Dr Llorenc Mila i Canals

Llorenç Milà i Canals worked in the Centre for Environment and Sustainability (CES) from November 2004 to December 2007 as a research fellow on a RELU funded project assessing the gains and losses associated with expanded domestic fruit and vegetables production. Llorenç has academic qualifications in environmental sciences and had previously worked teaching and researching on life cycle assessment (LCA) and eco-design related issues in three different university schools in Barcelona (Spain).

His research interests focus on the sustainability of consumption and production systems in general, and more specifically on the assessment of land use impacts and freshwater within LCA. After a brief period in a Spanish research centre on organic waste management, Llorenç moved on to a new job in Unilever in March 2008, where he worked as a sustainability scientist contributing to the development of methods for the quantification of Unilever’s environmental footprint and engaging agricultural suppliers in the reduction of their impacts.

In August 2013 he moved to Paris to work in The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to coordinate the LCA activities in UNEP, including the Life Cycle Initiative. Key areas of work here include the application of life cycle approaches to plastics pollution and other sectors, as well as guiding policy development to key areas of unsustainable consumption and production in countries.