EcoBalance 2022

Accepted presentations

Topics* (click each topic, then jump to the list of presentations)

* Topics are just for rough categorization of accepted presentations. These are not the session titles of each presentation. Detailed scientific program will be open later.

Carbon neutrality

  • Using CO2 as feedstock to decarbonize the global chemical industry: a feasible reality or an urban myth?
  • Detecting insecure supply chains lacking carbon neutral commitments
  • Life cycle assessment on forest resource utilization considering long-term carbon balance
  • Matching post-combustion carbon capture technologies in power and industrial sectors based on emission reduction potentials
  • Environmental impacts of global offshore wind energy development until 2040
  • Life cycle CO2 Emissions from Ammonia Power Generation
  • Decarbonization by green electricity: The challenges of double counting
  • Issues and Opportunities in Meeting Decarbonisation and Net Carbon Zero Goals in the Malaysian Palm Oil Industry through Sustainability Certification
  • Co-benefit / trade-off assessment of NH3 energy carrier and NOx recovery
  • Future metal production and associated greenhouse gas emissions with implication for climate goals
  • Scaling up Circular economy to catalyse decarbonization and reindustrialization: A prospective study for France
  • Study on Medium- to Long-term Scenarios for Achieving Net Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2050 in the Material Cycles and Waste Management Sector
  • Critical Materials and Decarbonization: The Economic and Policy Context of 'Appropriate" Material Availability
  • Just Energy-Resource Transitions to Clean Energy - Engagement and Evaluation
  • Analysis of CO2 calculation results and research on issues toward carbon neutrality of the event
  • Evaluation of atmospheric carbon dioxide balance associated with forest growth and utilization
  • Exploring low-cost pathways to achieve the 2050 decarbonisation goals of airlines

Sustainable Development Goals: SDGs

  • Metals industry’s involvement with the SDGs in their SDG reporting
  • Assessing the Social Dimension in Strategic Network Design for a Sustainable Development: The Case of Bioethanol Production in the EU
  • Linking the UN Sustainable Development Goals to product-level impact information
  • Comprehensive Evaluation Of The Utilization Of Bamboo Biomass In Kitakyushu City Considering The Nexus Structure Of SDGs
  • Results of a fact-finding survey on the sustainable diets and smart food services: a case of Japan

Sustainability management

  • Quo vadis LCA? Successful standardized, scientific method or misused and mainstreamed tool? A Review of cases in a decade between freedom of science, industrial innovation, marketing and compulsory reporting.
  • Distributed ledger technology for resource protection and circular economy
  • Semi-automated visualization method of sustainability scenarios using natural language processing
  • A case study on the automation of a scenario planning method
  • Design and development of data platform to accelerate regional system planning based on prospective LCA
  • Integrating Crop Data, Land Use Statistics, and a Resolved Multi-regional Input-output Table to Fully Regionalize ecoinvent
  • Data Foundation for Carbon Accounting and Decarbonization
  • Development of a common system to map the elementary flows (EF) lists from major LCA databases
  • Directing practices for technology developments with the aid of deductive LCA
  • Net Zero in 2050: implementation of a scalable digital tool for calculating high numbers of Product Carbon footprints in the Chemical Industry
  • Assessing the sustainability performance of entire product portfolio using PSA: Example from a specialty chemicals company
  • Scaling up LCA and LCC with ECOFACT
  • Social Analysis as module of sustainability assessments with SEEbalance®
  • Developing architecture for platform-based Circular Economy business: A case study of container reuse business
  • Circular design practices centered around civic participation: the case of Satsuma Future Commons in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan
  • Environmental effect estimation of mobile phone reuse businesses
  • Perspectives of evaluating product-service systems with life cycle assessment – a case study on power tool rental
  • Challenges and opportunities for circular fashion in Japan: outcomes from stakeholder workshop
  • CO2 Reduction Potential of Car Sharing Services Considering Used Car Market
  • The Impact of Consensus Building on Sustainability in Eco-Friendly Supply Chains
  • Survival of the fittest or the most efficient?
  • Relationship between profitability of recycling business of the lithium-ion battery from electric vehicles and decision-making of dismantling companies
  • New assessment method for companies’ ESG activities toward well-being society
  • Choosing between footprint and accountings GHG standards through the analysis of organization goals and standard’s perimeters : return of experience of analysis in aeronautic context.
  • From Waste Towards Carbon Neutrality: An Innovative Paradigm Shift to Material Flow Cost Accounting 2.0
  • Recursive calculation of scope-3 emissions in the supply chain with input-output analysis
  • GeoPolRisk: Current developments and future mainstreaming opportunities of a life cycle impact assessment method for the supply risk of abiotic resources
  • Investigation of fire accident caused by lithium-ion batteries in the disposal process and evaluation of countermeasures
  • AIST-MeRAM: a free tool embedded with toxicity test data and risk estimation methodologies for ecological risk assessment of chemical substances
  • Considering synthesis of chemicals in chemical alternative assessment
  • Cooperation across the value chain – an important condition for resource efficiency
  • How IoT helps to achieve sustainable supply chain management——A study based on two supply chains

Energy, resource & waste management

  • LC3SA framework: addressing circularity and criticality of materials in LCSA
  • Circularity Metrics in context of Circular Economy transition: A review and critical assessment of Material Circularity Indicator
  • SUSTAINABILITY AND CIRCULARITY
  • Production-Consumption-Waste Management Material Flow Analysis as a Tool for Circularity Measurement: Macadamia Products Plant
  • Environmental Impact Assessment of PEMFC for Residential Use Considering Regionality and Performance Drop
  • Thinking the future – End-of-Life Life Cycle Assessment of Fiber Reinforced Concrete
  • Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Fired Clay Bricks and Alternative Concrete Blocks Used in Bangladesh
  • Carbon Footprint Analysis of Construction Technologies in Japan
  • Carbon Handprint for Assessing the Positive Impacts of Constructing Low Carbon Buildings in Evolving Economies
  • Closed-loop recycling of steel products
  • A new approach for modelling primary mineral supply scenarios and associated environmental impacts
  • Future projections of global life-cycle mercury emissions under CO2 reduction target toward 2050
  • Production process improvements for niobium-based products
  • Evaluation of secondary aluminum cycles under automotive changes in China
  • Evaluation of energy reduction by the adoption of distributed recycling system using microwave: obsolete alkaline batteries in Japan as a case study
  • Boron mining in Turkey: An overview of the environmental impacts using MFA, LCA and abiotic depletion indicator adaptation
  • Life Cycle Assessment and Carbon Footprint for deep sea mining of polymetallic nodules
  • Gold production and mercury consumption from artisanal and small-scale mining
  • Life Cycle Assessment of Copper Tailings Reprocessing: Collaborative, prospective approach
  • Prospective life cycle assessment of mineral and metal recycling from waste incineration slag
  • Integrate the impact of marine plastic debris on carbon sequestration into life cycle impact assessment
  • Achievable circularity of plastic material flows and related environmental benefits
  • Recycled plastic packaging from the Dutch food sector pollutes Asian oceans
  • Designing the future resource circulation system of plastics in line with changes in the structure of the arterial industries towards decarbonization
  • Integrated Assessment of Environmental, Economic, and Social Impacts of Waste Plastic Recycling in Japan
  • Identifying flow of aluminum alloy to aluminum alloy recycling through end-use products using matrix optimization
  • Systematic synthesis of mixed waste plastic sorting scenarios
  • Pre-processing of electronic waste: case study of a facility in Canada
  • Evaluation method of recycled content and classification of scraps for materials
  • A first estimate of electronic waste in Canada
  • Energy Service Concept Design for Spanning Boundaries within Energy Auditing in Asia: An Outcome-Oriented Perspective
  • Life cycle assessment for solar panel recycling considering the resources of glass
  • Analysis of the effect of load leveling on the energy supply function by waste incineration facility
  • LCA evaluation of Freon Reclamation and Destruction
  • International trade in mercury and its uncontrolled risk
  • System development of Resource Logistics toward minimizing supply chain risks of mineral resources
  • A framework for modelling transport modal shifts in relation to planetary boundaries and the impacts of battery mineral supply
  • Biomass-based plastics strategies based on material characteristics, product application, and recycling methods
  • The Role of Urban Strubtures on the CO₂ Emissions
  • Natural Resource Use in West Asia: Status and Trends of Environmental Impacts using enhanced MRIO
  • Consumption patterns of primary and secondary steel resources based on market share of steel in different economic conditions
  • Nationwide Waste Footprint using the Japanese Input-Output Table and Impact Assessment Method
  • Quantifying the linkage between fatalities from tailings dam failures and automobile industry activities
  • Mercury Legacy: Use, Trade, and Anthropogenic emission
  • Evaluation of secondary aluminum cycles under automotive changes in China
  • Comparison of the environmental performance of small to medium scale sewage treatment plants in south-central Chile
  • Carbon-circularity-based evaluation of recycling process with dynamic MFA approach
  • Vanadium redox flow battery to support the use of renewable energy in stationary applications
  • Digital WEEE Manifest as a Potential Tool for WEEE Management: Case study of Thailand
  • Comparative analysis of environmental impacts for Fenton-based wastewater treatment processes
  • A Shifting Paradigm with Life Cycle Thinking for Material Flows Analysis to Atmospheric Aerosol Loading
  • Can introduction of PVC de-chlorination technology bring circularity benefits? - An analysis using a multi-objective, multi-regional technology choice model
  • Comparative LCA of wood waste treatments - A case in Taiwan
  • Dynamic substance flow analysis of indium in Japan
  • Oil Price Pressure on the Japanese economy: An Unit Structure Analysis
  • Consideration of nitrogen balance between Input and output flow in IDEA
  • Feasibility of applying leachate treatment equipment from final disposal sites to methane fermentation facilities after completion of landfill disposal
  • Life Cycle Assessment of light rare earth chlorides in China
  • Copper-smelting-related mercury emissions reduced by promoting recycling and introducing countermeasure technology in major copper-smelting countries
  • Evaluating power generation efficiency of photovoltaic power plants using the generic DEA

Community, education, and communication

  • Climate change communication through narrative
  • Measuring Sustainability Education Impact through Handprints
  • Teaching Life Cycle Assessment in Higher Education - Insights from a global study
  • Feasibility study of Kawasaki city contributing to citizens' change of environmentally conscious behavior
  • Development of Life Cycle Thinking-based Environmental Education Program for Childcare Workers
  • Agent-based modeling of consumer behavior and product circulation for ex-ante assessment of emerging circular economy strategies
  • Consumption value of second hand products: Using transaction data from the online flea market platform
  • Method for assessing the environmental impact of daily food consumption habits: Study on the consumption of land-based protein sources in Japan
  • Holistic sustainability evaluation framework cognizant of demographics and behaviour
  • A scenario analysis for exploring the potential for achieving carbon neutrality in Japan’s household sector
  • Evaluating resource use reduction effects of residence-related 3R behaviors
  • Estimation of telework efficacy rate during COVID-19 Pandemic considering time-series changes in human behavior rule
  • Reuse, repair, recycle, or dead storage? Canadian consumers’ behavior towards end-of-life electronics
  • Understanding public acceptance of energy harvesting technology from already existing radioactive waste
  • Perceived air quality, socio-economic characteristics, and willingness to pay for improved air quality by installing new energy buses
  • Household Carbon Footprint Inequality in Vietnam: An Input-Output Analysis
  • Regional carbon footprints of EU households in 2010 and 2015
  • Analyzing the differences in household carbon footprints across age generations in the US
  • The Environmental Footprints of Indonesian Provinces
  • Analysis of Lifestyle Carbon Footprint reduction measures towards the 1.5º C target in Brasilia, Brazil
  • Effects of showing volunteer-related movies on children's voluntary attitudes and behavior
  • Integrated Analysis of Overseas Global Environmental Impacts Induced by Japanese Food Production Activities -Proposal for Production and Distribution System Transformation-
  • Design for fostering life cycle thinking through a speculative scenario picture book about mending with mycelium in a local circular network
  • A proposal of multiple indexes in vegetable consumption flow in terms of environmental impacts and nutrition
  • Carbon Footprint for Outdoor sports Events
  • Environmental and Social Impact Assessment of Cultural Contents Considering the Economic Ripple Effect of Visits to Drama Location
  • Sectoral Similarity Analysis of Production Technologies and Lifestyles of Nations
  • The Carbon Footprint of Kishiwada Danjiri Festival
  • Effects of Environmental Labels for Packaging on Consumer Behavior
  • Evaluating carbon inequality by household type across prefectures in Japan

Policy, market, and social systems

  • Cradle-to-Grave Carbon Footprint of Lithium-Ion Batteries: Impact of 1st and 2nd Life Use Phases
  • Scenario analysis for future development of electrical vehicles in Taiwan
  • Comparing approaches to certification and sustainability assessments of minerals used in batteries
  • Qualifying CO2 emissions reduction of Vehicle to X using life-cycle assessment.
  • Estimation for vehicle LCA considering another way to use
  • Assessing municipal action CO2 impacts – direct vs system wide approaches
  • What countries induce the world asbestos flow? : A multi-regional input-output approach
  • The Environmental Footprint methods: history, state of the art, future developments
  • LCA Implementation in Policy: National Adoption of Life Cycle Assessment in Indonesia
  • The role of the distance-to-target weighting method in life cycle assessment: A case study of membrane capacitive deionization (MCDI)
  • Floating Urban Development for Sustainable Coastal Communities
  • Alternative Urban Water-Energy-Waste Nexus Options – Sustainable Assessment in an Existing Settlement
  • Estimation of Life Cycle CO2 Emission and Analysis of Factors Associated with Medium-Capacity Passenger Transport Systems
  • Quantifying greenhouse gases emission from buildings and vehicles in redeveloped areas under the transit-oriented development strategy: a case study in Taipei City, Taiwan
  • TOWARD SUSTAINABILITY: COMPARATIVE LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK OF GREEN ROAD PAVEMENT USING INDUSTRIAL BY-PRODUCTS AS ALTERNATIVE MATERIALS
  • A methodology for assessing mobility revolution with low carbonization
  • Policy Driven Compact Cities: a literature review on the effect of compact city on carbon emissions
  • Association of Air Pollution and Meteorological Variables with COVID-19 pandemic event in DKI Jakarta
  • Participation model in Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) Case Study of Ban Klong Municipality
  • Global Supply-chain Network Analysis for Environmentally-important Shipping Routes and Ports
  • A life cycle assessment of electric and conventional motorcycles in Taiwan
  • Practice and evaluation of the circular economy of industry-government-academia-industry collaboration in Osaki Town.

Applications, business practices, and emerging technologies

  • Analysis of nitrogen flows in wastes in the urban environment of Tokyo
  • Resource intensity of the transportation system considering the infrastructure development: Japan as a case study
  • Structural decomposition analysis of changes in South Korea’s industrial hazardous waste generation
  • Regional freshwater overconsumption induced by the agricultural crop production in a highly dense population setting
  • Life Cycle Assessment of Coal: from Mining to Combustion
  • Post-Consumer Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Waste Management in Thailand
  • An input-output study on the LLDPE plastic recycling process in Malaysia
  • Life-cycle environmental performance of sludge anaerobic digestion and land application under different management practices
  • ESTIMATION OF GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS FROM WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS: A CASE STUDY OF ULAANBAATAR, MONGOLIA
  • Modeling the effect of improving sewage disposal rate on ecological health for aquatic organism: A case study Gunma prefecture, Japan
  • Life Cycle Assessment of Sustainable Organic Waste Treatment in Cimahi Indonesia
  • Analysis on environmental compatibility and economic feasibility of the ground source heat pump in tropical Asia regarding the lifecycle aspects: a case study in Bangkok, Thailand
  • Energy Service Concept Design for Spanning Boundaries within Energy Auditing in Asia: A Process-Oriented Perspective
  • Life cycle assessment of recycling of polymer-bonded magnets in supercritical hydrothermal reactor
  • A system analysis of the impurity removal on a bio-hydrogen production system using granulated neutralized sediment as adsorbent
  • A life cycle design for FC systems in consideration of Pt catalyst degradation in practical small applications
  • Identification of High-Environmental Impact Processes in Oil and Gas Upstream Industry Through Life Cycle Assessment: Case of Borneo, Indonesia
  • Assessing the Fuel Potential of Fecal Sludge and Coal Mixtures
  • A human toxicity assessment in LCA applying a risk-based approach for chemicals
  • Environmental Impact Assessment of Direct Air Capture with biogas power plant
  • A new H2 storage scheme for a fuel cell assisted bicycle in uses of exhaust gas and insulator coating
  • Latest practices and issues with avoided greenhouse gas emissions by ICT contributing to Green Transformation
  • Comparison of Disassembly and Assembly Works using Optical Motion Capture for Circular Economy
  • A Concurrent Technology Development and Life Cycle Assessment of Lithium-Sulfur Battery
  • A cradle-to-gate greenhouse gases emission perspective for assessment of CCU technologies - Comparison of process options in non-reductive CO2 utilization for poly-carbonate diol production
  • Web scraping approach for secondary data collection in life cycle assessment and life cycle cost analysis
  • Developing Product Lifetimes Information System
  • Investigating power generation efficiency of PV power plants in Japan focusing on new market entrants
  • LCA Experts Training Graduate Program Supported by the Korean Government

Products, services, and business model innovation

  • Life cycle assessment of plasma-assisted green ammonia production for distributed fertilizer supply
  • Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Precision Agriculture Technologies – A Case Study of Crop Production in Austria
  • Estimating regional distribution of greenhouse gas emissions from paddy rice production using farm household surveys: The case study in the Philippines
  • Towards Environmentally Sustainable Aquaculture: Investigation on The Environmental Impact of The Pearl Oyster Farming Using Life Cycle Assessment
  • Beyond recycling – using LCA to support emerging technology development and benchmarking
  • Environmental trade-offs of decarbonisation pathways for domestic water heating
  • Towards sustainable nitrogen use: the launch of inter- and trans-disciplinary research
  • Proposal and verification of global comparison framework of Eco-industrial parks
  • Time series analysis of capital-embodied material footprint in Japan towards a material flow management in a carbon-neutral society
  • Predicting conservation risks of global agricultural production and consumption
  • Development of National Baseline for Food Waste and use of LCA for conducting hot spot analysis of food waste reduction opportunities.
  • A Follow-up Study of the Attitudes of Middle School Students toward Composting and Food Waste
  • Considering a practical approach that drives consumer behavior change by providing carbon footprint information of food
  • Environmental consequences of ceasing dairy production
  • Supporting technology developers to upscale rare-earth-magnet recycling systems for sustainability
  • Multifaceted approach to achieve increased polyester textile monomer recycling with reduced GHG emissions
  • Closing the Silicon Loop: A Lifecycle Environmental Implication of Upcycling Japan’s Solar Panel Wastes into Next-Generation Thin-Film Silicon Solar PV Cells
  • The Development of MFCA into Product Design and Process Improvement on Resource and Energy Efficiencies, as MFCM (Material Flow Cost Management)
  • Ex ante Life Cycle Assessment of Synthetic Talc Production based on Supercritical Hydrothermal Flow Process
  • Air conditioning energy analysis using big data
  • Environmental and Social Impacts assessment caused by the Growing Demand for Electric Vehicles
  • Analyzing variable factors of water supply-demand balances derived from food production and consumption
  • Factor Decomposition Analysis of Changes in CO2 Emissions from Container Operating Companies
  • QUANTIFICATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS ASSOCIATED WITH HUMAN LABOUR
  • Environmental Impact Assessment for Polyester T-shirts -Prospective LCA for Chemical Recycling
  • Environmental performance of Komatsuna in use of natural impurities adsorbent
  • Evaluating the Environmental Performance of Silver Nanoparticles Syntheses
  • Modelling product loss within the packaging sector
  • Mitigating fossil energy consumption in protected horticulture: Life cycle assessment of a water heat pump system for strawberry production
  • Modeling the relationship between life cycle environmental impacts of ripened peach and food loss reduction induced by transportation packaging
  • Economic and environmental efficiency analysis of medical sector in Japan
  • Toward Energy and Resource Efficient Manufacturing
  • Carbon footprint analysis of food packaging in Brasilia, Brazil
  • Greenhouse Gas Emission and Reduction due to Rice Husks Biochar Application: the Impact of Capital Goods Production
  • Carbon Footprint of stationary type Water server
  • Analyzing the Carbon Foot Print of IT display products
  • Life cycle assessment of alcoholic beverage produced by highly refined Japanese rice
  • Life Cycle Assessment of Imported Jackets
  • Evaluation of greenhouse gas emissions from bagasse-derived clothing
  • Efficient utilization of palm oil residue as material / energy products

Methodologies for sustainability assessment

  • Value chain creation of e-waste from solar products by extending their life cycle through repair, recovery and recycling in displacement settings.
  • Resource Efficiency Account with considering the quality of circulated material
  • Analysis of model selection for electrical and electronic equipment based on lifespan and breakeven point
  • Ecodesign of EEE : optimizing circularity by integrating recycled plastics from WEEE
  • Evaluation framework of environmental policies considering its effects on product lifetime
  • Assessment of the Environmental Impact for OLED TV Module using LCA
  • Environmental impacts of cosmetic waste: a life cycle assessment approach
  • LCA as a Tool for Innovation: How to Leverage LCA to Accelerate a Sustainable-Tech Startup
  • Integrating Ecodesign approach in high valued materials & processes TRL Referential: the experience of an aeronautical actor.
  • A life cycle assessment modelling approach: Identifying hotspots and improvement opportunities for a recyclable multi-material design of automotive lightweight structures
  • Spatially explicit characterization factors for impacts of nitrogen emissions on biodiversity
  • Development of Ecosystem Service Impact Pathways and Endpoints in LCA
  • Dietary impacts on human health for food LCAs
  • Marine invasions in life cycle assessment: Towards a global impact assessment
  • Development of Thai Weighting Factors in LCIA Using Conjoint Analysis
  • Visualization of the uncertainty in CO2 emission intensity caused by the price homogeneity assumption in the input-output table.
  • A marginal extraction analysis for green supply chain restructuring
  • Drivers of greenhouse gas emissions in Kenyan industries by resource-consuming countries: An input-output model approach
  • Carbon Footprint Analysis Considering Production Activities of Informal Sector: A case study of India
  • The devil is in the details: Disaggregating agricultural trade in an existing input-output database for assessing water-related impacts
  • Even LCA-based Absolute Environmental Sustainability Assessment is relative
  • Introducing a multi-level approach for operationalising Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment
  • Global Commons Stewardship Index: Safeguarding the Shared Resources of the Planet
  • Novel SLCA method to overview more-good and less-bad social impacts
  • Determinants of changes in footprints of crucial environmental indicators for global commons stewardship in China
  • The development of LCIA methodology and damage factors for biodiversity loss with extended impact categories.
  • Simultaneous propagation of uncertainty related to the choice of partitioning methods for allocation of all multifunctional processes in ecoinvent 3.8
  • Biodiversity damage assessment integrating carbon and land footprint
  • Safe by Design in product development through combining risk assessment and life cycle assessment
  • A framework of environmental risk analysis of chemical accident-induced atmospheric pollution
  • The development of LCIA methodology and damage factors for biodiversity loss with extended impact categories.
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