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Roadmap for National LCA Database
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Agenda
Time Presentation Speaker
13:00 Welcome and Onboarding Claudia Giacovelli, UNEP
Introduction Llorenç Milà i Canals, UNEP
Roadmap for national LCA database development: Guidance
13:05 Carl Vadenbo, ecoinvent association
and recommendations from around the world
Introducing our speakers for today Claudia Giacovelli, UNEP
13:15 Perú LCA: launching the Peruvian national life cycle database Ian Vázquez-Rowe, PELCAN-PUCP
Cornerstone project Brazil: challenges and how to overcome
Sonia Karin Chapman, Rede ACV
them
Roadmap for development of Indian LCA data -
Rajesh Biniwale,, NEERI
Implementation Status
AGRIBALYSE v3.0, feedbacks from a national database Vincent Colomb, ADEME
13:50 Panel discussion Moderator: Pippa Notten, TGH Think Space
14:25 The LCA Database Technical Helpdesk Claudia Giacovelli, UNEP
14:30 Close Claudia Giacovelli, UNEP
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Introduction
Llorenç Milà i Canals
Life Cycle Assessment Team Leader, UNEP
Llorenc.milaicanals@un.org
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Life Cycle Initiative: VISION
From the 2017-2022 Strategy
Impact Relevant SDGs are reached faster and more efficiently
Life cycle based decisions are made for public policies
and businesses
1. Technical and Policy Advice and Stewardship
Focus Areas
2. Capacity development
3. Science-based life cycle knowledge
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Roadmap for national LCA database
development: Guidance and
recommendations from around the world
Carl Vadenbo
ecoinvent association
vadenbo@ecoinvent.org
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Background & motivation
How did we end up writing this guidance?
• LCI component of Sustainable Recycling Industries (SRI) program (2014-2018)
• Combining capacity building, network formation, and data collection activities
• Focus countries: Brazil, Colombia, India, Peru, South Africa
• REAL sub-project on Development of National LCA Database Roadmaps
(2018-2019)
• Brazil, India, South Africa
• Ecuador, Sri Lanka, Uganda (representing initial/early stage of LCA maturity)
• Project objectives:
• To develop roadmaps for national LCA databases in six countries
• Improve access to available data where possible What’s a database roadmap anyway?
• To contribute to the Technical Helpdesk for LCA Databases And, how to get there?National LCA database development process
Baseline assessment & Establish national LCA Acquire funding,
stakeholder database roadmap formalize agreements &
mapping/engagement Define: commitments
• vision & goals Sections of roadmap
• governance &
Form national database management
Identify resource needs
& organize capacity
guidance report
working group • funds & financing
• human resources building • Why a national LCA database?
• database hosting • The database roadmap process
• data needs &
Determine level of availability Establish procedures for • Elements in the development of
• data quality and review
ambition
• data exchange formats
data handling & storage a national LCA database
& interoperability • Making the case for LCA
Plan database roadmap Devise action plan for Establish database
• From roadmap development to
process database development access criteria implementation
• Further resources
Initiation, stocktaking Roadmap review &
Select or develop IT
& raising awareness stakeholder
infrastructure
consultation
Database conception &
roadmap dissemination Establish routines for
Launch & disseminate Launch of national
database maintenance
Data handling & database roadmap LCA database
& further development
database developmentGuidance & recommendations
Scope of publication
• Target audience: technical leads of national LCA database initiatives
• Main elements of a database roadmap:
• Database vision and goals definition
• Governance and management structure
• Funds and finances
• Human resource needs
• Database hosing considerations
• Intended uses and scope of the database
• Data quality requirements and review procedures
• Data access and interoperability
• Guidance neutral in terms of data formats or database systems
• Insights from six participating countries and other national LCA databases
around the worldGuidance & recommendations Common challenges and main take-home messages Major hurdles and pit-falls • Resource constraints (funds, technical expertise, trust, …) • Poor availability of, or access to, reliable data for inventory generation • Lack of awareness for (or perceived pressure to adopt) life cycle thinking • Changing political agendas; personnel changes in responsible agencies → viability of national LCA database initiative closely linked to uptake and practical applications of LCA in the country
Guidance & recommendations Common challenges and main take-home messages Main insights and take-home messages • No ‘one-size-fits-all’, INSTEAD crucial to ensure data interoperability! • It is feasible to start small (with very limited resources) • Focus initially on creating clear value for key user group(s) → snowball effect! • Identify data needs/priorities based on intended uses, and improve database content/coverage iteratively • Regional ‘success stories’ have great potential to inspire/convince neighbors!
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank:
• Publication commissioner and production lead
Llorenç Milà i Canals and Claudia Giacovelli, UNEP - Economy Division
• Contributors
• Cássia Ugaya, UTFPR (BR)
• Ángel Ramírez, ESPOL, and Beatriz Rivela, EPN (EC)
• Vincent Colomb, ADEME (FR)
• Sanjeevan Bajaj (IN)
• Samantha Kumarasena and Upendra Arjeevani, NCPC (LK)
• Mazlina Hussein, SIRIM/LCA Malaysia (MY)
• Ian Vázquez-Rowe and Ramyy Kahhat, PUCP/PELCAN (PE)
• Paul Walakira and Dean Tashobya, Uganda LCA Network (UG)
• Gregor Wernet and David Turner, ecoinvent Association (CH)
• Reviewers
P. Arbuckle, K. Cenian, A. De Schryver, S. Fazio, T. Grant, P. Lesage, C. Scarinci
• Review of Spanish version: Ibero-American Life Cycle Network (RICV)With financial
support from: Commissioned by:
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Introducing our speakers for today
Ian Vázquez-Rowe Sonia Karin Chapman Rajesh Biniwale Vincent Colomb
Pontificia Universidad Brazilian Business National Environmental French Environmental
Católica del Perú Network for LCA Engineering Research Agency (ADEME)
Peruvian LCA Network (Rede ACV) Instituter, India (NEERI) Agribalyse
(PELCAN)
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www.lifecycleinitiative.orgPERÚ LCA: LAUNCHING THE PERUVIAN NATIONAL LIFE CYCLE DATABASE Ian Vázquez-Rowe, Kurt Ziegler, Ramzy Kahhat November 19th 2020
INVENTORY DEVELOPMENT (DATABASES) The main databases are in EU, US and Japan Limitations in other regions UN Environment is providing support to Latin American institutions for the development of their own databases. Ecoinvent is funding databases projects in the region also: Peru, Colombia or Brazil
CURRENT STATUS • LCA studies in Latin America are on the rise. • Increase in demand for life cycle inventories in Peru and for Peruvian products. • International databases are not always representative of local or regional conditions • Difficulties to represent the Peruvian context • Life-cycle thinking may be hindered for decision making
WHAT HAS HAPPENNED IN PERU?
CHRONOLOGICAL TIMELINE
For a full chronological
description of the Peruvian
roadmap for database
building
DATABASE BUILDING TIMELINE (PERU)LCI-ORIENTED PROJECTS DATASET BUILDING
Sustainable Recycling Advancing and Measuring
Industries Project Sustainable Consumption
and Production for a Low-
Mining Carbon Economy in Middle
Income and Newly
Fisheries Industrialized Countries
Capacity buildingIKI Project - Peru
Main objectives
Promote sustainable production and consumption through
GHG mitigation actions.
Generate environmental sustainability information for
consumers.
Establish recommendations to attain GHG emission mitigations
in priority sectors in Peru.
Create a national life cycle database for Peru.
Link the Peruvian database with the Global LCA Data Access
GLAD platform promoted by UN Environment.STAKEHOLDERS INVOLVED IN THE PROJECT
Funding
International Climate Initiative (IKI); Federal Minsitry for the
Environment, Natural Conservation and Nuclear Safety (Germany)
UN Environment
Development
Peruvian Life Cycle Assessment Network – PELCAN
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú – PUCP)
Supervised by:
Ministry of Environment (MINAM), PeruObjectives for a low carbon economy in Peru
G Hydropower Cleaning
L Paper
plants products
A Input-
D National life cycle database output
matrix
P Public Procurement LCA
L Refinery studies
Landfills
A products
T
F
O Furniture
R Public policy: Paris Agreement –
M Climate action
Dissemination of results: consumer informationObjectives for a low carbon economy in Peru
G Hydropower
L plants
A
D National life cycle database
P
L Refinery
Landfills
A products
T
F
O
R
MWHAT IS THE ROLE OF IKI IN THIS SCENARIO? Develop an LCA study for three priority sectors in Peru. Create life cycle inventories for these three sectors. Sanitary Landfills Hydropower plant Refineries Identify actions that allow climate action policies to reduce GHG emissions.
THE PROJECT DERIVED IN THE PUBLICATION OF SEVERAL SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES ON KEY PERUVIAN ECONOMIC SECTORS
PERÚ LCA (WWW.PERULCA.COM)
MAIN FEATURES OF PERÚ LCA Contains more than 70 datasets for Peruvian activities: aquaculture, landiflls, energy, fishing, etc
MAIN FEATURES OF PERÚ LCA Contains more than 70 datasets for Peruvian activities: aquaculture, landiflls, energy, fishing, etc Hosts an input-ouput web tool for Peru. Hosts important life-cycle information for stakeholder and consumer use. Linked to the GLAD platform since March 2020.
WWW.PERULCA.COM
IAN.VAZQUEZ@PUCP.PE
Ian Vázquez-Rowe, Kurt Ziegler, Ramzy Kahhat
November 19th 2020Cornerstone project Brazil: challenges and how to overcome them Sonia Karin Chapman, 19.11.20 Member Institutional Partners
Rede ACV’s goals
ü Create an environment for cooperation among companies interested in the use of LCA
in Brazil, aiming to optimize the allocation of resources
ü Education and capacity building for companies about the concept, its application and
the benefits of LCA
ü Make available and disseminate information about LCA for diverse stakeholder in
Brazil, such as studies, good practices and specialists for several contributions
ü Collaborate and support the Brazilian government in the consolidation of the National
Life Cycle Inventories DatabaseRede ACV’s associates
Rede ACV’s activities
Ø Strategic discussions with players: EMF, CIRAIG, WBCSD, PRé Sustainability and other
Ø Working Groups
• Capacity building
• Communication
• Brazilian database Cornerstone
• Labelling
• Circular Economy
• Sustainable Development Goals
Ø Technical Commission
Ø Construction, Agro, FinanceCORNERSTONE PROJECT’S GOAL Increase the quantity and quality of the Brazilian datasets in ecoinvent database, through an in-depth recontextualization and reconnection of the ecoinvent datasets. Provided that the “Recontextualized” datasets are compliant with the ecoinvent and SICV data collection guidelines and database demands, they will be available in both ecoinvent and SICV database. The Cornerstone project is inspired by “The Quebec Life Cycle Inventory Database Project”, developed by CIRAIG, in partnership with ecoinvent.
Cornerstone project’s chosen datasets
Adaptation (or recontextualization) of five base dataset groups (cornerstones) to better
represent the Brazilian reality: Petroleum, Natural Gas, Diesel, Biodiesel, and Road Freight
Transport.
These dataset groups were selected due
to their significant contribution in various
industrial processes, that is, either they
are in the base of the economy or
because in Brazil there are specificities
that justify the differentiation from the
international data available in
Recontextualization Reconnection
ecoinvent.Cornerstone project: recontextualised datasets
• 3.5-7.5 tonne (Unregulated, Euro I, II, III, V) • Petroleum offshore • Biodiesel • Diesel (market for)
• 7.5-16 tonne (Unregulated, Euro I, II, III, V) • Petroleum onshore • Biodiesel (market for)
• 16-32 tonne (Unregulated, Euro I, II, III, V) • Gas offshore
• >32 tonne (Unregulated, Euro I, II, III, V) • Gas onshore
• Gas onshore [Bolivia]
• Petroleum (Market for) 30 Recontextualized datasets
• Gas (Market for)Cornerstone project: road freight transport
Load Factor
Lorry class Load factor
Brazil ecoinvent {BR}1 {RER} {ZA}
3.8-6 and 6-10 tonne 3.5-7.5 tonne 58% 20% 50%
10-15 tonne 7.5-16 tonne 59% 35% 60%
>= 15 tonne and Combined
16-32 tonne 60% 37% 60%
GVW < 40 tonne
>= 15 tonne and Combined
>32 tonne 65% 53% 55%
GVW >= 40 tonne
NOTES: GVW – Gross Vehicle Weight, {BR} – Brazil, {RER} – Rest of Europe, {ZA} – South Africa; 1. Brazilian factor from [EPE 2020].
Emissions related to Fuel
blended fuel (blended with biodiesel)Cornerstone project: petroleum and gas
% Gas Consumed gas in the
% Petroleum extraction and
processing
Distance from coast
Gas composition Gas (market for)
Flared gas National production (onshore and offshore)
Imported from Bolivia (Gasbol)
Gas vented Imported by ship (regasification)
Water produced and dischargedCornerstone project: petroleum and gas
Exploration & Production
*Venting and Flaring: [ANP 2019] with a share estimated according to [MCTI 2015]; Consumption at E&P and petroleum refineries: [MME 2019]; Consumption at Drying plant: ecoinvent 3.6; Consumption in pipelines: Here estimated
with [ANP 2019]; all other flows refer to primary data from [ANP 2019].Cornerstone project: biodiesel
Oil share:
most soybean oil and tallow
Data from 19 production plants certified by
RenovaBio that represent 60.2% of the
national biodiesel production in 2018 (ANP).
Estimated distributionCornerstone project: diesel The inventory for Brazilian Diesel production
was recently published in ecoinvent as an
output of the SRI project. This dataset was
Recontextualized checked with the last available official
petroleum national statistics. All considerations in the
published dataset are in line with the current
situation.
Refinery
API Petroleum Technology
[%S] Petroleum
Distribution according to
transport modes and
calculated distances.Cornerstone project: reconnections
Prioritization strategy
1. Significantly influenced by electricity,
diesel, petroleum, natural gas and
lorry transport
X X X X
2. The number of times it is connected to
other datasets in the database
>100.000
calculations
3. Technology correlation with the ones
used in ecoinvent reference countriesCornerstone project: prioritization strategy’s results
List of datasets where
energy and
1st group (99 datasets) 20% recontextualised datasets
account for more than
20% of the impact
List of datasets with more
>100 than 100 connections
21.533 185 List of datasets where
energy and
2nd group (46 datasets)
>80 recontextualised datasets
account for over 80% of
% the impact (regardless of
the number of connections)
All processing datasets
3rd group (40 datasets) >20 where energy and
recontextualised datasets
% account for more than 20%
of the impactNext steps and further development
Data from industry
Cornerstone
Share data and documents
with ecoinvent and SICV
database. (2020)Thank you! Sonia Karin Chapman Tiago Barreto Rocha Executive Secretary Rede ACV ACV Brasil For more information: secretaria@redeacv.org.br www.redeacv.org.br/en
Roadmap for development of Indian LCA data
Implementation Status
19 November 2020
Rajesh Biniwale
Sr. Principal Scientist
National Environmental Engineering Research Institute
Nagpur, INDIA
49India Roadmap Highlights
1. Need for national LCA data
Four key triggers driving Sustainability initiatives:
• Greening of global markets (pressure from trading partners)
• Public health (problems attributed to pollution/waste management)
• Resource efficiency (increasing prices & looming shortages of resources)
• Self-reliance (increase domestic production & consumption sustainably
LCA helps assess sustainability performance avoiding fixes that do not reduce but
merely shift burdens, hence need for LCA data
2. Objective of preparing roadmap document
• Show direction for making high quality, reliable, and consistent data available to
the community for ongoing impact assessments
50India Roadmap Highlights
3. Strategy & Approach for developing national data
• Not yet clear if a fully functional, standalone national DB is feasible, or only a repository of
Indian datasets with capability to integrate with other databases & LCA software is enough
• Therefore, first step is a practical exercise of the end-to-end process of collecting new data,
accessing existing data, using LCA software, generating additional data, & developing
prototype IT solution to host the data on a pilot scale as a prototype
4. Funding
• Difficult to estimate resource requirements, timelines, technical expertise of eventual
solution for India at this point in time
• Immediate focus is on prototype development through NEERI internal resources &
contributions from other organizations
51Prototype development-Current Status
Data is sourced from LCA study of power plant
• Recently concluded study using CCalC software (open source) with
ecoinvent as background database
• Current status – Primary data being analyzed to check adequacy vis-
à-vis GLAD requirements
Indicative data
Energy Amount (MJ) Stage Database section
Electricity, hard coal, at power plant 7.78E+4 Raw materials CCalC/Energy
Electricity, hard coal, at power plant 1.94E+4 Production CCalC/Energy
Production/Demineraliz
Electricity, hard coal, at power plant 6480 CCalC/Energy
ation
Production/Boiler
Electricity, hard coal, at power plant 3.89+4 CCalC/Energy
section
Energies estimated for 25 MW CPP using CCalC platform as Ecoinvent/CCalC database
52Challenges foreseen
Challenges - prototype development
• Lack of understanding about technical expertise required for enabling integration of data with LCA
SW
• How to get support from SW vendors for prototype development, since funds are not available at
present to pay for their time/effort
• Current focus in government organizations is on pandemic containment, hence resources available
for this exercise are limited
Challenges – eventual solution
• Number of organizations (public/private) familiar with technicalities of LCA/data that are also
convinced about benefits of using LCA to improve sustainability performance vis-à-vis cost/effort
involved is very limited
• Uncertainty on who will finally provide larger funds for the eventual solution & on what terms &
conditions inhibits spelling out more details/making further recommendations on DB operational
aspects
53End of Presentation
54AGRIBALYSE v3.0,
feedbacks from a national database
UNEP webinar
Vincent Colomb,
French Environnemental Agency (ADEME)
Nov. 2020>1000 agricultural products, including :
Conventional products/National averages
Organic productions (> 200)
Label Rouge, Bleu Blanc C , In eg a ed d ci n
Different crop rotation/feed systems; Traditional/Optimised
greenhouse production, ecodesigned em
2500 food products
Farm to Fork
Average product on the market (no brand or label)
Include importation of agricultural ingredients
Aligned on CIQUAL nomenclature (French Nutrition Database)
With Data Quality Ratio (DQR) and detailed metadata
22009 : French policy agenda :
Sustainable production and ecodesign
Public « eco-labelling scheme »
=> Need for a LCI database for agricultural products
2013 : AGB v1.0-v1.1 (average farm data)
2015 : AGB v1.2 (+ feed data)
2018 : AGB v1.3 (ecodesign + new
products)
2020 : Agribalyse 3.0
New data, « Cradle to fork »
+ New design
+ New organisation 3A step-by-step database building, involving about one hundred experts of
agriculture, food and environmental sciences.
Leaders Main contributors : Technical
institutes, research team, consultancies
In charge of
version 3.0
4Starting point :
Who are your users (evolving situation) :
- Your main target ? Policy makers, agriculture
and food compagnies
- Co-benefiters ? NGOs, Education, digital
players etc.
Who is willing to pay/contribute (skill, expertise) ?
How much ?
Mix public-private money
Crowd funding vs « Major donors » ?
5Peacefull and secure time to launch the
work, make the best of it ! (as long as no
one cares). 1-3 years
Make sure and prove some people are
using your work, and would greatly miss
it if you and keep working ! 3-7
years
Become « main stream be ready for
« lights and troubles » !
6Find a core group of passionate and skilled people (3-5)
Define your scope clearly : LCA database, environmental database,
expertise groupe, « ready to use tool » etc ?
Updating capacity
Unit/transparent processes necessary « at least
internally »
Reliable background databases : ex ILCD/Ecoinvent
Credibility :
No one likes « bad marks expect oppositions
Science-based answers
Y e not alone, you have « friends » you d n even know yet !
You are not the only one to « say this », « stopping you »
n stop him Learn from he « mistakes » in
addition to yours U e lcalist and helpful network !
Make sure people understand you, keep talking to non LCA people !
7Agribalyse 3.0 :
- Release webinair : 800 people online + replay
- 85 % people interested or very interested about this
work
- 8 000 visits on webpage since october;
- > 4000 downloads of database (N°1 ademe website
on the period)
- Data already included in many tools (restaurants,
farming cooperatives, food compagnies etc.)
- AGB : Basis for environmental labelling expriment
ongoing
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Carl Vadenbo Ian Vázquez- Sonia Karin Rajesh Biniwale Vincent Colomb Pippa Notten
coinvent Rowe Chapman NEERI, India ADEME TGH Think Space
association PELCAN-PUCP Rede ACV
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