Life Cycle Assessment Archive

corsus develops cotton Life Cycle Assessments for cotton made in Africa (CmiA)

4. June 2026/by Corsus

corsus creates Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) for the cotton production and producers participating in “Cotton made in Africa (CmiA)”, one of the world’s leading standards for sustainably produced cotton. Aid by Trade Foundation (AbTF) sets the standard and commissions periodic reviews of the CmiA standard’s environmental impact to jointly improve cultivation conditions with local farmers. The standard aims to improve the living and working conditions of local small-scale farmers through a ‘help for self-help’ approach by using trade instead of donations and by promoting environmental protection.

Expert discussion on the environmental impact of nutrition

19. December 2025/by Corsus

The project ModErn – Modeling the Ecological Effects of the Revised DGE Dietary Recommendations – examines the environmental impact of nutrition and how this would change if everyone followed the dietary recommendations of the German Nutrition Society (DGE) or the recommendations of the Planetary Health Diet 2.0 of the Eat Lancet Commission. As part of the project, which corsus is carrying out on behalf of the German Environment Agency (UBA), an expert discussion was held on December 9, 2025, to present and discuss the results. The expert discussion was moderated by Dr. Krishan Gairola, with Dr. Ulrike Eberle and Felix Lücking presenting the results.

ECO FOOD CHOICE – method development for food labelling is progressing

12. November 2025/by Corsus

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?

8. October 2025/by Corsus

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

12. September 2025/by Corsus

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

10. September 2025/by Corsus

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

25. August 2025/by Corsus

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?

6. August 2025/by Corsus

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

23. July 2025/by Corsus

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

9. July 2025/by Corsus

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