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***Swiss Discussion Forum on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) 2005*
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Dissemination, application and assessment of LCA in companies*
March 18, 2005, ETH Zürich (in German)

*Life cycle approaches for Green Investment*
June 7, 2005, EPF Lausanne

*LCA in Industry: Challenges and Approaches to make it more practical*
November 17, 2005, ETH Zürich **
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*Content of the Fora:*
*
**Dissemination, application and assessment of LCA in companies*
18^th March, Zürich (in German)

400 ISO-14001-certified and 170 listed companies were asked about the 
application of life cycle assessment in the course of a research study 
of the University of St. Gallen. For the first time, empirically founded 
first hand knowledge is available on the dissemination and on the 
concrete shaping and assessment of these tools. These results serve as 
the starting point of a position finding after about 30 years of LCA 
theory and practice, expressing requirements and expectations for 
future developments.
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*Life cycle approaches for Green Investment*
7^th June, Lausanne

Nowadays, most financial institutions use some kind of environmental 
indicators such as energy, CO_2 , resources use for the assessment of 
companies. This allows them to screen a range of companies and construct 
"green" investment funds. To support effective green investments, there 
is a high need to have better criteria and tools to assess companies and 
measure their life cycle environmental performance, including supply 
chain as well as products use and disposal. The forum will explore the 
current use of environmental indicators and discuss whether and how to 
apply LCA approaches for screening listed companies with respect to 
their environmental impact.
* * **
*LCA in Industry: Challenges and Appoaches to make it more practical*
17^th November, Zürich

This forum will present practical and scientific approaches for 
performing LCA in companies, in particular chemical and material 
industry. Approaches for simplifying the application of LCA and their 
implementation in industry will be presented, such as generic inventory 
tools for chemical production and end-of-pipe processes. The discussion 
forum will facilitate the exchange of experience between practitioners 
from industry and developers of LCA tools. The applicability and 
validity of the tools presented will be discussed and conclusions will 
be drawn on practical advice and further research needs.

For more information and to apply, please open the attached word file or 
use http://www.texma.org/LCA-Forum/lca-forum.html
More information for each forum will be sent separately.

We hope that these forums will interest you,
Best regards,
The adivsory board

Olivier Jolliet, EPFL/GECOS (chair)
Yves Loerincik, EPFL/GECOS (co-ordinator)
Arthur Braunschweig, E2 Management Consulting Inc.
Rolf Frischknecht, Esu-services
Stefanie Hellweg, ETHZ/ICB
Roland Hischier, Empa
Thomas Koellner, ETHZ
Ruedi Müller-Wenk, HSG
Claude Patrick Siegenthaler, Hosei University
Marion Tobler, ETHZ
Andrea Weber Marin, ETHZ/AM

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<div align="center"><o:p></o:p><big>Swiss
Discussion Forum on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) 2005</big> 
</div>
 
Dissemination,
application and assessment of LCA in companies<o:p></o:p>
 
March 18, 2005, ETH
Z&uuml;rich (in German)<o:p></o:p>
 
<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>
 
Life
cycle approaches for Green Investment<o:p></o:p>
 
<st1:date year="2005" day="7"
 month="6">June 7, 2005</st1:date>, EPF <st1:City><st1:place>Lausanne</st1:place></st1:City><o:p></o:p>
 
<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>
 
LCA
in Industry: Challenges and Approaches to make it more practical<o:p></o:p>
 
<st1:date year="2005" day="17"
 month="11">November 17, 2005</st1:date>, ETH Z&uuml;rich<o:p></o:p>
<o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p> 
<o:p></o:p>
 
Content
of the Fora:<o:p></o:p> 
<big> 
</big><big>Dissemination,
application and assessment of LCA in companies</big> 
18th
March, Z&uuml;rich (in German)<o:p></o:p>
 
<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>
 
400
ISO-14001-certified and 170 listed com&shy;panies
were asked about the application of life cycle assess&shy;ment in the
course of a
research study of the <st1:place><st1:PlaceType>University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName>St. Gallen</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>.
For the first time, empirically founded first hand know&shy;ledge is
available on
the disse&shy;mi&shy;nation and on the concrete shaping and assessment of these
tools.
These results serve as the starting point of a position finding after
about 30
years of LCA theory and practice, expressing requirements and
ex&shy;pecta&shy;tions
for future developments. <o:p></o:p>
 
<o:p></o:p><big></big> 
<big>Life
cycle approaches for Green Investment</big> 
7th
June, <st1:City><st1:place>Lausanne</st1:place></st1:City><o:p></o:p>
 
<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>
 
Nowadays, most
financial institutions use some kind
of en&shy;viron&shy;mental indicators such as energy, CO2, resources
use for
the assessment of companies. This allows them to screen a range of
companies
and construct "green" investment funds. To support effective green
investments, there is a high need to have better criteria and tools to
assess
companies and measure their life cycle environmental performance,
including
supply chain as well as products use and disposal. The forum will
explore the
current use of environ&shy;men&shy;tal indicators and discuss whether and how to
apply LCA ap&shy;proaches for screening listed companies with respect to
their
environmental impact.<o:p></o:p>
 
<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>
 
<big>LCA in
Industry: Challenges and Appoaches to make it more practical</big> 
17th
November, Z&uuml;rich<o:p></o:p>
 
 
This
forum will present practical and scientific ap&shy;proaches for performing
LCA in
companies, in parti&shy;cu&shy;lar chemical and material industry. Approaches
for sim&shy;pli&shy;fying
the application of LCA and their implementation in in&shy;dustry will be
presented, such as generic
inventory
tools for chemical production and end-of-pipe processes. The discussion
forum
will facilitate the exchange of ex&shy;pe&shy;rience between practitioners from
industry and de&shy;ve&shy;lopers of LCA tools. The applicability and validity
of the
tools presented will be discussed and conclusions will be drawn on
practical
advice and further research needs. 
 
For more information and to apply, please open the attached word file
or use <a href="http://www.texma.org/LCA-Forum/lca-forum.html">http://www.texma.org/LCA-Forum/lca-forum.html</a> 
More information for each forum will be sent separately. 
 
We hope that
these forums will interest you, 
Best regards, 
The adivsory board 
 
Olivier
Jolliet, EPFL/GECOS (chair) 
Yves Loerincik, EPFL/GECOS
(co-ordinator) 
Arthur Braunschweig, E2
Management Consulting Inc. 
Rolf Frischknecht,
Esu-services 
Stefanie Hellweg, ETHZ/ICB 
Roland Hischier, Empa 
Thomas Koellner, ETHZ 
Ruedi M&uuml;ller-Wenk, HSG 
Claude Patrick Siegenthaler,
Hosei University 
Marion Tobler, ETHZ 
Andrea Weber Marin, ETHZ/AM 
<o:p> 
</o:p>


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