Events under participation of ESU-services
ESU-services is activly involved in organizing or partizipating in several events related to LCA.
Lecture at the ETH Zurich
Jungbluth N. (2010) Environmental Impacts of Food Products Investigated in Life Cycle Assessment. Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich - ETH, Seminar , 13. April, 2010
2. Swiss Forum of Electric Mobility
On 25th and 26th of January 2011, the 2nd Swiss Forum of Electric Mobility takes place in Lucerne. More information about this event is available from our German and French website.
- Download the presentation slides about the life cycle assessment of electric mobility (in German).
lcafood 2010
The lnternational Conference on LCA in the Agri-Food sector will be held in Bari - Italy - from 22 to 24 September 2010. It is the seventh in a series including Brussels (1996, 1998), Gothenburg, (2001, 2007), Horsens (2003), Zurich (2008). Niels Jungbluth is member of the scientific committee organizing this conference.
2nd International Congress on Biodiesel
Niels Jungbluth will present results concerning sustainability aspects of biodiesel during an interanational congress which will take place November, 15-17 in Munich.
Nationale Fachtagung der SGE
Niels Jungbluth will give a presentation during the Nationale Fachtagung der SGE in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Bundesamt für Landwirtschaft BLW, Agroscope und dem Bundesamt für Umwelt BAFU: "Lebensmitteleinkauf: Die Qual der Wahl Bio? Regional? Saisonal?" Donnerstag, 17. September 2009, Inselspital Bern, Saal Ettore Rossi (Kinderklinik). Programm
Int. Conf. on LCA in the Agri-Food Sector, Zurich, November 12-14, 2008
The LCA research group of Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon Research Station ART organizes the Sixth International Conference on Life Cycle Assessment in the Agri-Food Sector, took place in Zurich, November 12-14, 2008. The presentations and posters from the Sixth International Conference on Life Cycle Assessment in the Agri-Food Sector are now available online on the conference web site http://www.lcafood08.ch three main objectives of the meeting were:
- to show recent developments in terms of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology, approaches, databases and tools related to the agri-food sector
- to present applications of the LCA methodology in new case studies or case studies showing new aspects in various food- and raw material- chains (crop production, animal husbandry, fish farming, feedstuff, bio energy, etc.)
- to present successful examples of communication of LCA results to stakeholders and their use in decision making in the agri-food sector.
ESU-services particpates in the preparation. On Friday afternoon we presented the LCA software SimaPro and databases on food in a workshop.
N. Jungbluth: Accounting for biogenic NMVOC emissions in LCA. 6th International Conference on LCA in the Agri-Food Sector, Zurich, November 12–14, 2008.
2nd international ecoinvent meeting, 14.3.2008, ETH Lausanne
The following presentations were made by staff members of ESU-services Ltd.:
- Rolf Frischknecht, The ecoinvent database: a success story.
- Niels Jungbluth, Biomass production: Raw materials for biofuels.
- Niels Jungbluth, Energy supply: Photovoltaics.
- Rolf Frischknecht, Energy supply: electricity mix updates.
- Sybille Büsser, Metals: Gold & silver.
- Rolf Frischknecht, Metals' processing and compressed air.
- Niels Jungbluth, Bioenergy and biomaterials: Biofuels.


