Biogenic carbon and climate change mitigation: is biogenic carbon the silver bullet or a flash in the pan?

80. LCA discussion forum, 9 June 2022, ETH Zentrum campus, Alumni Pavillon

Abstract

A nice overview and summary of the event can be found in Buildings & Cities from September 16th 2022

Program and presentations

Time

Thursday, 9 June 2022

Speaker [Chair]

8:30

Registration, Coffee, Tea and Croissants

 

 

The role of biogenic carbon for the climate, buildings and community targets

[Rolf Frischknecht, treeze]

09:00

Welcome and introduction

Rolf Frischknecht, treeze

09:10

Keynote: Climate effect of temporarily stored CO2 within building materials

Cyril Brunner, ETH Zürich

09:40

Biogenic carbon flows and assessments in building stocks, dynamic approach

Guillaume Habert, ETH Zürich

10:00

Biogenic carbon and its potential role on the way to a net zero CO2 emission Zürich

Niko Heeren, City of Zürich

10:20

Discussion

 

10:40

Coffee & Tea break

 

 

How to deal with biogenic carbon in buildings LCA

 

11:10

Biogenic carbon modelling in French building LCAs

Bruno Peuportier, Armines

11:30

Biogenic carbon: the footprint-handprint approach in Finnish buildings LCA

Matti Kuittinen, Ympäristöministeriö §

11:50

Biogenic carbon modelling and assessment in buildings LCA: the Annex 72 consensus

Alexander Passer, TU Graz *

12:10

Discussion

 

12:30

Lunch

 

 

Short presentation on biogenic carbon modelling in the construction sector

 

13:30

Climate positive buildings

Cornelia Stettler, carbotech

13:40

How the biogenic carbon temporarily stored in buildings should be ecologically balanced in the view of the European wood associations

Andrew Norton, European Woodworking Industry Confederation
Hansueli Schmid, Swiss forestry and timber industry association

13:50

Including changes in forest carbon stocks in LCA for forestry products

Ilkka Leinonen, LUKE

 

Carbon mitigation and carbon certificates

 

14:00

Tree planting for carbon mitigation? Assessment options over the life cycle

Niels Jungbluth, ESU-services

14:20

LCA of Negative Emission Technologies/Carbon Dioxide Removal: Current state and recommendations

Christian Bauer, PSI

14:40

LCA modelling of supply chains with CO2 compensated raw material inputs

Martin Lehmann, MyClimate

15:00

Discussion

 

15:15

Coffee & Tea break

 

 

LCA in view of net zero buildings

 

15:45

Discussion in breakout groups on the topic of Net zero emission buildings:

  1. Time dependent GWP factors in carbon footprinting of buildings (Frank Werner)
  2. Temporal storage of biogenic carbon in buildings (Rolf Frischknecht)
  3. Negative emission technologies and LCA (Christian Bauer)
 

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16:30

Reporting back to plenary and discussion

 

17:00

Synthesis, Announcements and Farewell

Rolf Frischknecht

17:15

End of 80th LCA Forum

 

Video streaming

All presentations were recorded.

The recording of the event is available here.