[ecodesign] DF 26: Life Cycle Approaches for Green Investment

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**26th LCA Discussion Forum*
*Life Cycle Approaches for Green Investment*
June 7, 2005, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Room 
CO 016

Dear Sir or Madam,

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne is 
organizing a forum on *Green Investment* on the *7th of June in 
Lausanne*, joining together SRI (Socially Responsible Investment) 
professionals and scientists working in the quantitative assessment of 
environmental impacts.

*Life cycle thinking* has the potential to provide the basis for better 
criteria and tools to assess companies and measure their life cycle 
environmental performance. It is a powerful, inclusive and quantitative 
approach going further the traditional production-centred view and 
considering direct and indirect impacts, including supply chain as well 
as products use and disposal. Life-cycle analysis already gave proof of 
its usefulness to evaluate, for example, environmental aspects of 
sustainable production and consumption.

The 26th LCA discussion forum aims first at exploring the environmental 
side of SRI (Socially Responsible Investment). How do the various 
actors, investors and environmental analysts, choose the companies for 
investment? What are their main criteria, objectives and corresponding 
investment & risk management philosophies? Both qualitative and 
quantitative methods as well as the link between environmental and 
economic performances will be discussed. The second aim is to determine 
and illustrate how life cycle approaches can be practically used in the 
area of SRI, i.e., to identify key environmental issues within each 
sector, to ease the analysis of companies and to propose alternative 
benchmarks for environmental performance measures.

In particular the 26^th LCA Forum will look at:

·         Is green investment really leverage for a more sustainable 
development?
·         What are the current qualitative and quantitative approaches?
·         What is the link between economic and environmental performance?

 How can life-cycle thinking provide the basis for:

·          Assessing the environmental performance of green and 
traditional funds?
·          Assessing the quality of published data?
·          Reducing the number of monitored indicators by concentrating 
on key issues?
·          Helping companies to understand their environmental impacts?

*Proposals for additional short presentations (10 min) are welcome.*

We are persuaded that this forum will be of interest to all interested 
in Socially Responsible Investment and we are looking forward to 
welcoming you in Lausanne.

Best regards.

Prof. Olivier Jolliet, Damien Friot, Yves Loerincik, for the Industrial 
Ecology - Life Cycle Systems group, EPFL & Thomas Köllner from NSSI-ETHZ

Information on the LCA Discussion Forums can be found on the following 
website: http://texma.org/lcaforum/

Contact: LCAforum@epfl.ch

Practicalities:

* The forum takes place in Lausanne, at the EPF and will be held in english

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LCA Forum
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CH-1015 Lausanne
tel: ++ 41 21 693 57 46
fax: ++ 41 21 693 57 60
lcaforum@epfl.ch <mailto:lcaforum@epfl.ch>
http://texma.org/lcaforum/

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<big><big><big>26th
LCA Discussion Forum</big></big></big><big><big><big> 
<big>Life Cycle Approaches
for Green Investment</big></big></big></big><big><big><big><big><big><big><big><big><big><st1:date
 year="2004" day="2" month="12"> 
June 7, 2005</st1:date>,
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<big>Dear Sir or Madam,<o:p></o:p></big>
<big><o:p></o:p></big>
<big>The Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne is organizing a forum on Green
Investment on the 7th of June in Lausanne, joining together
SRI&nbsp;(Socially Responsible Investment) professionals
and scientists working in the quantitative assessment of environmental
impacts.<o:p></o:p></big> <o:p></o:p>
Life
cycle thinking has the potential to provide the basis for better
criteria and
tools to assess companies and measure their life cycle environmental
performance. It is a powerful, inclusive and quantitative approach
going
further the traditional production-centred view and considering direct
and
indirect impacts, including supply chain as well as products use and
disposal.
Life-cycle analysis already gave proof of its usefulness to evaluate,
for
example, environmental aspects of sustainable production and
consumption.<o:p></o:p>
The
26th LCA discussion forum aims first at exploring the environmental
side of SRI
(Socially Responsible Investment). How do the various actors, investors
and
environmental analysts, choose the companies for investment? What are
their
main criteria, objectives and corresponding investment &amp; risk
management
philosophies? Both qualitative and quantitative methods as well as the
link
between environmental and economic performances will be discussed. The
second
aim is to determine and illustrate how life cycle approaches can be
practically
used in the area of SRI, i.e., to identify key environmental issues
within each
sector, to ease the analysis of companies and to propose alternative
benchmarks
for environmental performance measures.<o:p></o:p>
In particular the 26th
LCA Forum will look at:<o:p></o:p>
&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Is
green investment
really leverage for a more sustainable development?<o:p></o:p> 
&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
What
are the current
qualitative and quantitative approaches?<o:p></o:p> 
&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
What
is the link between
economic and environmental performance?<o:p></o:p> 

&nbsp;How
can life-cycle thinking provide the basis for:<o:p></o:p>
&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Assessing
the
environmental performance of green and traditional funds?<o:p></o:p> 
&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Assessing
the quality of
published data?<o:p></o:p> 
&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Reducing
the number of
monitored indicators by concentrating on key issues?<o:p></o:p> 
&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Helping companies to
understand their environmental impacts?<o:p></o:p>
Proposals
for additional short presentations (10 min) are welcome.<o:p></o:p>
We
are persuaded that this forum will be of interest to all interested in
Socially
Responsible Investment and we are looking forward to welcoming you in
Lausanne.<o:p></o:p>
Best
regards.<o:p></o:p>
Prof.
Olivier Jolliet, Damien Friot, Yves Loerincik, for the Industrial
Ecology &#8211;
Life Cycle Systems group, EPFL &amp; Thomas K&ouml;llner from NSSI-ETHZ<o:p></o:p>
<big>
</big>
<big></big>Information
on the LCA Discussion Forums can be found
on the following website:&nbsp;<a href="http://texma.org/lcaforum/">http://texma.org/lcaforum/</a>
<big></big>
<big><o:p></o:p></big>
<big>Contact:
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:LCAforum@epfl.ch">LCAforum@epfl.ch</a><big> 
 
Practicalities:
 
 
* The forum takes place in Lausanne, at the EPF and will be held in
english
 
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