Pere Fullana i Palmer is currently the Director of the UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change and is a Professor at ESCI-UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona). In 1993, his engineering PhD included a chapter on environment and health issues and, from then on, he dedicated his professional life to develop, apply, and teach Sustainability Assessment from a life cycle perspective. In 1994, he performed his first life cycle assessment. In 2010, he participated in the carbon footprint standard GHG Protocol by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. In 2019, he was chosen to present the conclusions by the Academia at the Closing Plenary of COP25. His first award was for the Best Final Project in Chemical Engineering in 1988. His last one, “Sustainability Education Lifetime Achievement Award from Join EDuC”, was in 2023. In between, he/his Chair has received others from entities such as the International Society for Industrial Ecology, the European Commission, the Catalan Government, Global Compact or Springer.
Pere Fullana i Palmer is currently the Director of the UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change and is a Professor at ESCI-UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona). In 1993, his engineering PhD included a chapter on environment and health issues and, from then on, he dedicated his professional life to develop, apply, and teach Sustainability Assessment from a life cycle perspective. In 1994, he performed his first life cycle assessment. In 2010, he participated in the carbon footprint standard GHG Protocol by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. In 2019, he was chosen to present the conclusions by the Academia at the Closing Plenary of COP25. His first award was for the Best Final Project in Chemical Engineering in 1988. His last one, “Sustainability Education Lifetime Achievement Award from Join EDuC”, was in 2023. In between, he/his Chair has received others from entities such as the International Society for Industrial Ecology, the European Commission, the Catalan Government, Global Compact or Springer.