Since November 2020, the ecoinvent association is an institutional member of Rede ACV, the Brazilian business network for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). Within this partnership, ecoinvent supports Rede ACV’s efforts towards improving the availability and interoperability of LCA data in Brazil, and more generally in promoting life cycle thinking in the country. This engagement strengthens the association’s connection to the vibrant LCA community in Brazil, allowing ecoinvent to further fulfill its mission to promote the availability of high-quality data for environmental assessments worldwide.
Rede Empresarial Brasileira de Avaliação de Ciclo de Vida (Rede ACV) was launched in 2013, with the mission to promote LCA in the Brazilian business community, for public policy, and towards consumers. In a truly cooperative setting, Rede ACV gathers and engages with national and international actors on the development and application of LCA in Brazil, and to establish good practices for the use of LCA in the national business context. Its activities also include supporting the national LCI database initiative, as well as offering training and raising awareness on key concepts of LCA targeting various stakeholder groups.
Rede ACV and the ecoinvent association have agreed to collaborate on the Cornerstone project, which takes place between November 2020 and mid 2021. Within this ongoing project, Rede ACV departs from existing content in the ecoinvent database to further develop regionalized life cycle inventory (LCI) data, representative for Brazil. The data shall be included both in the national LCI database SICV Brasil as well as in the ecoinvent database, benefiting local users and the international LCA community alike.