Database News

This page informs you about changes made or planned in the ecoinvent database. You will also find information about updates of life cycle inventory data, and problems by which ecoinvent members may be concerned. Errors are listed which were reported by ecoinvent members or discovered by ourselves. Besides the information about the consequences of such errors, an estimated timeframe is given until when the corrected version of the dataset and / or database will be available.

This page is updated regularly - please stay tuned!

Database News

22. April 2008

ecoinvent v2.01 - report with discovered errors available

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

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02. January 2008

ecoinvent data v2.0 reports now available

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

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20. November 2007

ecoinvent data v2.0 launched

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.

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18. May 2007

Special Sale ecoinvent data v1.3 and v2.0

Subscribe now for ecoinvent data v2.0 to be released in November 2007

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30. March 2007

Paper on the environmental importance of capital goods and infrastructure published

Scientists working on ecoinvent datasets examined the iomportance of capital goods and infrastructures on the cumulative environmental impacts of products and services. The investigation revealed large differences between product...

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24. October 2006

intermediate update v1.3 released

Further improvements of LCI database quality.

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30. June 2006

Error in ecoinvent Data v1.2:

A list of errors in ecoinvent datasets can be downloaded here.

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01. November 2005

Japanese ecoinvent Database now online

Japanese ecoinvent Database now online:The content of the ecoinvent database has been translated and made available to the Japanese market by Yamatake Corp.

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25. July 2005

ecoinvent Data v1.2 online

ecoinvent Data v1.2 online:Documentation of the changes made from Data v1.1 to Data v1.2 can be downloaded here.

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23. March 2005

List of physical parameters of wood products

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02. August 2004

ecoinvent data version 1.1 is online

ecoinvent data version 1.1 is online- additional life cycle inventories (building materials, chemicals, heat pumps)- correction of errors discovered until now (see below).

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30. June 2004

Further errors in life cycle inventory datasets v1.01 (corrected in v1.1):

Further errors in life cycle inventory datasets v1.01 (corrected in v1.1):

The emission to rivers of "oil, unspecified" released by the Swiss refinery was distinctly wrong. However, as no LCIA method includes this...

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12. December 2003

Data capacity increase

Data capacity increase:The capacity of the data lines to the ecoinvent Database server has been increased by a factor 4, in order to further reduce the response time of database queries.

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25. September 2003

Going online of ecoinvent data version 1.01

Going online of ecoinvent data version 1.01While preparing the presentation on September 19, the following optimisations have been realised:- wood upstream and wood boilers: refinement of the carbon balance- global warming...

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08. January 2003

The ecoinvent website is online with a demo-version of the database.

The ecoinvent website is online with a demo-version of the database.

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07. January 2003

Preliminary list of datasets offered with ecoinvent data v1.0 available

Preliminary list of datasets offered with ecoinvent data v1.0 available (download)

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