What are the LCIA methods ecoinvent is publishing the impact assessment results for?
See below the list of LCIA methods for which ecoinvent calculated and published the LCIA scores in the ecoinvent version 3.3 (2016) database. The characterization factors of each of this methods and their matching with the elementary flows present in the database are published in the ecoQuery files section and are accessible to all registered users.
- CML 2001
- Cumulative energy demand
- Cumulative exergy demand
- Ecoindicator 99
- Ecological footprint
- Ecological scarcity 1997, 2006 and 2013
- Ecosystem damage potential
- EDIP 2003
- EPS 2000
- ILCD 1.0.8
- IMPACT 2002+
- IPCC 2001, 2007 and 2013
- ReCiPe Midpoint and Endpoint
- TRACI
- USEtox
What does the version number of the database mean?
What is an activity in ecoinvent version 3?
What are global background activities and where do they come from?
What is a market and how is it created?
In which situations are direct activity links used?
Why is the reference product of the treatment activities negative?
Why is the amount of the reference product changing?
What is linking and what happens during the linking process? Attributional System Model
What is linking and what happens during the linking process? Consequential System Model
What is allocation at the point of substitution (APOS)?
What do the shortcuts, such as CH, RER, RoW and GLO mean?
The ecoinvent database in Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs)
What does it mean, when the production volume of an activity is zero?
Why is the “Allocation, default” system model not available in the ecoquery anymore?
How do I calculate the amount of transport in the market?
What is the Rest-of-the-World (RoW) and how is it calculated?
Why is the LCIA score of a certain product negative?
What are the UUID numbers and how do they work?
How to interpret the uncertainty fields in ecoinvent?
APOS: why do I have carrots on my recycled aluminium?