Special panel discussion: EcoBalance+20

In commemoration of the twenty-year history of the EcoBalance conferences, we are organizing a special panel discussion in the closing plenary session, concerning the prospect of further promoting life-cycle thinking in the next twenty years. We have invited the following distinguished speakers in this panel discussion to review LCA studies conducted during the last two decades, to raise issues to be resolved, and to provide future perspectives on the next twenty years of LCA.

• Matthias Finkbeiner (Professor, Department of Environmental Technology, Technical University of Berlin; Chairperson, ISO/TC 207/SC 5 Life Cycle Assessment)
• Guido Sonnemann (Professor, ISM-CyVi, University of Bordeaux; Co-founder and former Programme Officer, the UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative)
• Kohmei Halada (NIMS Invited Researcher, Research Center for Strategic Materials, National Institute for Materials Science; President, The Institute of Life Cycle Assessment, Japan)
• Atsushi Inaba (Professor, Department of Environmental and Energy Chemistry, Kogakuin University; Former President of The Institute of Life Cycle Assessment, Japan)