{"id":5188,"date":"2026-06-25T11:50:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.environnementhumanitaire.org\/?p=5188"},"modified":"2026-06-25T11:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:51:10","slug":"webinar-simplifying-lca-findings-for-procurement-and-operations-in-the-humanitarian-sector-caa-30-06-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.environnementhumanitaire.org\/en\/webinar-simplifying-lca-findings-for-procurement-and-operations-in-the-humanitarian-sector-caa-30-06-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Webinar \u2013 Simplifying LCA findings for procurement and operations in the humanitarian sector, CAA, 30\/06\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Simplifying LCA findings for procurement and operations in the humanitarian sector<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Humanitarian actors and suppliers have increasingly been&nbsp;<strong>conducting life cycle assessments<\/strong>&nbsp;of products to&nbsp;<strong>identify&nbsp;levers to reduce environmental impacts<\/strong>, compare products, and improve emission factors. Yet, different methodologies and scopes hinder comparability and knowledge transfer.&nbsp;Output documents are&nbsp;also&nbsp;often difficult to understand for practitioners that lack the&nbsp;expertise&nbsp;and time to take a deep dive on LCA results.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This&nbsp;webinar&nbsp;will&nbsp;explore&nbsp;<strong>the approach to the latest life cycle assessment project conducted by the Climate Action Accelerator<\/strong>,&nbsp;made possible&nbsp;with the support of the French Crisis and Support Centre&nbsp;(CDCS).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To make LCA data available to the&nbsp;humanitarian&nbsp;sector in an efficient manner, the Climate Action Accelerator is&nbsp;currently&nbsp;developing an approach&nbsp;to&nbsp;<strong>assessing&nbsp;climate, environmental, and human health&nbsp;hotspots<\/strong>&nbsp;for a set of&nbsp;<strong>products&nbsp;with&nbsp;similar&nbsp;impact&nbsp;profiles<\/strong>.&nbsp;Instead of performing individual LCAs,&nbsp;impact hotspots will be&nbsp;identified&nbsp;for a set of products, such as single-use plastic items.&nbsp;This&nbsp;approach provides&nbsp;enough information&nbsp;for&nbsp;practitioners to act on the main levers&nbsp;to reduce climate, environmental, and human health impacts.&nbsp;It also proves&nbsp;<strong>pragmatic and efficient<\/strong>, as&nbsp;it avoids&nbsp;having to perform LCAs for a multitude of products,&nbsp;while&nbsp;easing&nbsp;the burden to produce&nbsp;new&nbsp;LCAs by humanitarian organisations and suppliers,&nbsp;given that&nbsp;all results will be made available in&nbsp;open access.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For organisations that wish to ask for LCA data from their suppliers&nbsp;or that&nbsp;would like&nbsp;to contribute to the growing knowledge base of LCA data in the sector, the project&nbsp;also developed a&nbsp;draft sector-wide LCA framework to support the harmonisation of LCA results and improving comparability of results.&nbsp;The framework comes with&nbsp;explanations for practitioners&nbsp;that contract consultants to conduct LCAs.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The presentations will be followed by a Q&amp;A session.&nbsp;Join us for this insightful discussion on&nbsp;how to make life cycle assessments accessible for practitioners and provide your&nbsp;feedback to the project approach.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>When and where<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udcc6 Tuesday 30 June 2026 | 12:30-13:30 CEST (Geneva time)<br>\ud83d\udcbb Online on Zoom<br>Language: The webinar will be conducted in English and translated simultaneously into French via a Zoom plug-in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simplifying LCA findings for procurement and operations in the humanitarian sector Humanitarian actors and suppliers have increasingly been&nbsp;conducting life cycle assessments&nbsp;of products to&nbsp;identify&nbsp;levers to reduce environmental impacts, compare products, and improve emission factors. Yet, different methodologies and scopes hinder comparability and knowledge transfer.&nbsp;Output documents are&nbsp;also&nbsp;often difficult to understand for practitioners that lack the&nbsp;expertise&nbsp;and time to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[],"thematique":[163],"structure":[196],"class_list":["post-5188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evenement","thematique-achats-durables","structure-climate-action-accelerator-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.environnementhumanitaire.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.environnementhumanitaire.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.environnementhumanitaire.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.environnementhumanitaire.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.environnementhumanitaire.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.environnementhumanitaire.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5189,"href":"https:\/\/www.environnementhumanitaire.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188\/revisions\/5189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.environnementhumanitaire.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.environnementhumanitaire.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.environnementhumanitaire.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5188"},{"taxonomy":"thematique","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.environnementhumanitaire.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thematique?post=5188"},{"taxonomy":"structure","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.environnementhumanitaire.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/structure?post=5188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}