About 2.-0 LCA consultants
2.-0 LCA consultants was founded in year 2000 by senior consultant Bo P. Weidema. The company is a Limited Liability Partnership and is owned exclusively by the employees. We operate in Europe, North America, Asia, and South Africa.
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Team
Bo P. Weidema
Born in 1956. Bo Weidema has more than 30 years of experience in environmental issues, since joining the emerging environmental grassroots movements in 1972. In 1984, with a M.Sc. in horticulture from the Royal Agricultural University of Copenhagen, he initiated an interdisciplinary, inter-university course on environment of which he became the first administrator and lecturer. As private consultant and member of international committees from 1985-1989 he was involved in developing standards and markets for ecological food products. In 1993 he obtained the Ph.D. degree from the Technical University of Denmark on a thesis on life cycle assessment. Since then he has been working as a consultant on life cycle assessment. He was instrumental in the development of the SPOLD LCI data format and database network from 1995 to 2001. He is executive manager of the ecoinvent database, external associate professor at Aalborg University, member of the UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative's task forces on Social aspects (co-chair) and Natural resources and land use, expert delegate to the ISO TC 207 / SC5 on life cycle assessment.
Europe
Marianne S. Wesnæs
Marianne Wesnæs is a chemical engineer from the Engineering Academy of Denmark at the Technical University of Denmark. 14 years of experience as a consultant in life cycle assessment (1992-1995 with Rendan, now Waste Centre Denmark, 1995-2000 at the Technical University of Denmark and since 2000 with 2.-0 LCA consultants). Danish expert delegate to the ISO TC 207/SC5 and CEN in 1993-1997. Main areas of expertise are life cycle assessments of packaging, municipal and private recycling systems, textiles, critical reviews, and administration of databases (Life Cycle and Input/Output Databases). Extensive teaching experience (Students at Universities and environmental employees in the industry).
Jannick H. Schmidt
Environmental management engineer from 2002 from Aalborg University. Jannick H. Schmidt obtained his Ph.D. in 2007 with a study on life cycle assessment of rapeseed oil and palm oil. He holds an assistant professorship at Aalborg University. Main areas of expertise and experience are life cycle assessments of agricultural products and waste management systems, and development of LCA methodology regarding system delimitation, LCIA methods for biodiversity and Input-Output-based LCA. Extensive teaching and supervision experience.
North America
Gregory A. Norris
A mechanical engineer by training, Greg Norris obtained his Ph.D. in 1994 from University of New Hampshire. Since then, he has been working as a consultant on LCA. Visiting scientist at Harvard University and Adjunct Research Professor at University of New Hampshire, teaching and leading research in LCA and Industrial Ecology. Director of US Operations for Athena Sustainable Materials Institute. Developer of decision support software. Member of the Steering Group of the UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative. Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment.
Asia
Sangwon Suh
Environmental engineer from 1998 from Ajou University. In 2004, Sangwon Suh earned his Ph.D. with a study on materials and energy flows in industrial and ecosystem networks at Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) in Leiden University. He is currently assistant professor at University of Minnesota. He develops databases and analytical algorithms for IOA and LCA. He serves as chair of the SETAC and ISIE joint working group on "IOA in Industrial Ecology" and is a Peer Review Board Member of the UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative and Subject Editor for the International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment.
South Africa
Pippa Notten
A chemical engineer by training, Pippa Notten obtained her Ph.D. in 2002 from University of Cape Town, South Africa, on a thesis on life cycle assessment uncertainty in resource-based industries. Pippa is an internationally recognised expert on the use of uncertainty assessment for improving decision-making power of life cycle assessments and LCA subject editor for the Journal of Industrial Ecology.