Title:
Impact Assessment Methodologies for Industrial Bio-based Systems
Author(s):
Rutz, D., Birgi, U.E., Janssen, R., Nachtergaele, P., Perez Hernandez, C., Junginger, M., Shen, L., Rondón Villabona, M.A., de Jong, M., Khan, M.Z., Weber-Blaschke, G., Ali, Z., Rodrigues, C., Freire, F., Pihkola, H., Toivanen, I., Cisse, A., Million, A.
Document(s):
Paper
Slide presentation
Abstract:
Organisations and countries worldwide have instituted policies and regulations to reduce the environmental impact and to increase the overall sustainability of products. Thanks to this push, many innovations and novel technologies are being developed to produce materials and goods which are based on biomass. To assess if these products are environmentally better than conventional products, life cycle assessments (LCA) are used. Results of these assessments enable to evaluate products which are under development or in the market already. A challenge, however, is that these assessments can be complicated, especially for products that are still under development, products that are based on so called low technology readiness levels (TRL). The EU-funded ESCIB project (2024-2027) aims to help the European bio-based economy by developing scientifically based assessment methodologies that allow faster and more accurate assessments of their value chains. Central to ESCIB's mission is to advance the scientific approach on life-cycle methodologies for sustainable assessments of bio-based systems at various technology-readiness levels (TRLs). This helps to further improve the sustainability of biobased products, to reduces potential negative impacts and to highlight the benefits of biobased products in comparison to fossil-based products.
Keywords:
bio-based products, sustainability, life cycle assessment (LCA), TRL, assessment methodologies
Topic:
Sustainability, Impacts, Policies and Systems Analysis
Subtopic:
Environmental impacts
Event:
34th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition
Session:
2CO.11.1
Pages:
236 - 239
ISBN:
978-88-89407-27-1
Paper DOI:
10.5071/34thEUBCE2026-2CO.11.1
Price:
FREE
