OASES Open Assessment of Swiss Economy and Society

In the short video here above, PhD student external page Aleksandra Kim gives a brief overview of the project (if the video is not available in your region, please use this external page link).

This project will quantify the global environmental and social burdens associated with current Swiss production and consumption from a life-cycle perspective. It will substantially improve on the current state of knowledge by adaptively coupling detailed process-specific inventory data from the ecoinvent database with multi-regional industry-sector specific input-output (MRIO) data from the EXIOBASE database. Special attention will be dedicated to the scientifically sound combination of data from different sources, aggregation levels, and physical/economic layers. We will also integrate quantitative social indicators from the Social Hotspots Database into the ecoinvent database. Based on this global, consistent, and comprehensive dataset, we will identify location-dependent hot spots and leverage points for the environmental and social impacts of Swiss production and consumption, and determine areas where improvements carry the smallest economic burdens or even provide economic benefits. We will also consider and quantify resource dependencies, criticalities, and risks of key Swiss industries. During the project, we will create or update inventory data shown to be particularly important, uncertain, or outdated.

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Collaboration 

OASES is a collaborative project between external page Paul Scherrer Institut, external page Empa, external page Ecoinvent and external page University of Freiburg. Aleksandra Kim is affiliated to the external page Laboratory for Energy Systems Analysis (LEA) of PSI and the chair of Ecological Systems Design of ETH.