The publication also addresses questions concerning data documentation and review, coordination among databases, capacity building and future scenarios.
LCA databases provide fundamental energy, materials, land, water consumption data and emissions data into water, air and soil for a wide range of processes, products and materials. This publication provides a bridge between the data providers and the data users. It ensures that basic information is easily accessible for computing the environmental footprints of materials and products that are key to judging and making green claims and to allowing institutional and individual consumers to make informed consumption choices.
PE contributed its umbrella-experience of some 300 person*years in database work with a wide variety of clients to help ensure the document would meet the needs of industry, academic, consulting and political stakeholders.
The document is the output of the UNEP/SETAC “Global Guidance for LCA Databases” workshop, (30th January – 4th February 2011, Shonan, Japan), also known as the ‘Shonan Guidance Principles’ workshop. Martin Baitz and Jim Fava from PE INTERNATIONAL took part in the workshop and were part of the fifty worldwide selected authors.
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