On September 26th, 2025, the LCA4BIO project hosted its Second Co-Creation Workshop, bringing together stakeholders from research, industry, policymaking, and civil society for an engaging 90-minute online session.
Under the facilitation of the LCA4BIO team, the workshop was designed to be highly interactive and collaborative, creating space for participants to exchange experiences, challenges, and expectations regarding Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) practices in emerging bioeconomy sectors.
This session marked an important step in LCA4BIO’s co-creation process, focusing on the potential role of Dynamic Carbon Footprint (CF) models in certification schemes—and their implications for sustainability assessment in the bio-based industry.
Key topics explored
Participants worked together to reflect on opportunities and challenges around:
🔁 Benefits and limitations of dynamic CF models in real-world applications
📊 Data availability, accessibility, and existing gaps in bio-based value chains
📃 Impacts on certification processes and stakeholder trust
🏭 Effects on organisations of different sizes and sectors, from SMEs to large industries
Why it matters
Dynamic CF models could provide a more realistic and future-oriented approach to carbon footprint assessment, better capturing the temporal aspects of emissions and their relevance for decision-making, data collection, and policy alignment.
The insights gathered during the workshop will feed directly into the development of robust Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) tools that LCA4BIO is building to support the green transition of the European bio-based sector.
What’s next
This co-creation journey will continue with further workshops and stakeholder engagements, ensuring that the tools developed are practical, reliable, and aligned with real-world needs.
Stay tuned as we keep working—together—to shape the next generation of sustainability assessment methodologies for bio-based systems.
