Wednesday, Oct. 4

Registration & administration (8th floor, continuing throughout conference)

Break

Opening Plenary
Keynote: Ed Pinero (White House Federal Environmental Executive)
Peter Repinski (UNEP)
D.W. Pennington (European Commission)

12:00 Noon

Lunch - Wayne Trusty (Athena Sustainable Materials Institute)

LCA in Decision Making 1: the public sector/ private sector interface

Life Cycle Metrics for Product Environmental Management: Principles and Practices
David Spitzley

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) as part of Life Cycle Management (LCM) in daily application within corporations
Harald Florin, Marc Binder, Daniel Coen

Assessing the LCA data and methodology used for the Energy using Products (EuP) directive
Michiel Oele, Mark Goedkoop

The European Platform on Life Cycle Assessment a project to support life cycle thinking in business and policy making in Europe
D.W. Pennington, M. Wolf, R. Bersani

US LCI Database Workshop: the value proposition

A life-cycle assessment of farmed and wild salmon: Panel presentations and discussion

Astrid Scholz, Ecotrust
Ulf Sonesson, Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology

Break

Impact Methods 1: risk, landuse, and eco-indicators

Comparing North American and European Methods to Characterize the Environmental Impacts of Common Processes
Philip White

Investigating the Impact of Nanoparticle Production
Evangelia Demou, Philippe Peter, Stefanie Hellweg

Development of Risk Assessment Methodology for A Product System
Ik Kim, Kyung-hwan Kim, Mann-young Kim, Tak Hur, Young-man Noh

LCA in Decision Making 2: government decision making

Eco-Efficiency of Local Development by Local Governments using LCA and Stated Preference Method
Hideaki KURISHIMA, Haruki SETOYAMA, Kiyotaka TAHARA, Yutaka GENCHI, Atsushi INABA

Interdisciplinary LCA in Government Decision Making: Producing Electricity from Forest Wildfire Fuels Treatments
Joyce Cooper, Gus Takala, Mark Nechodom

LCA as a Metric for Selection of Recipients for Intergenerational Bonds
Rita Schenck, Hank Patton, Amory Lovins

Applying the Principles and Practice of LCA to Green Procurement Initiatives
Scott Canonico

The US Database Experience

The U.S. LCI Database: What is it and How is it Used
Michael Deru and Wayne Trusty

Making the US LCI Database More User Friendly – The Cradle-to-Resin Database for Plastics
Bev Sauer and Bill Franklin

Experience of LCI Database Update – chemical processes case
Cecilia Tiemi Makishi, Martin Baitz, Harald Florin, Matthias Fischer

LCA in fish farming and seafood

Co-Product Allocation in Life Cycle Assessment of Seafood Production Systems: A Review of Allocation Problems and Applied Strategies
Nathan Ayer, Nathan Pelletier, Peter Tyedmers, Ulf Sonesson, Astrid Scholz

IMPLEMENTATION OF LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT ON FISH PRODUCTS
Wahyu Supartono and Elmar Schlich (presenter)

Life Cycle Measures of Sustainability in Seafood Production: Implications for Ecolabeling, Certification and Consumer Education Programs
Nathan L. Pelletier, Peter H. Tyedmers, Nathan W. Ayer, Sarah A. Kruse, Anna Flysjo, Astrid J. Scholz and Ulf Sonesson

6:30-9:00 PM

Reception at Jury's Washington Hotel
1500 New Hampshire Ave (across from Dupont Circle Metro)