Descrizione del progetto
Una transizione verde nelle industrie europee
Con l’UE che incrementa i propri obiettivi climatici, la necessità di ridurre le emissioni di gas serra spinge a passare dai sistemi a base fossile a quelli a base biologica. In quest’ottica, il progetto LCA4BIO, finanziato dall’UE, intende sviluppare metodologie avanzate per valutare gli impatti ambientali e la circolarità dei sistemi a base biologica. In particolare, il progetto intende facilitare la transizione verde delle industrie europee, garantendo un confronto rigoroso tra le tecnologie a base biologica emergenti e i sistemi di mercato esistenti. Attraverso il coinvolgimento delle parti interessate e la co-creazione, il progetto prevede di promuovere la crescita dei settori a base biologica europei, riducendo le emissioni e sostenendo la circolarità. LCA4BIO aprirà la strada a un paesaggio industriale più verde e sostenibile.
Obiettivo
EU’s Climate Target Plan goals are compelling all the economic sectors to drastically reduce GHG emissions. As a result, a global shift from fossil-based feedstocks and processes to bio-based systems is being gradually carried out due to the depletion and significant environmental impacts of fossil resources.
To facilitate the green transition of the European industry, a more applicable and realistic environmental assessment of bio-based systems is being demanded as a way to demonstrate the improved performance of bio-based products versus its unsustainable counterparts, and identify the best available technologies, to promote the sustainability of industrial procedures and fulfil the zero-pollution objectives encouraged by the European Commission.
In this context, the LCA4BIO project aims at developing and validating a new set of improved, harmonized, precise, reliable and applicable assessment methodologies to properly evaluate environmental impacts and circularity in bio-based systems, that can be applied in certification schemes, thus enabling the international trade of this type of products. Additionally, LCA4BIO will address the development of new prospective life cycle assessment methodologies, considering up-scaling and future scenarios via Integrated Assessment Models with manageable levels of uncertainty, for an accurate comparison between potential environmental impacts of emerging bio-based technologies and current systems in the market. To do that, different stakeholders in the bioeconomy value chain will be involved in a co-creation process that will permit to consider their requirements, and test the adequateness of the methodologies developed by the LCA4BIO partners.
The new approaches developed in LCA4BIO are expected to stimulate the growth of the European bio-based sectors that could lead to reduce the GHG emissions and other environmental impacts, and promote circularity processes along the economy and society.
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinatore
28021 Madrid
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L’organizzazione si è definita una PMI (piccola e media impresa) al momento della firma dell’accordo di sovvenzione.