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Introduction to Life Cycle Assessment

The aim of this training is to introduce the basics of Life Cycle Assessment.

Topics
The main topics in this training are:

  • Why LCA?
  • Goal & Scope
    • Functional Unit
    • Allocation
  • Life Cycle Inventory
    • Types of data
    • Finding data
    • Gathering data
  • Impact assessment
    • Characterization, damage assessment, normalization, weighting
    • Different methodologies
  • Interpretation
    • Data Quality and Uncertainty
  • Life Cycle Management
  • What’s next in LCA?

Trainer
The trainer will be one of our consulting staff having extensive experience conducting advanced LCA projects in a variety of industries.

Who should attend
Anyone interested in understanding more about life cycle assessment, especially as described in the ISO 14040 and 14044 standards will benefit from this course.

Conditions

The maximum number of trainees for each class is 10.

EarthShift reserves the right to make changes in the program and the trainers or to cancel the training if enrolment criteria are not met or when conditions beyond its control prevail. In such cases, every effort will be made to contact each trainee and an alternative will be offered. If a training is not held at all for any reason EarthShift is limited to refund of the training fee only.

Further information
If you have any questions, please contact us.

 
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