It is the mission of ecoinvent to promote and support the availability of high-quality data worldwide. To fulfill this mission, we engage with intergovernmental and national data and database projects and initiatives. This year, we are proud to be participating in various important projects.
EF 3.0 Data Provision for the Product Environmental Footprint project
The ecoinvent association leads a consortium of trusted partners, including PRé Sustainability and Blonk Consultants, to provide EF 3.0-compliant background data for the transition phase of the Product Environmental Footprint project by the European Commission.
More information here.
ORIENTING EU
ecoinvent participates in the consortium working on the ORIENTING project, a 3-year project that aims at developing a robust, operational methodology for product Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment.
More information here.
GLAD EF Mapping
Besides the participation of the ecoinvent database in the GLAD network, the ecoinvent association is further involved in the ‘GLAD EF Mapping’ project, which aims at developing a common system to map the nomenclature lists for elementary flows (EFs) between databases connected to GLAD.
More information here
Institutional Partnership with Rede ACV
Since November 2020, the ecoinvent association is an institutional member of Rede ACV, the Brazilian business network for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). Within this partnership, ecoinvent supports Rede ACV’s efforts towards improving the availability and interoperability of LCA data in Brazil, and more generally in promoting life cycle thinking in the country.
More information here
US AgriData
We are proud to announce our partnership with EarthShift Global, and the official start of US AgriData project. The project goal are pilot datasets with regional differentiation for maize (grain corn), soybean, potato, and sweet corn in the US. This project will increase the coverage of US agricultural production in the ecoinvent database and lay the foundation for further expansion.
In December 2020, the ecoinvent association released version 3.7.1 of the ecoinvent database, as an update to ecoinvent 3.7 (September 2020). The latest update to the ecoinvent database included new and updated data in metals, fertilisers, forestry and wood, packaging materials, waste/recycling, and biogas supply chains. The electricity market mixes were also updated. ecoinvent 3.7.1 corrected the iron sinter production dataset, which included an error in ecoinvent 3.7. Further, ecoinvent 3.7.1 updated the zinc mining dataset with newer information from the International Zinc Association.
Watch our recorded webinar for more information about the contents of ecoinvent 3.7.1.
The ecoinvent team offers a number of webinars throughout the year in order to support users in their understanding and effective use of the ecoinvent database. Our webinars are offered free of charge, but registration in advance is advised.
In the coming months we are offering the Beginners' Guide, a series of three webinars for new users of the ecoinvent database that focus on the basics of the database, including its structure, methodology and documentation.
Calendar of webinars
22 March 2021, 4.00-5.00 PM CET: Intro to the ecoinvent database
25 March 2021, 9.00-10.00 AM CET: Intro to the ecoinvent database
29 April 2021, 4.00-5.00 PM CEST: Documentation & ecoQuery
30 April 2021, 9.00-10.00 AM CEST: Documentation & ecoQuery
20 May 2021, 4.00-5.00 PM CEST: System models in the ecoinvent database
21 May 2021, 9.00-10.00 AM CEST: System models in the ecoinvent database
Our support team remains at your disposal for any questions you may have regarding the use of the ecoinvent database.
Kind regards,
the ecoinvent team