2nd ecoinvent event (March 14, 2008)

2nd international ecoinvent meeting
  

Below you find the program of the 2nd international ecoinvent meeting, held on March 14, 2008 at the ETH Lausanne. With a right mouse click on the red-coloured title you can download a PDF-File with the respective presentation.

• LCA as a decision tool in environmental policy
  Mathias Tellenbach, Swiss Federal Office of the Environment (FOEN)
  
• Finding optimal complexity in life cycle impact assessment with help of ecoinvent data 
  M.A.J. Huijbregts, Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)
  

• EPD requires specific data - and relies on generic databases 
  B. Bodlund, Vattenfall AB

• The ecoinvent database: a success story 
  R. Frischknecht, ecoinvent Centre
     
  
• Electronics
  Empa / Technology & Society Lab (TSL)
  R. Hischier & M. Lehmann
  
• Solvents and highly pure chemicals
  ETHZ / S&U
  G. Wernet
  

• Biomass production
  - Introduction & overview
     Thomas Nemecek, agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon
  - Raw materials for biofuels
     Niels Jungbluth, ESU-services Ltd
  - New agricultural products
     Thomas Kägi, agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon
  - Fibres and wood
     Hans-Jörg Althaus, Empa / TSL

• Energy supply
  - small CHP / US & Chinese electricity
     Christian Bauer, Paul-Scherrer Institute (PSI)
  - Photovoltaics
     Niels Jungbluth, ESU-services Ltd
  - electricity mix updates
     Rolf Frischknecht, ESU-services Ltd
• Metals for ICT
  - Introduction & modelling principles
     Hans-Jörg Althaus & Mischa Classen, Empa / TSL
  - Gold & silver
     Sybille Büsser, ESU-services Ltd
• Metals' processing and compressed air
  ESU-services Ltd
  Rolf Frischknecht
• Bioenergy and biomaterials
  - Biofuels
     Niels Jungbluth, ESU-services Ltd
  - transport with biofuels
     Niels Jungbluth, ESU-services Ltd
• Transport
  --> session cancelled.