Swiss
Discussion Forum on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) 2005
Dissemination,
application and assessment of LCA in companies
March 18, 2005, ETH
Zürich (in German)
Life
cycle approaches for Green Investment
June 7, 2005, EPF Lausanne
LCA
in Industry: Challenges and Approaches to make it more practical
November 17, 2005, ETH Zürich
Content
of the Fora:
Dissemination,
application and assessment of LCA in companies
18th
March, Zürich (in German)
400
ISO-14001-certified and 170 listed companies
were asked about the application of life cycle assessment in the
course of a
research study of the University of St. Gallen.
For the first time, empirically founded first hand knowledge is
available on
the dissemination and on the concrete shaping and assessment of these
tools.
These results serve as the starting point of a position finding after
about 30
years of LCA theory and practice, expressing requirements and
expectations
for future developments.
Life
cycle approaches for Green Investment
7th
June, Lausanne
Nowadays, most
financial institutions use some kind
of environmental indicators such as energy, CO2, resources
use for
the assessment of companies. This allows them to screen a range of
companies
and construct "green" investment funds. To support effective green
investments, there is a high need to have better criteria and tools to
assess
companies and measure their life cycle environmental performance,
including
supply chain as well as products use and disposal. The forum will
explore the
current use of environmental indicators and discuss whether and how to
apply LCA approaches for screening listed companies with respect to
their
environmental impact.
LCA in
Industry: Challenges and Appoaches to make it more practical
17th
November, Zürich
This
forum will present practical and scientific approaches for performing
LCA in
companies, in particular chemical and material industry. Approaches
for simplifying
the application of LCA and their implementation in industry will be
presented, such as generic
inventory
tools for chemical production and end-of-pipe processes. The discussion
forum
will facilitate the exchange of experience between practitioners from
industry and developers of LCA tools. The applicability and validity
of the
tools presented will be discussed and conclusions will be drawn on
practical
advice and further research needs.
For more information and to apply, please open the attached word file
or use http://www.texma.org/LCA-Forum/lca-forum.html
More information for each forum will be sent separately.
We hope that
these forums will interest you,
Best regards,
The adivsory board
Olivier
Jolliet, EPFL/GECOS (chair)
Yves Loerincik, EPFL/GECOS
(co-ordinator)
Arthur Braunschweig, E2
Management Consulting Inc.
Rolf Frischknecht,
Esu-services
Stefanie Hellweg, ETHZ/ICB
Roland Hischier, Empa
Thomas Koellner, ETHZ
Ruedi Müller-Wenk, HSG
Claude Patrick Siegenthaler,
Hosei University
Marion Tobler, ETHZ
Andrea Weber Marin, ETHZ/AM
--
Yves Loerincik
Environmental Science and Engineering
EPFL, bâtiment GR, GECOS
CH-1015 Lausanne
tel: ++ 41 21 693 57 46
fax: ++ 41 21 693 57 60
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