LCA web links
Swiss LCA information
International
- UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative
- International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
- U.S. EPA Life Cycle Assessment Website
- Information for Businesses and Local Authorities by the European Environment Agency
- Ask Pablo. Answers on LCA related questions.
- The story of stuff. Film which explains life cycle thinking.
LCA Databases
- ecoinvent - Swiss Centre for Life Cycle Inventories
- Databases for SimaPro, Pré Consultants, The Netherlands
- Databases for Umberto, ifeu Institute Heidelberg, Germany
- GEMIS Database Database for Power Development of Ökoinstitut Darmstadt, Germany
Web calculators for consumers
- WWF Klimacheck. Tool to calculate the personal CO2 Emissions in Switzerland
- Le climat entre nos mains. Calculez vos CO2 émissions
- Mahlzeiten-Check, World Vision mit Daten von ESU
- LCA-Web-calculator for the environmental impacts of food consumption, Umweltfolgen des Lebensmitteleinkaufs (ULME) to calculate the environmental impacts of food consumption
- ECO2 Privat. Tool to calculate the personal CO2 Emissions in Switzerland
- Klima-Rechner of the German Umweltbundesamt
- CO2-Rechner by GLS. Tool to calculate the personal CO2 Emissions for Germany.
- CO2-Balance calculator for Germany by IFEU
- CO2-Rechner by bp. Tool to calculate the personal CO2 Emissions for some other countries, e.g. Germany
- UmweltMobilCheck der Deutschen Bahn
- Footprint test. Tool by WWF to calculate the personal footprint in Switzerland
- Ein interaktives Lifestyle-Tool des World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF)
- Ecological Footprint for meals
- Water footprint calculator
- Several other web calculators including electricity, district heat, heat pumps and transportation developed by ESU-services