This study quantifies the potential effects of land restoration for soil, food, water, biodiversity and climate change at the global and regional levels, using three global land-use scenarios up to 2050. https://www.pbl.nl/en/publications/the-global-potential-for-land-restoration-scenarios-for-the-global-land-outlook-2 https://www.pbl.nl/sites/default/files/downloads/pbl-2021-the-global-potential-for-land-restoration-glo2-3898.pdf https://themasites.pbl.nl/nature-based-solutions/nature-based-solutions Nature-based solutions and scenarios Nature-based Solutions (BbS) are actions that enable the protection, sustainable management and restoration of natural and managed ecosystems, that can simultaneously provide human well-being an biodiversity benefits. Nature-based solutions (NbS) include restoration, management, and rehabilitation measures, as well as conservation of ecosystems, that enhance nature’s contribution to people, such as agroforestry, conservation agriculture, assisted natural regeneration and urban green and blue spaces.

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Session 3 Purpose This software session focuses on reproducing the results of an LCA paper on economic allocation, defining functional flows and identifying multi functional processes, with the software program CMLCA. In today’s exercises, you will learn: to understand the main principles of economic allocation; how such analyses work in CMLCA software. You may perform the exercise alone or together with (a) colleague(s) in a virtual room, and again, you don’t have to hand in the results.

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Avoided burden1 Most existing LCA databases today do not include multi-functional processes. including ecoinvent MF is ‘solved’ by database developers by delivering only mono-functional datasets. Mostly, practitioners cannot change this methodological decision anymore and often don’t realize that they are handling (‘accepting’) more MF issues than they realize. Consequently, most software doesn’t include ways to address MF. While it is known as one of the most determining factors of LCA results.

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Principles for life cycle inventories of land use on a global scale Thomas Koellner, Laura de Baan, Tabea Beck, Miguel Brandão, Barbara Civit, Mark Goedkoop, Manuele Margni, Llorenç Milà i Canals, Ruedi Müller-Wenk, Bo Weidema & Bastian Wittstock The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment volume 18, pages1203–1215 (2013) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11367-012-0392-0 Land use elementary flows In LCA, land occupation and land transformation can be distinguished as basic types of land use elementary flows (Milà i Canals et al.

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032108001354 Land use and electricity generation: A life-cycle analysis Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews Volume 13, Issues 6–7, August–September 2009, Pages 1465-1474 Vasilis Fthenakis¹, Hyung Chul Kim² ¹ National Photovoltaic Environmental Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Bldg 475B, Upton, NY 11973, United States ² Center for Life Cycle Analysis, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, United States Abstract Renewable-energy sources often are regarded as dispersed and difficult to collect, thus requiring substantial land resources in comparison to conventional energy sources.

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https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11367-021-01955-5.pdf Almost every overview of LCA gives a graphical indication of the idea of a life cycle. Such diagrams consist of a linear sequence or network of blocks, connected with arrows, representing the major life stages of a product life cycle. Examples from recent textbooks on LCA can be found in Klöpffer and Grahl (2014, p. 2), Jolliet et al. (2016, p. 36), and Hauschild et al. (2018, p. 120). All such flow diagrams agree on the basic setup of a chronological order: resource becomes products, products are used, and it all ends with disposal of waste.

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