DF 19 – Life Cycle Impact Assessment of Pesticides – When Active Substances are Spread into the Environment


ETH Zürich, Main Building G60

TimeTitleSpeakerAffiliation
9.30Registration, Coffee  
9.45Welcome and Introduction Prof. Konrad HungerbühlerETH Zürich
10.00Impacts of Pesticide Leaching in an LCA on the product development of pesticides Georg GeislerETH Zürich
10.45Estimating pesticide emissions for life cycle assessment of agricultural products Prof. Michael HauschildTechnical University of Denmark
11.30Break  
11.45Pesticides fate in agricultural plants and related impacts on human health Prof. Olivier JollietEPF Lausanne
12.30Short presentations  
 Pesticides effect evaluation in the LCA of greenhouse tomato crops Maria Assumpció AntónIRTA, Cabrils, Spain
 Pesticides in cotton agriculture Sebastien HumbertEPF Lausanne
13.00Lunch  
14.00Short presentations  
 Environmental LCA assessment of the Swiss federal program "extensive production of cereals and rape seed" Dr. Gerard GaillardSwiss Federal Research Station for Agroecology and Agriculture, Reckenholz
 Risk assessment of pesticide in rivers for single substances and for mixtures Nathalie ChèvreEAWAG, Dübendorf
 Life Cycle Impact Assessment of Life Cycle Impact Assessment of pesticides on aquatic ecosystems pesticides on aquatic ecosystems The AMI method The AMI method (Assessment of Mean Impact) Jerome PayetEPF Lausanne
14.45Environmental Fate and Exposure Assessments for Pesticides - Risk assessments and Regional Mass balances Dr. Andreas HuberSyngenta Crop Protection AG, Basel
15.30Environmental Safety of Pesticides Dr. Markus D. MüllerPlant Protection Chemistry, Swiss Federal Research Station, Wädenswil
16.15Final discussion  
16.45End of the Forum  

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