| Time | Title | Speaker | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 | Registration, coffee | ||
| 9:00 | Welcome | Catherine Raptis (CR), Danielle Tendall (DT), Francesca Verones (FV) | ETH Zurich (Switzerland) |
| 9:10 | Water footprinting: where are we now? DF50-01 Boulay_1.pdf | Anne-Marie Boulay | CIRAIG (Canada) |
| Recent developments | |||
| 9:25 | Quantifying impacts of water use on wetlands of international importance DF50-02 Verones.pdf | Francesca Verones (FV) | ETH Zurich (Switzerland) |
| 9:45 | Endpoint characterization factors for freshwater eutrophication: testing different methods to obtain effect factors DF50-03 Azevedo.pdf | Ligia Azevedo | Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands) |
| 10:05 | Deriving an effect factor for the assessment of nitrogen emissions in brackish waters DF50-04 Papangelou.pdf | Anastasia Papangelou | ETH Zurich (Switzerland) |
| 10:15 | Discussion | ||
| 10:30 | Coffee break | ||
| Challenges/emerging topics | |||
| 11:00 | Advanced Water Stress Index DF50-05 Pfister.pdf | Stephan Pfister | ETH Zurich (Switzerland) |
| 11:20 | Integrating GIS-based regionalization into LCA calculations: the example of water DF50-06 Mutel.pdf | Chris Mutel | ETH Zurich (Switzerland) |
| 11:40 | Size and site matter: the case of river water use DF50-07 Tendall.pdf | Danielle Tendall (DT) | ART (Switzerland) |
| 12:00 | Assessing water deprivation at the sub-watershed scale in Life Cycle Assessment DF50-08 Loubet.pdf | Philippe Loubet | Veolia/Irstea (France) |
| 12:10 | Discussion | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch break | ||
| Short presentations | |||
| 13:30 | WULCA task #3: Quantitative comparison of water impact assessment methods DF50-09 Boulay_2.pdf | Anne-Marie Boulay | CIRAIG (Canada) |
| 13:40 | LCA water footprint methods and inventory datasets – What are the requirements? Where are the gaps? DF50-10 Markwardt.pdf | Stefanie Markwardt | Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Heidelberg GmbH Germany |
| 13:50 | A low-effort approach to determine water use from cradle-to-grave DF50-11 Joa.pdf | Bettina Joa | Pforzheim University (Germany) |
| Applications and experiences | |||
| 14:00 | Water Footprint of Volkswagen Passenger Cars – Results and Challenges DF50-12 Berger.pdf | Markus Berger | TU Berlin (Germany) |
| 14:20 | Water, Environment and Economy: WWF’s experiences DF50-13 Gnehm.pdf | Felix Gnehm | WWF Switzerland |
| 14:40 | Water footprinting: case studies in the food and beverage sector, learnings and gap identification DF50-14 Vionnet.pdf | Samuel Vionnet, Lindsay Lessard, Sébastien Humbert | Quantis (Switzerland) |
| 15:00 | Discussion | ||
| 15:20 | Coffee break | ||
| Workshop | |||
| 15:50 | Input (topics, summary) | CR, DT, FV | ETH Zurich (Switzerland) |
| 16:00 | Discussion | ||
| 16:30 | Plenary, Summary of outcomes | ||
| 16:50 | Wrap-up | CR, DT, FV | ETH Zurich (Switzerland) |
| 17:00 | 50th anniversary LCA DF: Apero offered by treeze | ||
| Finish |
DF 50 – WATER in LCA: Which Assessment Techniques are Emerging or Ready? Including lots of challenging aspects
Dear colleagues with an interest in Life Cycle Assessment,
We kindly invite you to the 50th discussion forum on Life Cycle Assessment.
This event will be held in English.
Water-related issues have been considered in LCA in various ways, from the long-standing eutrophication, acidification and ecotoxicity methods, to the more recent water consumption aspects. Four years on from the first discussion forum on water in LCA, many developments have been made, resulting in a rich palette of approaches. Significant challenges still remain, related to the complexity of water systems and ecosystems. New challenges have emerged, such as how to fit these “pieces” together to form a coherent and comprehensive approach for assessing the impacts of water use (both degradative and consumptive). This discussion forum will present the current status of water use assessment in LCA, give some examples of experiences in application, and identify new and remaining challenges where future effort could be concentrated.
For the first time the Discussion Forum will be available via live web streaming on www.multimedia.ethz.ch/live.
Access to the live-streaming is free but a username and password is required. To gain access to the online platform please contact Catherine Raptis (raptis@ifu.baug.ethz.ch )) indicating: a) Affiliation and b) envisaged number of online viewers per institution.
This information will allow us to appreciate the usefulness of organising live web streaming for future Discussion Forums.
The 50th anniversary of the discussion forum will be celebrated with an apéro offered by treeze at the end of the day.
Looking forward to meeting you in Zurich!
The organizers of LCA Discussion Forum DF50:
Catherine Raptis, Danielle Tendall, Francesca Verones (ETH Zurich)
Download: DF50-Water in LCA-Programme.pdf
Livestream / Videorecordings: the recordings of all presentations are published on the following platform: https://www.multimedia.ethz.ch/misc/2012/lca
All talks and discussions can be accessed individually.