Online Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Training Course
Course
An Introduction to Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
Suitable for all sectors.
Modules
This course comprises 16 video modules available for online access on the Circular Ecology Training Hub. The modules cover key topics, including:
Module 1 – Background to LCA
Module 2 – The LCA Framework
Including:
- Stages of LCA
- Goal and scope
- Boundaries
- Life cycle thinking and upstream burdens
- Comparing products and functional units
- Inventory analysis
- Process flow charts
- Data collection
- Life cycle inventories
- Impact assessment
- Interpretation
Module 3 – LCA Impact Categories – Acidification & Toxicity
Module 4 – Global Warming Potential & Carbon Footprinting
Module 5 – Eutrophication & Ozone Depletion
Module 6 – Particulate Matter Formation, Photochemical Oxidant Formation & Abiotic Depletion
Module 7 – Water Footprinting
Module 8 – Recap Exercise & Answers
Module 9 – Land Use Change & Ionising Radiation
Module 10 – LCA Method & Standards, A Brief Overview
- International standards on LCA
- LCA Method – introduction to allocation
- LCA Method – introduction to biogenic carbon storage
Module 11 – LCA Data
- Ecoinvent
- GaBi
- ELCD (ILCD)
- US LCI Database
- Others….
Module 12 – LCA Tools
- SimaPro
- GaBi
- Open LCA
- Others…
Module 13 – Interpreting LCA Results
- Characterised LCA results
- Normalised LCA results
- People emission equivalents
Module 14 – Interpreting LCA Results Continued
- Weighted LCA results
- Single score LCA results
- Midpoint and endpoint LCA results
- Fate modelling
Module 15 – LCA Case Study Results
Module 16 – Detailed LCA Case Study Results & Course Summary
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Testimonials
Here’s a sample of what learners are saying about our courses:
“For me it was perfect to see the video and do the test when I have time, so I really like this way of doing a course” – Bergman, Norway
“Thank you for an excellent review of the issues for carbon analysis” – Brad, USA
“Thank you very much again for the course. It was very rewarding for me.” – Marta, Slovakia
“Very useful intro – helped us realise that LCA offers some insights for us, but that actually we need to, for our purposes, learn how to model impacts around individual needs/behaviours and not only around one object’s impacts.” Janet, UK
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