Staff members of ESU-services work in several international and national organisations as experts for the development of standards, laws or guidelines for life cycle assessment. Some of these development processes are listed below:

• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC
• UNEP-SETAC life cycle initiative. Development of methodological guidelines
• New Greenhouse Gas Protocoll Standard, Process organized by World Ressource Institute (WRI) and World Buisness Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
• CEN TC 350 standard: Sustainability assessment of buildings
• CEN TC 383 standard: Sustainably produced biomass for energy applications
• Swiss law on tax exemption for biofuels (Treibstoff-Ökobilanz-Verordnung)
• SIA commission 2032: Technical bulletin on embodied energy and carbon footprints of buildings
• SIA commission 493: environmental declaration of building materials

Experts of ESU-services work for different research organizations as peer reviewers of research proposals and programmes.

• Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, DE
• European Commission,  DG RTD Environment Directorate, EU
• Fonds National de la Recherche, LU
• French Food Research Programme ALIA, FR