How to conduct your first LCA (Life Cycle Assessment)

Target audience

People who want to understand the environmental impact associated with their project. For beginners and intermediates.

Workshop topic

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) - a key method to understand and quantifiy the environmental footprint of your project.

Key elements of the workshop

You want to change the world by developing better products or systems. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) comprehensively assesses the environmental impacts of products and services, covering the entire value chain in a streamlined manner. In this workshop, you'll learn the principles and fundamental concepts of LCA and how it can be used. You'll gain a basic understanding of LCA and be introduced to the tools and data available to ETH students, empowering you to conduct your own LCA. For those interested in becoming experts, additional lectures are available.

About the speaker

Stephan Pfister is an Adjunct Professor at ETH Zurich, working in the Ecological Systems Design group at the Institute of Environmental Engineering. He earned his PhD from ETH Zurich, focusing on the impact assessment of water consumption and land use in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). His current research delves into the environmental impacts of agriculture, power production, and mineral mining, with a strong emphasis on global supply chains. He co-founded an ETH Spin-Off in 2010 and is board member of ecoinvent, which is the world market leader for LCA databases.

Host or Publisher ETH Student Project House