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*****SORRY FOR CROSS-POSTINGS*** * **26th LCA Discussion Forum* *Life Cycle Approaches for Green Investment* June 7, 2005, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Room CO 016 Dear Sir or Madam, The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne is organizing a forum on *Green Investment* on the *7th of June in Lausanne*, joining together SRI (Socially Responsible Investment) professionals and scientists working in the quantitative assessment of environmental impacts. *Life cycle thinking* has the potential to provide the basis for better criteria and tools to assess companies and measure their life cycle environmental performance. It is a powerful, inclusive and quantitative approach going further the traditional production-centred view and considering direct and indirect impacts, including supply chain as well as products use and disposal. Life-cycle analysis already gave proof of its usefulness to evaluate, for example, environmental aspects of sustainable production and consumption. The 26th LCA discussion forum aims first at exploring the environmental side of SRI (Socially Responsible Investment). How do the various actors, investors and environmental analysts, choose the companies for investment? What are their main criteria, objectives and corresponding investment & risk management philosophies? Both qualitative and quantitative methods as well as the link between environmental and economic performances will be discussed. The second aim is to determine and illustrate how life cycle approaches can be practically used in the area of SRI, i.e., to identify key environmental issues within each sector, to ease the analysis of companies and to propose alternative benchmarks for environmental performance measures. In particular, the 26th LCA Forum will look at: - Is green investment really leverage for a more sustainable development? - What are the current qualitative and quantitative approaches? - What is the link between economic and environmental performance? How can life-cycle thinking provide the basis for: - Assessing the environmental performance of green and traditional funds? - Assessing the quality of published data? - Reducing the number of monitored indicators by concentrating on key issues? - Helping companies to understand their environmental impacts? *Proposal for additional short presentation (10 min) are welcome.* We are persuaded that this forum will be of interest to all interested in Socially Responsible Investment and we are looking forward to welcoming you in Lausanne. Best regards. Prof. Olivier Jolliet, Damien Friot, Yves Loerincik, for the Industrial Ecology - Life Cycle Systems group, EPFL & Thomas Köllner from NSSI-ETHZ Please find more information within the attached invitation. Information on the LCA Discussion Forums and *application forms* can be found on the following website: http://texma.org/lcaforum/ <http://www.texma.org/LCA-Forum/lca-forum.html> Contact: [log in to unmask] Practicalities: * The forum takes place in Lausanne, at the EPF and will be held in english -- LCA Forum EPFL, bâtiment GR, GECOS CH-1015 Lausanne tel: ++ 41 21 693 57 46 fax: ++ 41 21 693 57 60 [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> http://texma.org/lcaforum/ To unsubscribe from this list please go to http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/industrial-ecology or send the following command to [log in to unmask] leave industrial-ecology