Conference Agenda

Session

Session 2.22: LCA & Natural Capital: Driving Nature-Positive Outcomes

Time:

Thursday, 11/Sept/2025:

4:30pm - 6:00pm

Session Chair: Alexandra Evans, Vito, Belgium
Session Chair: Sun-Hea Hong, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Presentations

(15 minutes_S)

Streamlining Life Cycle Assessment and Natural Capital Accounting: Identifying Synergies and Challenges for Enhanced Sustainability Evaluation

Rafael Horn^1,3, Alexandra Evans², Andreas Gess³, Marina Sarralde⁵, Daniel Whitaker⁴, Sharon Stauffert³, Sun-Hea Hong³

¹Fraunhofer IBP, Germany; ²VITO; ³University of Stuttgart; ⁴IDEEA Group; ⁵Tecnalia

(15 minutes_S)

Midpoint characterization model for water consumption impacts on aquatic ecosystem: RESCUE model

Masaharu Motoshita¹, Kamrul Islam¹, Markus Berger², Anne-Marie Boulay³, Amandine Pastor⁴, Stephan Pfister⁵, Georg Seitfudem³, Francesca Verones⁶, Matthias Finkbeiner⁷

¹National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan; ²University of Twente; ³CIRAIG; ⁴INRAE; ⁵ETH Zurich; ⁶NTNU; ⁷Technische Universitaet Berlin

(15 minutes)

From LCA to Environmental Value Creation – The GUH Standard as a Tool for Natural Capital Management & Value Chain Empowerment

Jan Koepper, Anne L.G. Lange

Gemeinsam umweltneutral handeln e.V., Germany

(Short Oral + Poster)

NCA, LCA and spatial data – developing a harmonized data structure for corporate reporting on nature

Alexandra Evans¹, Bruno Smets¹, Karolien Peeters¹, Catarina Braga², Daniel Whitaker³, Jacob Bedford², Rafael Horn⁴

¹VITO; ²UNEP-WCMC; ³IDEEA Group; ⁴Fraunhofer IBP

(Short Oral + Poster)

Integrating biodiversity and ecosystem service footprints into LCA: leveraging insights from natural capital accounting

Sun-Hea Hong¹, Marina Isasa Sarralde², Sharon Stauffert¹, Andreas Gess¹, Rafael Horn³

¹University of Stuttgart IABP, Germany; ²Technalia Research and Innovation, Spain; ³Fraunhofer IBP, Germany

(6 minutes)

Science and Finance: Evaluating Biodiversity Metrics for Financing in Europe

Marina Dumont¹, An De Schryver¹, Imene Ben Rejeb-Mzah², Alexandre Vincent²

¹PRe Sustainability, Netherlands, The; ²BNP Paribas, Paris, France

(Short Oral + Poster)

Assessing the Spaciotemporal Degradation of Cameroon’s Mangroves: Drivers, Consequences and Mitigation: Case of Bekumou, Bakassi Peninsular for Test of Methodology

Godlove Ambe Neba, Barry Achi Ashu, Gracious Remyeh Kifon, Neculina Anyinkeng

University of Buea, Cameroon