ECO FOOD CHOICE – method development for food labelling is progressing

From 5 to 7 November 2025, the annual meeting of the EU LIFE project ECO FOOD CHOICE took place to present and discuss the results of the various partners. corsus is part of the consortium and our managing director Ulrike Eberle attended this year’s annual meeting in Paris.

How sustainable is canned fish?

Canned fish is becoming trendy. That is why SPIEGEL is addressing the question of how sustainable canned fish is this week. Our managing director, Dr Ulrike Eberle, was interviewed on this topic.

corsus presented the Food Impact Toolkit (FIT) at the International Life Cycle Management Conference

Talita F. Amado, was thrilled to present the Food Impacts Toolkit (FIT API) at the LCM 2025 conference in Palermo, Italy. FIT is an innovative open-source API designed to calculate environmental assessment scores for food products and recipes. By providing clear, regionally relevant data, FIT empowers consumers, food providers and policymakers to make informed and sustainable decisions.

Beta Version of harmonised Life Cycle Assessment methodology for agrifood products for Ecolabelling is open for consultation

A big step forward for sustainable food labelling in Europe! The Eco Food Choice project, co-funded by the EU LIFE programme, brings together nine partners from France, Spain, Germany, and the Netherlands to create a harmonised ecolabelling system for food products by 2028.
We’re excited to share that the beta version of the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology has just been released.

Biodiversity management in companies. An interview with Dr Ulrike Eberle and Dr Verena Timmer

In this interview, Dr Ulrike Eberle and Dr Verena Timmer explain how companies can integrate biodiversity into their management, because biodiversity protection is not a ‘nice-to-have’ but a key issue for the future.

Brightway, what is it and what can it do?

At corsus, we are constantly exploring better ways to understand the environmental impacts of our food choices. One of the tools helping us do this is Brightway, a powerful open-source software designed for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA),

corsus gives a presentation on the environmental impact of the new DGE dietary recommendations

At the invitation of the Bavarian State Academy for Food, Agriculture and Forestry, corsus presented the results of the first, preliminary assessment of the environmental impact of the new dietary recommendations of the German Nutrition Society (DGE) on 9 July 2025.

corsus moderates workshop to develop Hamburg’s nutrition strategy

corsus moderated a workshop on the development of Hamburg’s food strategy as part of the Hamburg Sustainability Week on 4 June 2025.

corsus presents life cycle assessment results at the Austrian World Summit in Vienna

The Austrian World Summit (AWS), organised by Arnold Schwarzenegger’s climate initiative, took place in Vienna on 3 June 2025. At a press conference held as part of the summit, Dr Ulrike Eberle presented the results of a life cycle assessment carried out by corsus on behalf of SUN AG.

Expert discussion on the environmental impact of food

ModErn looks at the environmental impact of nutrition and how this would change if we all ate according to the revised dietary recommendations of the German Nutrition Society (DGE). As part of the project, which corsus is carrying out on behalf of the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), an expert meeting was held on 16 April 2025 to discuss with experts which optimisation scenarios should be mapped on the basis of initial results.

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