| Time | Title | Speaker | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:45 | Registration, coffee and croissants | ||
| 9:15 | Welcome and introduction into the topic | Matthias Meier | FiBL |
| Assessments of land use and land use change related impacts in LCA | [Chair: Rainer Zah] | Quantis | |
| 9:25 | UNEP-SETAC Life Cycle Initiative on the assessment of biodiversity impacts of land use in LCA DF61-01_Curran.pdf | Michael Curran | WSL |
| 9:55 | Land use impacts on biodiversity loss in LCA: A bottom-up approach including agricultural intensities and landscape structural diversity DF61-02_Meier.pdf | Matthias Meier | FiBL |
| 10:25 | Validation of LCA biodiversity impact assessment in agriculture across Europe – The example of SALCA biodiversity DF61-03_Jeanneret.pdf | Philippe Jeanneret | Agroscope |
| 10:45 | Coffee break | ||
| 11:15 | Biodiversity assessment of land use in the Natural Capital Protocol DF61-04_Vionnet.pdf | Samuel Vionnet | valuing nature |
| 11:35 | Life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) of soil degradation: Development of a new impact assessment method in LCA DF61-05_Stoessel.pdf | Franziska Stössel | ETH Zurich |
| 11:55 | Modelling soil organic carbon changes – Implications for LCA studies DF61-06_Prade.pdf | Thomas Prade | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences |
| Discussion: Land use impact assessment methods – complementarity and differences? | [Moderation: Rainer Zah] | Quantis | |
| 12:15 | Discussion | All referees | |
| 12:45 | Lunch break | ||
| Short presentations | [Chair: Matthias Meier] | FiBL | |
| 14:00 | First proposals for considering habitat fragmentation in Life Cycle Impact Assessment DF61-07_Larrey-Lassalle.pdf | Pyrène Larrey-Lassalle | Irstea |
| 14:10 | Hemeroby as an impact category indicator for the integration of land use and biodiversity into the Life Cycle (Impact) Assessment DF61-08_Busch.pdf | Mirjam Busch & Horst Fehrenbach | IFEU |
| 14:20 | Land use biodiversity assessment in LCA – the case of the Finnish forests DF61-09_Holma.pdf | Anne Holma | Finnish Environment Institute |
| 14:30 | Modelling biodiversity in fuzzy terms DF61-10_Lindner.pdf | Jan Paul Lindner | Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics |
| 14:40 | Assessing biodiversity impacts and benefits of sheep wool DF61-11_Escobedo.pdf | Eduardo Escobedo | RESP |
| Case studies on land use / land use change impacts in agricultural / forestry systems | [Chair: Matthias Meier] | ||
| 14:50 | Impact assessment methods for biodiversity and soil degradation: Challenges towards broad applicability in LCA DF61-12_Jungbluth.pdf | Niels Jungbluth | ESU services Ltd. |
| 15:10 | Natural Capital Valuation of a T-Shirt with focus on biodiversity impacts DF61-13_Zeller_Simonnin.pdf | Heinz Zeller (Hugo Boss) & Gregory Simonnin (Quantis) | Hugo Boss & Quantis |
| 15:30 | Coffee break | ||
| 15:50 | How to quantify soil quality impacts in LCA DF61-14_Zschokke.pdf | Mischa Zschokke | carbotech |
| 16:10 | Capturing the biodiversity benefits of responsible forestry practices in LCA DF61-15_Rossi.pdf | Vincent Rossi | Quantis |
| Panel discussion: How to bridge the gap between scientific challenges and implementation in practice? | Moderation: Gregory Simonnin | Quantis | |
| 16:30 | Panellists: | Michael Curran | WSL |
| Eduardo Escobedo | RESP | ||
| Matthias Meier | FiBL | ||
| Samuel Vionnet | valuing nature | ||
| Heinz Zeller | Hugo Boss | ||
| Wrap-up, announcements & farewell | |||
| 17:10 | Wrap-up and announcements | Rainer Zah | Quantis |
| 17:15 | Farewell |
DF 61 – How to assess impacts of land use on biodiversity and soil quality in LCA?
Dear colleagues with an interest in Life Cycle Assessment,
We cordially invite you to the 61st Discussion Forum on Life Cycle Assessment
The official language of this event is English
Assessments of land use related impacts on ecosystem resources covering biodiversity and soil production potential are still a difficult issue in life cycle assessment (LCA). Major challenges are that biodiversity and soil degradation need to be assessed within a specific bio-geographic context and that land use intensities need to be considered. While the real dynamics and complexity of ecosystem processes above and below ground require complex and data demanding models, LCA practitioners call for simple and easy to use assessment routines that are, however, prone to oversimplification. Impacts of land use on biodiversity and soil quality are a key issue for the food, feed, apparel, paper and bioenergy industries that are all based on agricultural and forestry-based products. On one hand, upcoming approaches like Natural Capital Valuation provide simplified assessments of biodiversity and soil quality impacts of land use changes. On the other hand, recent research activities have come up with more complex approaches that are not broadly applicable yet. Finally, the UNEP SETAC Life Cycle Initiative supports scientific harmonization activities in the assessment of biodiversity impacts of land use with the aim to provide a best practice environmental impact indicator applicable in life cycle assessment case studies and databases.
Finding balanced solutions that adequately represent ecosystem complexity and that are still relatively easily applicable will be key to improve informed decision making on the sustainability of agricultural and forestry-based products. The goal of this discussion forum is to present and discuss the state-of-the-art of methods for assessing land-use related impacts on ecosystems, the possibilities and limits of those approaches and the needs of the industry to integrate such methods.
We look forward to meeting you in Zürich
Rainer Zah, Quantis International AG
Matthias Meier, FiBL
Organizing Committee
Download: DF61-Programme_Impacts_of_Land_Use.pdf
Livestream / Videorecordings: Access to the livestreamlng was available at the day of the event (payment required).
Videos are available for free after DF 61 via this link: https://www.video.ethz.ch/events/lca/2016/spring/61st.html