Online Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Training Course
Special Offer: We are currently offering 3 for the price of 2. Buy access for 3 individuals and the third place will be free.
Also 66.67% of all training course sales (ex. VAT) will be diverted to our Scaling Carbon Reduction Initiative (SCRI), initially towards updating the ICE Database (until June 2025).
Course Title: Introduction to life cycle assessment (LCA) training course (suitable for all sectors
Access: This course is available to take as an online video course. It is made up of 16 video recordings.
Objectives: This course is designed to give an essential overview of life cycle assessment. It will help you to interpret and evaluate LCA studies and to understand the strengths and weaknesses of LCA. This course will also allow you to progress onto a more intermediate level.
Summary:
- Spilt into 16 video modules – easier to fit around your schedule
- Delivered online, be trained from your office or home environment – it also means no travel or accommodation costs and a reduced carbon footprint
- Discounts for non-profits and charities
- On course completion a proof of training certificate
- You can pay online with a credit or debit card, or by bank transfer or cheque
Visual Content: This course focuses on learning through visual content, for example with the question below:
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Training Q: What is this? What causes it?
LCA Training Question – What is this? What causes it?
This is a real picture and the LCA course explains what it is, how its caused and how life cycle assessment fits into this. There are many other visual examples in this LCA training course.
Online Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Training Course
Content: This course is made up of 16 online access video modules. They cover key topics including:
- Background of life cycle assessment
- An introduction to LCA methods and standards
- The LCA framework: Life cycle assessment involves a 4 stage process. Involving goal and scope definition, inventory analysis, impact assessment, and interpretation
- Environmental indicators: Life cycle assessment results can include up to 20 different environmental indicators, such as global warming potential (carbon footprint), toxicity, eutrophication, acidification, water depletion, metal depletion…etc. We will provide an overview of what each of the main indicators means, how they happen and what types of impacts and damage they could cause. This part of the course uses a lot of engaging and visual content
- Data and tools: An overview of the main data sources and software packages. An introduction to data collection and primary and secondary data
- Fate modelling: You will be introduced to fate modelling
- Midpoint and endpoint modelling: You will be introduced to midpoint and endpoint modelling. This is an essential to understand when identifying the key environmental issues and interpreting results
- Interpreting results: There are several ways of presenting LCA results. We will provide some examples of LCA results to show how you need to take care in how results are presented and interpreted
- Case study results: We will use a case study to explore LCA results and the key points from this training course
Video Modules: See our list of the 16 video modules for this LCA course.
Training Course Format: Video recorded life cycle assessment course with over 4 hours of video recorded content split across 16 LCA training modules. There are also short optional exercises and a final multi choice test. This course can be counted towards Continued Professional Development (CPD) training hours.
Your trainer: You will be trained by Dr Craig Jones who is an experienced trainer. Craig has presented to audiences around the world, including at MIT, and has appeared in publications such as the Guardian, The Times, BBC Online, The Huffington Post, Bloomberg and more. Read more about Craig on his biography.
Level: This course is an introduction. It is suitable for those with no previous knowledge of life cycle assessment as well as those with just a basic background knowledge. This course is suitable for all sectors.
Prices: This course is available through the Circular Ecology Training Hub, providing access to all our video training content. To view our pricing structure please click here.
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Where can I find out more information?
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Testimonials
Here are a few testimonials from 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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