ESU experts provide their expertise for the standardisation of life cycle assessments
Staff members of ESU-services work in several international and national organizations as experts for the development of standards, laws or guidelines for life cycle assessment. Some of these development processes are listed below:
- National expert in the standard development working group ISO PC 248 (Sustainability criteria for bioenergy)
- Nestle Zukunfts Forum: Wie viel Umwelt kosten Lebensmittel?
- Invited expert for the Californian project "GHGs in the Food System", UC Davis
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC
- UNEP-SETAC life cycle initiative. Development of methodological guidelines
- Product Life Cycle Accounting and Reporting Standard, Greenhouse Gas Protocol, Process organized byWorld Ressource Institute (WRI) and World Buisness Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
- CEN TC 350 standard: Sustainability assessment of buildings
- CEN TC 383 standard: Sustainability criteria for the production of biofuels and bioliquids for energy applications
- Swiss law on tax exemption for biofuels (Treibstoff-Ökobilanz-Verordnung)
- SIA commission 2032: Technical bulletin on embodied energy and carbon footprints of buildings
- SIA commission 493: environmental declaration of building materials
