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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) plays a key role in evaluating companies' environmental impacts. However, its integration with regulatory requirements—particularly in the agri-food and bioeconomy sectors—remains a significant challenge. Regarding biodiversity, for example, while current methodologies consider direct uses such as land occupation and transformation, as well as indirect drivers (climate, ecotoxicity, eutrophication, etc.), they still struggle to capture the full range of pressures exerted on terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems. Phenomena such as habitat fragmentation, complex pollution, resource overexploitation, and the alteration of ecological functions require more refined and tailored methodological approaches.
With the accelerating loss of biodiversity and new regulatory requirements—particularly the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)—it is becoming essential to refine impact models, develop appropriate metrics, establish reference frameworks, and ensure that LCA meets corporate expectations for reporting and decision-making.
This session will explore "Methodologies, Metrics, and Alignment with Regulatory Expectations: From Agri-Food to a Sustainable Bioeconomy and its Transformations", focusing on methodological advancements to better integrate biodiversity impacts, particularly in the bioeconomy and agri-food sectors. It will address: (1) methodological progress in representing terrestrial, freshwater, and marine biodiversity impacts in LCA, (2) available metrics for quantifying these impacts and their relevance for businesses, (3) the alignment between LCA results and CSRD requirements for structured and actionable reporting, and (4) the challenges and opportunities related to applying these approaches in corporate strategies.
Aimed at LCA practitioners and corporate decision-makers, this session will emphasise practical solutions and development perspectives for an LCA that fully integrates biodiversity considerations. Beyond biodiversity, it will also examine the links between LCA and regulatory challenges, advancing sustainable practices in the bioeconomy and agri-food sectors.
Presentations
Et si la bioéconomie n’échappait pas aux risques de criticité ?
Dieuwertje Schrijvers1, Naeem Adibi1, Thomas Schaubroeck2, Tomas Rydberg5, Eduardo Entrena4, Milena Amaral3
1WeLOOP, France; 2Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg; 3Neovili, France; 4Contactica, Spain; 5IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, Sweden
Analyse des enjeux méthodologiques de l’Analyse de Cycle de Vie pour l’évaluation environnementale de la fertilisation organique en agriculture
Antoine Esnouf, Héloïse Wolff, Jeanne Serre
EVEA, France
Improving the Accountability of Green Water Flows and Stocks in Agricultural Life Cycle Assessment
Tamara Schmidt1, Natalja Čerkasova2, Joaquim Bellvert1, Laia Estrada3, Montse Nuñez1
Life Cycle Assessment of Agricultural Mulches: are biodegradable films a better option?
Takunda Yeukai Chitaka, Guido Sonnemann
University of Bordeaux, France
Développement d’inventaires de produits phytopharmaceutiques pour l’ACV : vers une meilleure intégration de la toxicité dans l’évaluation environnementale des productions agricoles françaises
Joséphine Gatin, Anne-Claire Asselin
Sayari, France
Characterization of land use impacts on soil biodiversity
1ITAP, Univ Montpellier, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France; 2Elsa, Research Group for Environmental Lifecycle and Sustainability Assessment, Montpellier, France
