹sustainable solutions, France; ²University of Bordeaux

(15 minutes)

Environmentally performant bio-economy supply chains from Macauba in Brazil requires proper management of the by-product pulp oil: A consequential LCA

Maria Luiza Mendonça de Barros Barbosa Gonçalves¹, Christhel Andrade Diaz², Guilherme José Maximo¹, Lorie Hamelin²

¹Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil; ²INRAE Toulouse, France

(15 minutes)

Mapping the Climate Profiles for the Decarbonization of Italian District Heating and Cooling Networks

Kevin Autelitano, Jacopo Famiglietti, Marcello Aprile, Mario Gualtiero Francesco Motta

Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Energia, Via Lambruschini, n. 6, 20156, Milan, Italy

(Short Oral + Poster)

Farm-scale and regional-scale use of renewable energy to replace diesel fuel

Maximilian Schüler¹, Xinyuan Wang², Wenxin Yang³

¹Technische Hochschule Lübeck, Germany; ²Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois; ³Master’s Energy, Civil Infrastructure and Climate, UC Berkeley

(Short Oral + Poster)

Supporting Regional Sustainability Goals: Comparative LCA of Vacation Rentals and Hotels

Giulio Maria Mercatali¹, Didier Beloin Saint-Pierre², Roland Hischier², Giorgio Baldinelli¹, Jacopo Sorani²

¹Department of Engineering, University of Perugia, Via G. Duranti n. 67, Perugia, 06125, Italy; ²Empa, Technology and Society Laboratory, Lerchenfeldstrasse 5, 9014 St. Gallen, Switzerland

(Short Oral + Poster)

Drinking Water Scarcity: Man-Made Pollutants in the Potomac River Basin, USA

Veronica M_Ngaling Tangiri

Prince William Soil and Water Conservation District, United States of America

(Short Oral + Poster)

Environmental Impact of Upper Cisokan Pumped Hydro Energy Storage in Indonesia's Energy Transition

Fakhri Nugraha¹, Febelyn Tria Reguyal²

¹Perusahaan Listrik Negara, Indonesia and The University of Auckland, New Zealand; ²The University of Auckland, New Zealand