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By May 3, 2010, the intermediate update of ecoinvent data v2.2 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 - but also by an inclusion of about 150 ADDITIONAL PROCE...

Short overview of current activities of the ecoinvent Centre.

Customers of ecoinvent data v2 have access to this report in the download section "Files" of the online ecoinvent database. The ecoinvent members may login to ecoinvent data v2.1 and click on the link [Files] in the grey bar on top of the window. In the lis...

You can now download on our website the beta3-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. ...

New access policy concerning the comprehensive documentation of the ecoinvent database.

Short overview of current activities of the ecoinvent Centre.

As announced in our last newsletter, we are pleased to inform you that the “files” section (accessible for members only) has been updated in the last couple of days to ecoinvent data v2.1. The report No. 16, documenting all changes, can be found there together with updated versions of one part of th...

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...

The presentation from Bo Weidema, ecoinvent executive manager, on October 1st, 2008, at the LCA VIII conference in Seattle (USA), intitulated 'A globalisation strategy for the ecoinvent LCI database' can be downloaded

The ecoinvent Centre is looking for EXPERTS for its International Editorial Board.

The april 2008 version of the ecoinvent report No. 16 "Documentation of changes to be implemented in ecoinvent Data v2.1" is available.

The various presentations of the 2nd international ecoinvent meeting, held on March 14, 2008 at the ETH Lausanne, are now available as pdf files online.

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Angewandte Forschung im Dienst der Umwelt.

Bo Weidema together with Roland Hischier will take over the work from Rolf Frischknecht and Mireille Faist on March 17, 2008.

The ecoinvent Newsletter No. 5 reports on recent activities of the ecoinvent Centre

The ecoinvent reports covering all datasets available in the new international ecoinvent data v2.0 are now available for download.

The new international ecoinvent data version 2.0 has been launched today. The entire database with its 4,000 life cycle inventory datasets and almost 300 impact assessment indicators is now available online.

The ecoinvent Newsletter No. 4 reports on recent activities of the ecoinvent Centre

During the SETAC Europe Annual meeting in Porto, Portugal, two posters of the ecoinvent Centre will be presented. The first one, presented on Monday, May 21, 2007, during the Life Cycle Inventory Session deals with the environmental relevance of capital goods. The other one, presented on Wednesday, ...