Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Life Cycle Assessment CILCA 2021

PIASTRELLINI, ROXANA; ARENA, ALEJANDRO PABLO; CIVIT, BÁRBARA; LEILA SCHEIN

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Año: 2021 p. 405

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Faced with the COVID-19 pandemic, the LCA community has the tools and the opportunity to show the long-term environmental and social benefits of humanity's new preferences and thus improve the positioning of more sustainable technologies: those that allow immediate action, without losing the long-term view. Perhaps most importantly, these technologies could consolidate and become common currency once the emergency is over, achieving substantial improvements in terms of sustainability. CILCA 2021 was proposed as a space to address these new challenges with its traditional life cycle approach, accepting virtual participation in all its instances. In this way, being aware of the political, economic and social impact of the pandemic in Latin America and the world, we wanted to provide an adaptable solution to the diversity of circumstances that could affect people and limit their participation in the traditional format.In this edition, we scheduled nine plenary presentations, fifteen oral technical sessions, three short courses, a workshop, and a poster contest. We also include spaces for relaxation and activities strongly linked to the culture of the host country, such as mate and tango workshops.Convinced that together we can promote immediate and sustainable actions, we make available the contributions of researchers, thesis students and practitioners from Latin America and the rest of the world who have supported this first-rate scientific conference, developed in a framework of friendship.