| Time | Title | Speaker | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 | Registration, Coffee and Croissants | ||
| 9:15 | Welcome DF45-01 Josef Känzig.pdf | Josef Känzig | Effizienzagentur Schweiz AG |
| Environmental impacts of Swiss consumption and production | |||
| 9:20 | Measuring total environmental impacts of Swiss consumption – needs and expectations from a policy perspective DF45-02 Loa Buchli.pdf | Loa Buchli | FOEN |
| 9:35 | Using input-output analysis for environmental analysis DF45-03 Carsten Nathani.pdf | Carsten Nathani | Rütter+Partner |
| 10:00 | Extending the IOA for investigating the environmental impacts of Swiss consumption and production DF45-04 Niels Jungbluth.pdf | Niels Jungbluth | ESU-services Ltd. |
| 10:30 | Discussion | ||
| 10:50 | Coffee break | ||
| Further research examples from Switzerland | |||
| 11:20 | Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) on economic sectors of Jordan based on I/O analysis with an adapted version of the ecological scarcity method DF45-05 Fredy Dinkel.pdf | Fredy Dinkel, Marc Bachmann | Carbotech |
| 11:40 | Use of IOA and combination of economic and environmental data in ecoinvent v3 DF45-06 Bo Weidema.pdf | Bo Weidema | ecoinvent Centre |
| 12:00 | Discussion | ||
| Short presentations | |||
| 12:10 | External Cost Values to be Applied in the EE IO Framework of EXIOPOL DF45-07 Wolf Müller.pdf | Wolf Müller | IER Stuttgart |
| Using the Swiss ecological input-output analysis 2005 in municipal solid waste management – the case of glass packages DF45-08 Grégoire Meylan.pdf | Helen Ami, Grégoire Meylan | Umweltnatur- und Umweltsozial- wissenschaften, ETH Zürich | |
| Evaluation of process- and Input-Output-based Life Cycle Inventory Data with Regard to Truncation and Aggregation Issues DF45-09 Guillaume Majeau-Bettez.pdf | Guillaume Majeau-Bettez | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | |
| 12:30 | Lunch break | ||
| Similar studies and approaches in other countries | |||
| 13:35 | Environmental impact of production and consumption in the US economy (video conference) DF45-10 Sangwon Suh.pdf | Sangwon Suh | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 14:00 | Approach and results in the EXIOPOL and other European EE-IOA projects DF45-11 Arnold Tukker.pdf | Arnold Tukker | TNO |
| 14:30 | Parallel Workshops with examples of using EE-IOA in practical work incl. Coffee break | ||
| Using Swiss EE-IOA data in SimaPro LCA software DF45-12 Niels Jungbluth.pdf | Niels Jungbluth | ESU-services Ltd. | |
| Providing economic data for ecoinvent v3 (Room 303, FOEN) | Bo Weidema | ecoinvent Centre | |
| Using EE-IOA data in EMIS (Room 302, FOEN) | Fredy Dinkel | Carbotech | |
| Coffee break | |||
| 16:20 | Feedback, wrap-up and farewell | Niels Jungbluth, discussants | ESU-services Ltd. |
DF 45 – Environmentally-Extended Input-Output-Analysis and LCA
Input-Output tables (IOT) are an economic methodology in order to investigate and analyse different production and consumption sectors in a given country or economic region. Such IOT can be extended with information on emissions and resource uses in order to analyse environmental impacts in relation to economic outputs or expenditures of production and consumption sectors. The instrument of environmentally-extended input-output-analysis (EE-IOA) thus allows the analysis of environmental impacts for whole countries better than life cycle assessment (LCA). By some researchers this type of analysis is also used as an alternative or supplement to LCA. Data from such an approach can be combined with LCA in hybrid-analysis in order to estimate the environmental impacts of inputs for which LCI data are missing.
So far environmentally extended input-output-analysis was rarely used in Switzerland mainly because of lack of data. A Swiss study has recently investigated the total environmental impacts of Swiss consumption and production with this approach (https://www.esu-services.ch/projects/ioa/). Within this project a hybrid-methodology was developed for assessing the imports by combining trade statistics and LCA data. This is of specific importance for a Swiss analysis because of the large dependency on trade with foreign countries. The inventory data are freely available in EcoSpold format and can thus be used by LCA practitioners (https://www.lc-inventories.ch). They cover all emissions and resources that are assessed with the ecological scarcity method 2006. The study shows that environmental impacts due to imports are more important than domestic impacts.
The forum will also discuss the economic background, uncertainties and possible improvement options of such an analysis. International speakers are invited and will provide a broader view on this approach. The application of EE-IOA data in different types of software will be explained in workshops.
We invite all LCA practitioners and other people interested in this approach and results from this study.
We look forward to meeting you in Berne!
Niels Jungbluth (ESU-services), Carsten Nathani (Rütter+Partner) & Josef Känzig (FOEN)
Download: DF45-EE-IOT-Programme-1.0.pdf