The sixth iteration of the version 3 ecoinvent database features more than 2,200 new and 2,500 updated datasets related to agriculture, building and construction materials, chemicals, electricity, fishing, metals, refineries, textiles, tourism, transport, waste treatment and recycling, and water supply. As a result, the ecoinvent data landscape now includes 247 more products, new tools for agriculture and waste treatment sectors, and greatly expands its geographical coverage on numerous countries and regions not covered before, such as Brazil, Colombia, Ghana, India, Peru and South Africa.
To ensure clarity and transparency, it is important to openly document the changes made between the latest update and the previous version of the database. This page includes the most important documents describing the differences between ecoinvent 3.5 and ecoinvent 3.6.
This section lists all known data errors in version 3.6 of the ecoinvent database. While the ecoinvent team focuses on eliminating such errors for upcoming updates, this section of known issues exists to alert database users and to support their understanding and use of the database.