The presentation provides an overview on the content of the ecoinvent database, of selected methodogical issues applied on the life cycle inventories implemented in the ecoinvent database and the presentation of results of energy supply systems.
With the ecoinvent data­base and its actual data v1.1 a consistent set of more than 2'700 product and service LCIs covering the energy, transport, building materials, chemicals, pulp and paper, waste management and agricultural sectors is now available.
Nearly all process datasets are trans­parently documented on the level of unit process inputs and outputs. Methodological approaches have been applied consistently throughout the entire database content and thus guarantee for a coherent set of LCI data.
One main characteristic of the database is its transparency in reporting to enable individual assessment of data appropriateness, to support the plurality in methodological approaches when using an ecoinvent dataset in another context and to allow for efficient and individual error corrections.

Vortragssprache: Englisch