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Short overview of current activities of the ecoinvent Centre.

By May 14, 2009, the intermediate update of ecoinvent data v2.1 is released. The quality of this unique database is further improved by selected updating resp. correction of errors according to the current state of knowledge.

More information about these changes can be found

In its efforts to further improve its database, the ecoinvent Centre announces the constitution of the new Editorial Board and the extended International Advisory Council. 

More information about the Editorial Board

You can now download on our website a beta-version of the ecoSpold format version 2 which is designed to replace the current ecoSpold format for the next version of the ecoinvent database, scheduled for release in 2011.

In response to the many questions we have received from customers and sponsors, this paper outlines the position of the ecoinvent Centre towards the recent initiative of the European Commission DG-JRC to develop an International Reference Life Cycle Data Syste...

From January 1st 2009, the ecoinvent database will be provided free of charge for educational institutions in non-OECD countries for non-commercial use. Such an educational licence has the following characteristics:

• illimited access (number of persons) within the university campus
• ...

Nearly 300 members and guests filled in our online questionnaire in October. We have now analysed the results which confirms us in our chosen strategy. As you can see from the Figure below, the most important features for our stakeholders are "Transparency", "Consistency" and &q...