Providing data on the production processes can offer various benefits for companies, industrial associations and research institutes and many have helped to generate inventory data for the ecoinvent database.
ecoinvent provides the review process for free. You give us permission to publish your data in the database and your time for the submission. We give you technical support during the datasets creation and submission and the external review.
In a few, justified cases unit process information may also be kept confidential by submitting datasets as restricted datasets, in which case only the cradle-to-gate results will be visible for the database users.
The availability of independently reviewed and accepted inventory data on your products and supply chain offers many benefits.
Contact us
If you are interested in the possibility of providing data to the ecoinvent database contact us at support@ecoinvent.org.
Broad Acceptance
Your data will become part of the most used transparent Life Cycle Inventory databases wordwide.
Free Review
ecoinvent provides the review process for free as well as coordinating and assisting data collection efforts. Through the independent review procedure carried out by the ecoinvent editorial board we ensure that all data meets our high quality standards and in turn your data gains in credibility.
Environmental Commitment
Providing data to an association as ecoinvent demonstrates the environmental commitment of a company and it makes future inquiries about the sustainability standards of a company much simpler.
Trustworthy LCIA Results
ecoinvent is a transparent and not-for-profit database making it trustworthy source of LCI and LCIA results.
By following the ecoinvent code of practice and Data Quality Guidelines companies gain easy access to Life Cycle Assessments of their products and supply chains.
Academic Recognition
If you provide data to the ecoinvent database your name and contact information will be displayed in the dataset you submitted to the database.
You are giving us the rights to publish your data in the database. You are still remaining the owner of your data and can publish it anywhere else (e.g. scientific journal, public LCA study, PhD thesis, etc.).
Possibility to Brand Datasets
If companies prefer to be specifically mentioned they have the option of providing branded datasets to demonstrate the sustainability of their production.
Unit process information may also be kept confidential by submitting datasets as restricted datasets, in which case only the cradle-to-gate results will be visible for the database users.