30/09/2026
Un recent estudi revela que distribuir la medicació ambulatòria de dispensació hospitalària a través de les farmàcies comunitàries redueix gairebé el 50% en les emissions de CO₂, un dels principals gasos d’efecte d’hivernacle, que produeixen els pacients en els seus desplaçaments per recollir-la.
30/09/2026
Researchers from the UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change at ESCI-UPF and Washington State University have examined how changing environmental conditions can affect the credibility of fishery certification schemes and the need for regulatory monitoring.
28/05/2026
A new study led by the UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change at ESCI-UPF analyses how biofertilizers, biostimulants, organic amendments, and intercropping systems can reduce the environmental impact of agriculture while maintaining crop productivity in Denmark and Ukraine.
19/01/2026
ESCI-UPF and Politecnico di Milano publish a joint research paper to help organisations and consumers, respectively, with policy and decision-making through the assessment of the social risks associated with different high-protein food alternatives.
10/11/2025
In a study published in the Polymers journal (MDPI), researchers of the UNESCO Chair and LEPAMAP analyse the circular quality of polymers by comparing bio-based and fossil-based polymers with the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) methodology.
28/10/2025
The UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change at ESCI-UPF contributed as a co-author to the article "Promoting health through climate change mitigation in Europe," published in The Lancet Planetary Health journal (2025).
23/09/2025
In the framework of the ECOtwins research partnership, the UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change at ESCI-UPF participated in a study now published in the journal Sustainable Production and Consumption that highlights the environmental impacts of various sustainable agricultural products.
17/09/2025
The ESCI-UPF UNESCO Chair researcher Sandra Ceballos-Santos discusses a recent perspective published in the ACS Environmental Au Journal within the framework of the SMART-FOODPRINT Project. The paper explores the vital role of certification schemes and ecolabels in closing the gap in sustainability awareness within the seafood sector.
14/05/2025
The team of the European project Greentour, coordinated by researchers from the UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change (ESCI-UPF), has published a new article in the journal Sustainability presenting an innovative tool to assess the environmental impact of tourism at both destination and establishment levels.
25/03/2025
An international consortium of research institutions and innovative companies, led by the UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change at ESCI-UPF, has published a comprehensive review on the major contributions of mechanochemistry as a significant advancement in Green Chemistry.
13/02/2025
The UNESCO Chair researcher Cristina Campos writes about the paper published in the Journal of Cleaner Production on the CICEP Project, which explores the application of the circular economy in the Canary Islands polymer transformation industry.
10/10/2024
The UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change at ESCI-UPF has published a paper on the new nutritional quality model they have developed based on the life cycle assessment to evaluate the environmental performance of protein sources.