What do the shortcuts, such as CH, RER, RoW and GLO mean?
Every activity present in the ecoinvent has a geographic location. This geographic locations are reported using internationally accepted shortcuts. For example Switzerland has the shortcut CH, Czechia CZ and China CN. The list of geographies available in ecoinvent can be found here.
Certain geographical location shortcuts are not as well know or commonly used. For example, GLO means global and represents activities which are considered to be an average valid for all countries in the world. RER shortcut represents Europe. RoW represents the Rest-of-the-World. In ecoinvent v3.2 (2015) and higher the RoW is generated as an exact copy of the GLO dataset with uncertainty adjusted. The newly generated RoW is then linked with activities of an adequate geographies creating RoW specific supply chain.
The screenshot from ecoQuery shows the datasets representing barley production in the ecoinvent database. There are three regional datasets representing barley production in Germany (DE), Spain (ES) and France (FR) and one global dataset (GLO) representing what is considered to be the average production.
The Rest-of-the-World (RoW) dataset is created only during the linking.
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)?
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?
What are the LCIA methods ecoinvent is publishing the impact assessment results for?
APOS: why do I have carrots on my recycled aluminium?