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🚀 The latest edition of the “Redesigning Chemical Innovation” magazine is now online, featuring a collection of essays on how to make Safe and Sustainable-by-Design (#SSbD) a practical reality, with contributions from a wide range of organisations, including Cefic. This collection was commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management (I&W), in collaboration with the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM). 🇳🇱 In the essay, "Innovating based on Safe and Sustainable-by-Design principles: A Vision for the Chemical Industry", Eva-Kathrin Schillinger (Cefic), Ann Dierckx (essenscia), Dr. Wibke Lölsberg (BASF), and Adrian Beard (Clariant) share Cefic’s vision for SSbD and explain how this approach can guide the innovation process, driving safer, more sustainable solutions for the future. 🌍🔬 The authors also present Cefic’s 'Safe and Sustainable-by-Design: A Guidance to Unleash the Transformative Power of Innovation,' which offers actionable advice on embedding SSbD throughout the innovation lifecycle, while highlighting its role in boosting the competitiveness of the EU chemical industry. 💡 📖 Read the full essay here: https://lnkd.in/dE7ax9_T #Innovation #Sustainability #ChemicalIndustry #SafeAndSustainable #Competitiveness

We're thrilled to have supported industry leaders Flexible Packaging Europe (FPE) in the development of comprehensive LCA guidance for flexible packaging! 🍫 This guidance aligns methodologies for LCAs and ensures consistency and quality across the industry. It’s a valuable resource for LCA practitioners and reviewers, easing the process and reducing documentation requirements. To ensure sustainability plans are ambitious and science-based, we need industries to work toward common standards. This guidance helps players in the flexible packaging industry play by the same set of rules regarding impact assessments. “Quantis is proud to have led the technical development and drafting of this LCA guidance, working closely with industry leaders to ensure its applicability and impact.” – Patricia G. & Laura Peano, Quantis Read more about the guidance >> https://lnkd.in/evuvR6KU #SustainabilePackaging #LCA #Packaging

Quantis is engaged into transforming sectors at scale through consortiums bringing the whole industry together. Another example of that beyond #SPICE or #EcoBeautyScore, with Flexible Packaging Europe (FPE). Great achievement by the Quantis team, Laura Peano and Patricia Granados but also others in the background, in collaboration with the companies part of the consortium, to align the industry on applying consistent LCA methodologies. It is only through #sciencedriven #solutionsfocused work and #collaboration that we will progress towards aligning businesses with #PlanetaryBoundaries.

Do submit your abstract for this very relevant session! Risk assessment covers safety and LCA covers sustainability but sustainable systems cannot be unsafe.

Biodiversity loss is more than just a land use issue. So how can we better articulate and quantify the impacts related to the chemical processes that create our apparel & footwear? And more importantly, how do better align with other sectors and NOT create metric silos? If you have research or insights you'd like to share, then read more below 👇 #esg #SustainableApparel

🚨 Call for Abstracts – Join ZDHC at SETAC Europe 2025! 🚨 Excited to help organize the session "Developing Science-Based Metrics to Quantify Fashion and Apparel’s Chemical and Biodiversity Impacts on Nature" at the SETAC Europe 35th Annual Meeting in Vienna, May 11–15, 2025. This session addresses the critical research gap between chemical pollution and biodiversity loss—a priority issue highlighted in UNEP’s triple planetary crisis framework (climate change, pollution, and biodiversity). As sustainability reporting requirements ramp up, particularly under the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), the fashion industry must develop science-based metrics to quantify the impact of sustainable chemical management to reduce pollution. We invite scientists, policymakers, and sustainability professionals to submit abstracts that explore: 🌿 Next-gen water water and bio-monitoring methods and tools for biodiversity impacts 🔬 Case studies and models linking sustainable chemicals management and biodiversity preservation ⚖️ Actionable metrics to streamline sustainability reporting 🤝 Collaborative strategies for reducing high-hazard chemical use across industries This session is open to various disciplines—ecotoxicity, wildlife management, participatory science, analytical chemistry, sustainability management—and aims to provide clear, actionable insights for both industry stakeholders and policymakers. 📅 Abstract Deadline: November 20, 2024 https://lnkd.in/eKemPn_6 Let’s bridge the knowledge gap, protect ecosystems, and shape sustainable practices—be part of the solution in Vienna! 🌍

Great to have contributed from the OECD SSIA work to these 'Redesigning Chemical Innovation' essays. Redesigning Chemical Innovation - Essays on Safe and Sustainable by Design This collection of essays contains eleven contributions from representatives of a wide range of organisations, in which they indicate what they think is needed to make the concept of Safe and Sustainable by Design work in practice. With a recommendation from Jürgen Tiedje of the European Commission. https://lnkd.in/eUGMae_Q

🚀𝗟𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗖𝗔!🚀  Only 3 days left until the registration deadline!  Don't miss this unique opportunity to be part of an important global sustainability project! 🌿⏳  Sign up now, become part of the LCA Expert register and meet us in the conference. #LCA #Sustainability #Innovation #Interlaboratory #MappingLCA

ERM are proud to attend #SETACEurope2024 which is addressing the theme of “Science based solutions in a time of crisis: Integrating Science and policy for environmental challenges”. At the event, we will host a seminar (Daniele Ruccia, Peter Shonfield, Valentina Ricottone, Ph.D., Apostolos Koutsaftis, Ricardo Petersen, Francisca Ribeiro, Mariana Rato, Tim Barber) talking about sustainability in chemical design, and the need for this thinking to be inherent in the chemical design process. As part of the EU Green Deal, there is progress towards some of the targets outlined by the Chemical Strategy for Sustainability, and in particular the objective to minimise the use of the most toxic compounds in the market, but little progress on sustainability targets. This has been emphasized by the recent European Environment Agency dashboard, calling for more progress on circularity targets. Specifically talking about “Safe and Sustainable by Design – How to reconcile Safety and Sustainability Assessment in the Chemical Industry?” we wish to reiterate the importance of sustainable thinking in the EU chemical industry: - Whilst green chemistry is part of the solution, it must be supported by green engineering.  - Highlight the impact of indirect effects in the supply chain and the need for this to be minimized.  - Sustainability should be at the heart of any design or re-design of a chemical process. - A need for more action to promote the transition to the circular economy.  Whilst ERM recognize that the challenge is enormous and that work is underway to start to address these issues, we wish to emphasise the scale of the challenge and can support industry to establish the philosophy of Safe and Sustainable by Design.  If you wish to attend our seminar, please register at https://lnkd.in/d9ywXRHc  We are looking forward to meeting you on Wednesday, 8th May 2024, from 12:55 - 14:25, at the Video Conference Room (Floor 3, FIBES 2) at SETAC.   In addition to the seminar, at SETAC the ERM team will be happy to meet you at our booth 230.  #chemicals #toxicology #sustainability #environment #safe #sustainable #SSbD 

📣 For those interested in 🌍 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗖𝘆𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 (𝗟𝗖𝗖) and 🔄 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗖𝘆𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 (𝗟𝗖𝗦𝗔): I’m pleased to share some important news (a bit delayed due to my holiday break 😊): 𝗟𝗖𝗖 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗱𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 developed as part of the OrientingEU project has been published in the 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘊𝘺𝘤𝘭𝘦 𝘈𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵! This research introduces a comprehensive LCC methodology specifically designed for use within LCSA frameworks. 📄 The article offers a detailed, step-by-step guide on applying #LCC in #LCSA, including two illustrative case studies that showcase the practical application of our methodology. If you're interested in 🌱 𝘀𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 and the potential of 𝗟𝗖𝗖 to enhance transparency and comparability in the industry, I invite you to explore our research further: https://lnkd.in/dWmeAFWE I hope our work inspires a more harmonized approach to 𝗟𝗖𝗖 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘀 across various sectors. My sincere thanks to all co-authors Till Bachmann, Jonathan van der Kamp, Hanna Pihkola & Mateo Saavedra del Oso for the great collaborative effort. TECNALIA Research & Innovation TECNALIA Circular Economy #LifeCycleAssessment #Sustainability #LifeCycleCosting #ProductDevelopment #ResearchPaper #SustainabilityAssessment