LCM 2025 Concludes with Clear Message: Sustainability Needs Both Global Vision and Local Action The Life Cycle Management (LCM) 2025 Conference, held at the beginning of September 2025, has drawn to a close, leaving participants with a renewed sense of urgency—and opportunity—for steering sustainability transitions. Organized under the theme “Global to Local”, this year’s edition was chaired by SIGNeV founder Professor Marzia Traverso, whose leadership underscored the growing role of life cycle approaches in bridging science, industry, and policy. The LCM Conference Series, recognized as one of the world’s foremost forums on environmental, economic, and social sustainability, convenes every two years to bring together academia, practitioners, NGOs, and public institutions. The 2025 gathering reaffirmed its central mission: to make life cycle thinking not just a theoretical tool, but a practical driver of strategic and operational decisions. What set LCM 2025 apart was its deliberate emphasis on the participatory dimension of sustainability. Across plenaries, workshops, and technical sessions, participants engaged with methods, tools, and best practices that demonstrate how global strategies can be effectively translated into local realities. The scope was deliberately wide, with topics designed to resonate with stakeholders across geographical, political, and socio-economic contexts. Traverso highlighted in her closing remarks that the “global-to-local” approach is not just about scaling down lofty ambitions but about tailoring them—so that communities, businesses, and institutions alike can implement sustainability in ways that reflect their unique conditions and constraints. Beyond the science and case studies, the conference carried a strong undercurrent of pragmatism: how to operationalize sustainability now, with urgency, while strengthening the business case. For many participants, that duality—long-term systemic change paired with short-term action—emerged as the defining message of LCM 2025. As the conference series looks ahead to its next edition in 2027, the outcomes of LCM 2025 make clear that the conversation has matured. The global sustainability agenda is no longer framed as a distant aspiration but as a living, evolving practice where local adaptation will determine success.