Shaniq Pillay
Expert
Biodiversity for LCA practitioners
Goal
Get an introduction to biodiversity assessment using a life cycle assessment approach and learn how to extend your LCAs to get insights on biodiversity impact in SimaPro Craft (previously SimaPro desktop).
Duration
1 session (ONLINE)
This biodiversity assessment short course provides you with the core concepts and theory on biodiversity assessment, going beyond carbon-only assessments to determine further ecosystem and species impacts.
During the training, you will learn how to extend your life cycle assessments to the endpoint of biodiversity impact (in potentially disappeared fraction of species per square metre per year) on a company-specific and project-specific level. We will demonstrate how this could work using a physical data approach using LCA databases. We will discuss the main impact assessment methods used and how to interpret the metric.
We will give an outlook for how to work with the strengths and limitations of an LCA approach and supplement with multi-indicators approaches.
We will end the session with ample time for questions and discussion topics we didn’t get to.
Please note: Previous experience conducting life cycle assessments is a prerequisite. Preferably, each participant is familiar with and works on an LCA software in their daily work. We will be using SimaPro Craft during the course.
The trainers
During the training, you will learn:
Theory on biodiversity and how to include biodiversity impacts in your product or company environmental assessment using an LCA approach.
Biodiversity footprinting core concepts and explanation of the basic methodology.
The concepts of biodiversity impact assessment method and interpretation, i.e., the metrics and methods involved.
We will demonstrate practical modelling for a physical data approach using different impact assessment methodologies.
As a result, you will:
Understand the core concepts of biodiversity footprinting and specificities using an LCA approach.
Understand how to apply biodiversity footprinting using SimaPro Craft.
Understand the main limitations and strengths of biodiversity footprinting.
Interested in what we are doing in the biodiversity field? Read about the latest developments on our biodiversity metrics website: www.biodiversity-metrics.org