Current LCA database development in Japan -results of the LCA project

Narita, Nobuhiko; Nakahara, Yoshifumi; Morimoto, Mamoru; Aoki, Ryôzô; Suda, Shigeru

doi:10.1007/bf02979077

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“…National or regional databases, which evolved from publicly funded projects, provide inventory data on a variety of products and basic services that are needed in every LCA, such as raw materials, electricity generation, transport processes, and waste services as well as sometimes complex products. Several national and international public databases have been released in the past, among them the Swedish SPINE@CPM database (CPM, 2007), the German PROBAS database (UBA, 2007), the Japanese JEMAI database (JEMAI, 2007;Narita et al, 2004), the US NREL database (NREL, 2004), the Australian LCI database (RMIT, 2007), the Swiss ecoinvent database (Ecoinvent, 2007), and the European Reference Life Cycle Database (ELCD) (European Commission, 2007a). Further databases are currently under development all over the world, for example, in Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, Malaysia, Thailand, and other countries.…”

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Recent developments in Life Cycle Assessment

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Journal of Environmental Management

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Section: Database Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recent developments in Life Cycle Assessment

Finnveden

Hauschild

Ekvall

et al. 2009

Journal of Environmental Management

2,185

1,239

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“…In Asia, the LCA National Project in Japan, funded by the Ministry of Economy, has developed LCI data for approximately 200 products, with data gathered from about 50 industrial associations (Narita et al 2004). The Korea National Cleaner Production Center (KNCPC) is constructing the national Korean LCI database for Korean industries (Korea National LCI Database, KNCPC 2010), established with the support of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Energy.…”

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Environmental Life Cycle Assessment

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“…Regionalized input−output approaches have also been proposed. Yi et al used a multiregional input-output matrix and site-dependent characterization factors from the LIME LCIA method to determine the differences between site-generic and site-dependent assessments. Nansai et al proposed using characterization factors based on spatial areas of impact equivalency where emissions of a particular substance would have similar levels of impact.…”

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Regionalized Life Cycle Assessment: Computational Methodology and Application to Inventory Databases

Mutel

Hellweg

2009

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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Life cycle assessment (LCA) studies have shown that site-dependent impact assessment for categories like acidification and eutrophication give more accurate and realistic results than site-generic assessments. To date, existing geography-specific, or regionalized, impact assessment factors have not been applied to LCA databases and software tools. We describe a simple, generic methodology to couple existing regionalized characterization factors with large life cycle inventory databases. This approach allows for detailed geographic life cycle impact assessment results. Case-study results for European country-specific electricity mixes are calculated using the Ecoinvent 2.01 database and the EDIP 2003 and Accumulated Exceedance impact assessment methods and CASES project external energy cost characterization factors. In most cases, regionalization shows different total scores, different processes of high importance, and varying geographic distributions of environmental impacts. As the methodology requires no additional input other than the geographic information already in existing LCA databases, it can be used routinely. Better and more consistent geographic information in life cycle inventory databases and impact assessment methods, tailored to the specific spatial range of all environmental effects considered, would be beneficial.

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Current LCA database development in Japan -results of the LCA project

Cited by 16 publications

References 7 publications

Recent developments in Life Cycle Assessment

Recent developments in Life Cycle Assessment

Environmental Life Cycle Assessment

Regionalized Life Cycle Assessment: Computational Methodology and Application to Inventory Databases

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