LCA, how are you doing today? A snapshot from the 5th German LCA workshop

The 5th Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) workshop of the German Network on LCI Data was held from 5th to 7th October 2009 in Freising, Germany, in parallel with the annual conference of the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) German Language Branch. At this workshop, more than 40 participants from 26 Austrian and German institutions shared insights into their current LCA activities and discussed recent topics. The single contributions are documented in German language by a proceedings publication (Feifel et al. 2009). This article gives a snapshot of central issues of this workshop to sum up the main discussions. Additionally, some perspective LCA activities are pointed out based on a questionnaire.