Abstract
More and more national and regional resource and energy strategies are being developed. After the Fukushima accidents, several European countries, like Germany and Switzerland, decided to phase out nuclear power and to adjust or rewrite their long-term national energy strategies. Environmental impacts are usually one element of these strategies. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is one approach that may help identify environmentally optimal energy strategies. The Swiss and the German energy strategies were presented in this discussion forum. The role of LCAwithin these strategies is discussed and highlights of the most recent updates of electricity supply life cycle inventories were presented. Furthermore, sophisticated LCA approaches that deal with long-term future scenarios in a European and German context were explained, and the application of LCA on future technologies such as carbon capture and storage and hydrogenwas presented. The 51st discussion forum addressed the following questions:
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