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LCA IX conference
session « International Capability Development Activities on Life Cycle Topics »
Roland Hischier
ecoinvent Centre
Content
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• Introduction For Life Cycle
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• NDI
Strategies to build up a national LCI database
• Conclusions
Problem setting
LCI
LCIDatabase
Database Swiss Centre
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100%
80%
waste disposal
services
transports
60%
infrastructure
heat
40%
electricity
other chemicals
20%
fillers
waste paper as
0% raw material
Total land respiratory carcinogenics climate change fossil fuels market pulp
occupation effects (sulphate)
wood
-20%
Direct impact
-40%
LCIA Method(s)
?!?
Consequences if starting …
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54 16
87
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3
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strategy of ecoinvent
“more internationalisation “ …
• etc.
• The national initiative is responsible for its own local data collection Swiss Centre
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programme, and retains the right to license these collected data to Inventories
third parties, while providing the collected data for publication in the
ecoinvent database.
• Either side can terminate the co-operation by giving one year’s notice
to the end of a calendar year.
Parametrisation in ecoinvent v3
• Parent-child relationship allows calculation of specific,
national / regional datasets Swiss Centre
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“parent-child relationship“
… consequences for National Database Initiatives (NDI):
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• NDI can … Inventories
Supply-use table
Principle / how to use this here ?
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• All economic activities in society are covered, i.e. the sum of all For Life Cycle
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activities (= national output !) is included here.
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