The ecoinvent database is widely recognized and respected, making us the leading source for environmental life cycle assessments.
The ecoinvent database is widely recognized and respected, making us the leading source for environmental life cycle assessments.
Our partners range from multinational corporations to leading universities who share our commitment to promoting sustainable practices and using high-quality and transparent data.
At ecoinvent, we understand the importance of reliable and accurate data for your business. Our database is implemented in leading software tools across various applications. From eco-calculators and eco-design tools to expert LCA tools and business software tools like Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Computer-Aided Design (CAD), we strive to provide you with the most comprehensive data available.
We are proud to collaborate with various consultancies that offer a range of sustainability services such as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). Our partners use the latest version of the ecoinvent Database to ensure the provision of the most accurate and reliable data available.
At ecoinvent, we are committed to promoting the use of high-quality data for environmental assessments globally. We engage in partnerships, initiatives, and projects that aim to promote good practices in the creation and use of life cycle inventories worldwide.
Below is a selected overview of the organizations, companies, and research institutes that trust and utilize ecoinvent’s database. These partnerships advance our mission to promote a more sustainable future.
Atlantic Consulting, founded in 1994, specialises in energy, fuels, and chemicals. They specialize in LCA and carbon footprints, as well as techno-economic and market analyses. Atlantic provides independent, authoritative expertise.
Blonk, a Mérieux NutriSciences Company, is a global leader in food system sustainability. Their multidisciplinary team, consisting of agri-food and sustainability experts, software developers, and data specialists, helps organizations understand their environmental impact in the agri-food value chain. Team Blonk provides tailored advice and develops data and software solutions based on the latest scientific developments to advance sustainability.
Carbotech AG is an environmental consulting company located in Switzerland. They provide a basis for sound decision-making through life cycle assessments, the analysis of material flows, and modelling complex systems. Carbotech implements a systematic approach to sustainability-related issues in collaboration with its national and international clients in the public and private sectors. Carbotech stays up-to-date and close to practice by teaching and developing its methods and performing audits of businesses and industries.
Cauldron is a Swiss-based consultancy specialising in LCA data, software, and technical workflows. As the team behind Brightway—the leading open-source LCA framework—Cauldron helps organisations solve their LCA data and software challenges: migrations, custom Brightway deployments, data harmonisation, and hands-on training and support. For teams that want more control, flexibility, and transparency in how they do LCA, Cauldron provides the technical expertise to make it happen.
ClimatePartner is a solution provider for corporate climate action: They combine individual consulting with a cloud-based software that is unique on the market. They help their customers calculate and reduce carbon emissions and offset unavoidable emissions. This renders products, services and companies climate neutral, which is confirmed by their label.
Dr. Werner Environment & Development, founded in 2003, specialises in the elaboration of decision support for sustainable development and resource use. Its consulting services include comparative product life cycle assessment, carbon footprinting and environmental product declarations. The company stands for scientifically founded, interdisciplinary, personal and flexible, client-oriented solutions, which we develop in a proven network of partner companies and institutions.
EarthShift Global’s team helps top-level executives, front-line practitioners, academic researchers, and policymakers worldwide achieve their sustainability goals and objectives by providing Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) software, consulting services, and training that demystifies the path to sustainability. Our proven approach emphasizes engagement, adaptability, and credible, measurable results, as well as incorporating performance-enhancing sustainable thinking into everyday business decisions.
Gabor Doka (Master of Science, Chemistry, University of Zurich, Switzerland) is a self-employed researcher in LCA since 1995 and co-author of the ETH/ecoinvent inventories database since 1992. Over the years, he has been involved in many LCA projects, with a focus on urban and industrial waste disposal activities, but also on photovoltaic energy, power plants, mobility, mining, and impact assessment methodology development, among others. Since 2009, he has been the editor for the topic of waste and sewage disposal in the ecoinvent database, but he continues to contribute to LCA on a wide range of topics.
GreenDelta is an independent sustainability consulting and software company located in Berlin, Germany, founded in 2004. They provide internationally leading services that cover all aspects of software and consulting in sustainability.
Hedgehog Company, based in Amsterdam, provides sustainability consulting using a threefold strategy: assess, plan, and implement. They simplify sustainability with a data-driven approach, conducting Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) and (corporate) carbon footprints. They serve clients from startups to large SMEs across various sectors and assist with regulatory compliance, including CSRD and ESPR. Hedgehog Company brings clarity and actionable insights to the sustainability journey.