Parallel Sessions 1 (Afternoon Day 1)

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PARALLEL SESSIONS 1: POLICIES AND METHODOLOGIES
Note: Session-1a was cancelled, because key topics linked to Policy Support are so completely integrated within other topics that they will be better addressed separately within all other sessions.
1b	Session Title	Sustainability Assessment
1b	Subtitle	Integration of environmental, economic and social aspects for decision support in industry and policy
Session chair and reporter		Per Mickwitz, SYKE, Finland
Session chair and reporter		Pascal Mallard, Cemagref, France
	Session introduction, Per Mickwitz
P1	Title	Integrated assessment challenge
	Subtitle	Methodological requirements at the crossroads of different disciplines
	Speaker	Helmut Marcus Knoflacher - ARCS, Austrian Research Centres, Austria
P2	Title	Combining Ecological and Economic Assessments of Waste Management
	Subtitle	Newspaper disposal case study
	Speaker	Helena Dahlbo, SYKE, Finland
Session synthesis as presented in plenary session
1c	Session Title	Sustainable Consumption
1c	Subtitle	Social perception, awareness and behaviour related to environmental technology
Session chair and reporter		Carolin Baedeker, Wuppertail Inst., Germany
Session chair and reporter		Gabrielle Bouleau, Cemagref, France
	Session introduction, Carolin Baedeker
P1	Title	Social and cultural aspects of changing technologies
	Subtitle	Exemplified by recycling of nutrients from urban to rural areas.
	Speaker	Maj-Britt Quitzau - NERI, Denmark
P2	Title	Conditions for sustainable consumption
	Subtitle	Beyond information and education
	Speaker	Joachim Spangenberg, SERI, Germany
Session synthesis as presented in plenary session
1d	Session Title	Environmental Impact Assessment
1d	Subtitle	Potential for a consistent framework with many beneficial applications
Session chair and reporter		David Pennington, JRC IES
Session chair and reporter		Anne Ventura, LCPC, France
P1	Title	Integrated methodology to calculate, aggregate and rank environmental impacts from products
	Subtitle	Integrated I/O-LCA and multi-criteria analysis applied to the case of Danish consumption
	Speaker	Trine Susanne Jensen, NERI, Denmark
P2	Title	The challenge of modelling LC impact assessment and presenting results to decision makers in a simple way without losing validity/effectiveness
	Subtitle	Current state of the art of midpoint and endpoint-modelling - introducing the need to make tradeoffs and to weight - single score solution (eco-indicator, or just CO2, or energy, and the KePI approach) – research needs for developing better environmental models and making trade offs.
	Speaker	Mark Goedkoop, PRé Consultants, Netherlands
Session synthesis as presented in plenary session
1e	Session Title	Developing Environmental Technologies
1e	Subtitle	Eco-design, R and D, verification-testing and labelling, green purchasing, etc.
Session chair and reporter		Daniel Froelich, ENSAM, France
Session chair and reporter		Klaus Rennnings, Zew, Germany
P1	Title	Emerging new technologies for clean production and water treatment
	Subtitle	Supporting the development and market introduction of environmentally sound technologies
	Speaker	Annele Eerola,VTT, Finland
P2	Title	Plastic films in agriculture
	Subtitle	Verification and testing of Plastics' Biodegradability (physical vs. biochemical biodegradability)
	Speaker	Veronique Bellon-Maurel, Cemagref, France
Session synthesis as presented in plenary session