Ratings and Reviews for Life Cycle Assessment

<co-content><text>Prof. Olivier Jolliet was exceptional. It's worth attending this course. </text></co-content>

<co-content><text>This course has fundamentally shifted my professional perspective from viewing sustainability as a mere branding tool to recognizing it as a quantitative science essential for transparent marketing. My LCA research demonstrated that dairy milk has a 60% higher carbon footprint than almond milk (0.61 vs. 0.38 kg CO2eq), despite showing nearly identical energy consumption (~5 MJ), which challenges the common assumption that "plant-based" always equals lower energy. By integrating a 34% food loss factor and discovering that local sourcing can reduce emissions by 31%, I have gained the technical tools necessary at UPN to prevent greenwashing and provide rigorous, data-backed environmental claims. Although relying on global Ecoinvent data remains a limitation for the Peruvian context, this experience has provided a solid foundation for developing localized sustainable solutions in my future career.</text></co-content>

Pros: The course fundamental materials were good. Cons: The case study was discombobulated and not useful, and it didn't do enough LCA software tutorial.

The videos and materials provided by the course are interesting and useful, but the grading and evaluation processes are a mess. There's no indication on where to find the necessary data for the evaluation and the databases mentioned along the course are very expensive (thousands of dollars for a license). The evaluation is also dependent on peers-review which most of the times don't happen or are very inaccurate. Even along the graded quizzes per each module, random information is required to elaborate an answer which is not given in the question. It could be a very good course if it was not for the evaluation process and lack of explanation on how to find or process the data (which, in my opinion, is the most important topic when learning about LCAs...)

Challenging but great course

More information on software tools would be helpful

Excellent

This course was very useful, but be aware that having access to EcoInvent License is necessary for using Open LCA software , or have a SimaPro license to complete the LCI, LCIA.

good

This course is amazing. A course about LCA with direct-simulation is a must! Clearly delivered, easy to understand, and challenging assessment and tasks.