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Mehmet Akif KILIC

Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi

Universidad Central de Venezuela

University of East Anglia

Reinaldo Imbrozio Barbosa

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia

Martin Graziano

Universidad de Buenos Aires

University of California, Los Angeles

Universidade de Brasília - UnB

University of Ibadan Nigeria

University of Southern California

Colleen Myles (formerly Hiner)

Texas State University

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Improving regional coverage of agricultural data in a background database

In: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT, 9., 2019, Poznan. Abstract book... Poznan: Poznan University of Technology, 2019., 2019

Abstract: The creation of reliable, consistent and transparent regionalized LCIs represents a cor... more Abstract: The creation of reliable, consistent and transparent regionalized LCIs represents a core purpose of the Sustainable Recycling Industries-Life Cycle Inventories (SRI-LCI) project. SRI-LCI was a program funded by Swiss State Secretariat of Economic Affairs (SECO) and implemented by ecoinvent across Brazil, Colombia, India, Peru and South Africa. One of the key sectors improved in all regions was the agriculture sector. Different strategies were used for different regions and will be detailed in this communication.bitstream/item/220463/1/Folegatti-Improving-regional-2020.pd

Life cycle inventories of energy systems: results for current systems in Switzerland and other UCTE countries

Data v1, 2007

This report has been prepared on behalf of one or several Federal Offices listed on the opposite ... more This report has been prepared on behalf of one or several Federal Offices listed on the opposite page (see commissioners) and / or the ecoinvent Centre. The final responsibility for contents and conclusions remains with the authors of this report. Terms of Use: Data published in this report are subject to the ecoinvent terms of use, in particular paragraphs 4 and 8. The ecoinvent terms of use (Version 2.0) can be downloaded via the Internet (www.ecoinvent.org).

Authors and internal validation

Education and Science (Bundesamt für Bildung und Wissenschaft), CH Swiss Federal Office of Energy... more Education and Science (Bundesamt für Bildung und Wissenschaft), CH Swiss Federal Office of Energy (Bundesamt für Energie), CH ESU-services Ltd., CH Liability Statement Information contained herein have been compiled or arrived from sources believed to be reliable. Nevertheless, the authors or their organizations do not accept liability for any loss or damage arising from the use thereof. Using the given information is strictly your own responsibility. Responsibility This report has been prepared with funds of two Swiss Federal Offices and of ESU-services Ltd.. The final responsibility for contents and conclusions remains with the authors of this report. Version Del-5.2.15-LCA-FinalReport-5.0.doc, 26.

Towards Eco-efficient Systems

Goal, Scope and Background. Goal of this study is an evaluation of the environmental sustainabili... more Goal, Scope and Background. Goal of this study is an evaluation of the environmental sustainability of the UMTS mobile communication system in Switzerland by means of a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). A baseline environmental impact profile across the full life cycle of the UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication System) and its predecessor, the GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication) is presented. The baseline assessment was a necessary first step to evaluate the environmental impacts of the mobile communication systems use and growth, thus permitting the evaluation of its environmental sustainability. Main Features. Two functional units are defined: a data set of 1 Gbit (1.000.000 kbit), and the yearly mobile communication of an average customer. In the UMTS, both data packages and calls can be conveyed. In order to be able to standardize the results, an equivalence between these two kinds of transmission is formed. Two different options are defined, which represent different w...

Doka Life Cycle Assessments

ecoinvent report No. 17 Uster, Dezember 2007 Project "ecoinvent data v2.0" Commissioner... more

Defining Ecosystem Indicators for Improved Land Management of Wool Value Chains

ecoinvent: Energy Supply Life Cycle Inventories for the Nuclear and Natural Gas Energy Systems, and Examples of Uncertainty Analysis

tory data should reconsider production and transport from Rus-sia, as it is a major producer and ... more tory data should reconsider production and transport from Rus-sia, as it is a major producer and exporter to Europe. The calculated ranges of uncertainty factors in ecoinvent pro-vide useful information but they are more indications of uncer-tainties rather than strict 95 % intervals, and should therefore be applied carefully.

EcoLogTex: A software tool supporting the design of sustainable supply chains for textiles

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are connected to issues of sustainability in ma... more

Note from the field Standardized and simplified life-cycle assessment (LCA) as a driver for more sustainable biofuels

a b s t r a c t The assessment of environmental impacts along the life cycle of biofuels is a com... more a b s t r a c t The assessment of environmental impacts along the life cycle of biofuels is a complex and resourcedemanding task that cannot be afforded by small producers in developing countries. Therefore, certification schemes bear the risk that small and independent producers will be locked out and the market for sustainable biofuels will be dominated by international investors and large-scale plantations. However, many environmental impacts of various production chains of biofuels and feedstocks are already known. This knowledge has been used to create a web-based questionnaire for a ''Sustainability Quick Check for Biofuels'' (SQCB, http://www.sqcb.org). SQCB reduces the need for user entries to the most relevant and best-known parameters of the biofuel production chain. Based on this user input, a specific inventory is automatically modelled and linked to background data. SQCB then calculates the environmental impact assessment and checks the results again...

Umweltauswirkungen von Fahrzeugen im urbanen Kontext. Schlussbericht

Das prinzipielle Vorgehen in dieser Studie basiert auf den ISO-Normen für Ökobilanzen (14'04ff) u... more

Sustainability Quick Check for Biofuels (SQCB): A Web-based tool for streamlined biofuels' LCA

Upcoming regulations like the Swiss ordinance on mineral oil tax and development of standards for... more Upcoming regulations like the Swiss ordinance on mineral oil tax and development of standards for sustainably produced biofuels like those of the Roundtable for Sustainable Biofuels usually require calculations of the greenhouse gas emissions or even of the environmental impacts on a LCA basis. For small producers in developing countries, such an evaluation is too costly and would prevent them to enter the market for biofuels. This project developed a web-based tool, the so-called Sustainability Quick Check for Biofuels (SQCB), which allows a “quick check” of common agro-biofuel on a LCA basis. The major goal of the SQCB is (i) to facilitate the market entrance of sustainable biofuels for local producers from developing countries and (ii) to increase for the know-how on the environmental performance of specific agro-biofuel production chains. The SQCB uses a simplified approach. The life cycle inventory is modelled based on a questionnaire including the decisions and factors having ...

LCA Case Studies Life Cycle Assessment of the Mobile Communication System UMTS Towards Eco-E fficient Systems

Goal, Scope and Background. Goal of this study is an evaluation of the environmental sustainabili... more Goal, Scope and Background. Goal of this study is an evaluation of the environmental sustainability of the UMTS mobile communication system in Switzerland by means of a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). A baseline environmental impact profile across the full life cycle of the UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication System) and its predecessor, the GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication) is presented. The baseline assessment was a necessary first step to evaluate the environmental impacts of the mobile communication systems use and growth, thus permitting the evaluation of its environmental sustainability. Main Features. Two functional units are defined: a data set of 1 Gbit (1.000.000 kbit), and the yearly mobile communication of an average customer. In the UMTS, both data packages and calls can be conveyed. In order to be able to standardize the results, an equivalence between these two kinds of transmission is formed. Two different options are defined, which represent different w...

Timely Replacement of White Goodsinvestigation of Modern Appliances in a Lca

Timely replacement of electric household appliances (white goods) is often thought to be a benefi... more Timely replacement of electric household appliances (white goods) is often thought to be a beneficial option due to the energy efficiency improvements in modern appliances. Such conclusions are often solely based on comparing the direct with the indirect (grey) energy input. The conclusions are mostly deduced from the large dominance of the use over the production phase, disregarding other environmental effects. In this study two modern and efficient appliances, a washing machine and a fridge freezer, are analysed with the more comprehensive indicators ecological scarcity 97 and Eco-indicator 99. The full life cycle of the white goods with raw material extraction, production, distribution, operation, maintenance and disposal has been investigated. Furthermore, special attention was given to the electronic components.

Life Cycle Inventories of Energy Systems: Results for Current Systems in Switzerland and other UCTE Countries

This report has been prepared on behalf of one or several Federal Offices listed on the opposite ... more This report has been prepared on behalf of one or several Federal Offices listed on the opposite page (see commissioners) and / or the ecoinvent Centre. The final responsibility for contents and conclusions remains with the authors of this report. Terms of Use: Data published in this report are subject to the ecoinvent terms of use, in particular paragraphs 4 and 8. The ecoinvent terms of use (Version 2.0) can be downloaded via the Internet (www.ecoinvent.org).

The Environmental Impact Valuation as Scientific Basis for a Sustainable Apparel Strategy

Nowadays, the concept of the Environmental Footprint is well established, when impacts on the env... more Nowadays, the concept of the Environmental Footprint is well established, when impacts on the environment along the life cycle of a product are to be measured – from raw materials, the treatment of raw materials, production, distribution and end of life. However, Life Cycle Assessments (LCA), which serve as the basis for the measurement of an Environmental Footprint, are subject to limitations resulting from insufficient consistency and comparability.

Edition of the Environmental Impact Valuation as base for a Sustainable Fashion Strategy

In the mean time, HUGO BOSS and Quantis continued to analyze additional products and their supply... more In the mean time, HUGO BOSS and Quantis continued to analyze additional products and their supply chain as part of their ongoing collaboration within the initiative “World Apparel & Footwear Life Cycle Assessment Database (WALDB)”. This second edition presents all the research done until end of 2016 and integrates also the impact allocation rules for wool and leather from the european initiative Product Environmental Footprint (PEF). The allocation rules are important for sheep farming as raw material of any wool product,as well as for cattle farming and slaughterhouse for leather products. The cotton production allocation remaines unchained as published in the first edition. This second edition provides an update for the wool sweater, new cotton products and also for the first time an impact valuation of a leather product and the hot spots of its supply chain.

SES6-CT-2003-502705 RENEW Renewable fuels for advanced powertrains

LCA des Mobilfunksystems UMTS

Information contained herein have been compiled or arrived at ESU-services from sources believed ... more

Regionalized LCI modeling: The Case of Regionalized Cotton Datasets

Companies in the fashion industry are increasingly looking for reliable data to make informed dec... more Companies in the fashion industry are increasingly looking for reliable data to make informed decisions and to prioritize their sustainability efforts. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) provide a comprehensive and holistic way to assess environmental impacts over the full life cycle; yet, credible LCA data on the cultivation and processing of textiles is still limited. The World Apparel and Footwear Life Cycle Assessment Database (WALDB) was founded to solve this data challenge and to deliver robust data for environmental impact assessment and footprinting. One key limitation concerns LCA data on cotton cultivation. To date, the entire cultivation of cotton is represented in the form of two data points, i.e., country-generic LCA datasets which uniformly describe cotton cultivation in the context of the USA and in China. In other words, there is a lack in the coverage and geographical representativeness of LCA data representing global cotton cultivation. We believe that the integration of ...

Roadmap to the RSB Tool: Extension of the Sustainability Quick Check for Biofuels (SQCB) for Greenhouse Gas Calculations According to the European Renewable Energy Directive (RED)

The Sustainability Quick Check for Biofuels (SQCB) is a web-based tool for the evaluation of biof... more The Sustainability Quick Check for Biofuels (SQCB) is a web-based tool for the evaluation of biofuels on an LCA basis. It allows calculating the global warming potential, as well as the as overall environmental impacts of the biofuels’ life cycle. The tool was first based on the requirements for the Swiss ordinance on mineral oil tax. EMPA will expand the SQCB to include the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB) Certification Standard. The first step in this process is to include the regulatory requirements of the European Renewable Energy Directive 2009/28/EC of April 23, 2009 (RED), in particular the calculation of the greenhouse gas emissions according to the RED methodology. The implementation of the calculation of greenhouse gas emissions according to the Renewable Energy Directive will allow producers and importers to calculate the GHG emissions of their biofuels for the European context while profiting from the flexibility and comfort of the Sustainability Quick Check for ...

Improving regional coverage of agricultural data in a background database

In: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT, 9., 2019, Poznan. Abstract book... Poznan: Poznan University of Technology, 2019., 2019

Abstract: The creation of reliable, consistent and transparent regionalized LCIs represents a cor... more Abstract: The creation of reliable, consistent and transparent regionalized LCIs represents a core purpose of the Sustainable Recycling Industries-Life Cycle Inventories (SRI-LCI) project. SRI-LCI was a program funded by Swiss State Secretariat of Economic Affairs (SECO) and implemented by ecoinvent across Brazil, Colombia, India, Peru and South Africa. One of the key sectors improved in all regions was the agriculture sector. Different strategies were used for different regions and will be detailed in this communication.bitstream/item/220463/1/Folegatti-Improving-regional-2020.pd

Life cycle inventories of energy systems: results for current systems in Switzerland and other UCTE countries

Data v1, 2007

This report has been prepared on behalf of one or several Federal Offices listed on the opposite ... more This report has been prepared on behalf of one or several Federal Offices listed on the opposite page (see commissioners) and / or the ecoinvent Centre. The final responsibility for contents and conclusions remains with the authors of this report. Terms of Use: Data published in this report are subject to the ecoinvent terms of use, in particular paragraphs 4 and 8. The ecoinvent terms of use (Version 2.0) can be downloaded via the Internet (www.ecoinvent.org).

Authors and internal validation

Education and Science (Bundesamt für Bildung und Wissenschaft), CH Swiss Federal Office of Energy... more Education and Science (Bundesamt für Bildung und Wissenschaft), CH Swiss Federal Office of Energy (Bundesamt für Energie), CH ESU-services Ltd., CH Liability Statement Information contained herein have been compiled or arrived from sources believed to be reliable. Nevertheless, the authors or their organizations do not accept liability for any loss or damage arising from the use thereof. Using the given information is strictly your own responsibility. Responsibility This report has been prepared with funds of two Swiss Federal Offices and of ESU-services Ltd.. The final responsibility for contents and conclusions remains with the authors of this report. Version Del-5.2.15-LCA-FinalReport-5.0.doc, 26.

Towards Eco-efficient Systems

Goal, Scope and Background. Goal of this study is an evaluation of the environmental sustainabili... more Goal, Scope and Background. Goal of this study is an evaluation of the environmental sustainability of the UMTS mobile communication system in Switzerland by means of a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). A baseline environmental impact profile across the full life cycle of the UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication System) and its predecessor, the GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication) is presented. The baseline assessment was a necessary first step to evaluate the environmental impacts of the mobile communication systems use and growth, thus permitting the evaluation of its environmental sustainability. Main Features. Two functional units are defined: a data set of 1 Gbit (1.000.000 kbit), and the yearly mobile communication of an average customer. In the UMTS, both data packages and calls can be conveyed. In order to be able to standardize the results, an equivalence between these two kinds of transmission is formed. Two different options are defined, which represent different w...

Doka Life Cycle Assessments

ecoinvent report No. 17 Uster, Dezember 2007 Project "ecoinvent data v2.0" Commissioner... more

Defining Ecosystem Indicators for Improved Land Management of Wool Value Chains

ecoinvent: Energy Supply Life Cycle Inventories for the Nuclear and Natural Gas Energy Systems, and Examples of Uncertainty Analysis

tory data should reconsider production and transport from Rus-sia, as it is a major producer and ... more tory data should reconsider production and transport from Rus-sia, as it is a major producer and exporter to Europe. The calculated ranges of uncertainty factors in ecoinvent pro-vide useful information but they are more indications of uncer-tainties rather than strict 95 % intervals, and should therefore be applied carefully.

EcoLogTex: A software tool supporting the design of sustainable supply chains for textiles

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are connected to issues of sustainability in ma... more

Note from the field Standardized and simplified life-cycle assessment (LCA) as a driver for more sustainable biofuels

a b s t r a c t The assessment of environmental impacts along the life cycle of biofuels is a com... more a b s t r a c t The assessment of environmental impacts along the life cycle of biofuels is a complex and resourcedemanding task that cannot be afforded by small producers in developing countries. Therefore, certification schemes bear the risk that small and independent producers will be locked out and the market for sustainable biofuels will be dominated by international investors and large-scale plantations. However, many environmental impacts of various production chains of biofuels and feedstocks are already known. This knowledge has been used to create a web-based questionnaire for a ''Sustainability Quick Check for Biofuels'' (SQCB, http://www.sqcb.org). SQCB reduces the need for user entries to the most relevant and best-known parameters of the biofuel production chain. Based on this user input, a specific inventory is automatically modelled and linked to background data. SQCB then calculates the environmental impact assessment and checks the results again...

Umweltauswirkungen von Fahrzeugen im urbanen Kontext. Schlussbericht

Das prinzipielle Vorgehen in dieser Studie basiert auf den ISO-Normen für Ökobilanzen (14'04ff) u... more

Sustainability Quick Check for Biofuels (SQCB): A Web-based tool for streamlined biofuels' LCA

Upcoming regulations like the Swiss ordinance on mineral oil tax and development of standards for... more Upcoming regulations like the Swiss ordinance on mineral oil tax and development of standards for sustainably produced biofuels like those of the Roundtable for Sustainable Biofuels usually require calculations of the greenhouse gas emissions or even of the environmental impacts on a LCA basis. For small producers in developing countries, such an evaluation is too costly and would prevent them to enter the market for biofuels. This project developed a web-based tool, the so-called Sustainability Quick Check for Biofuels (SQCB), which allows a “quick check” of common agro-biofuel on a LCA basis. The major goal of the SQCB is (i) to facilitate the market entrance of sustainable biofuels for local producers from developing countries and (ii) to increase for the know-how on the environmental performance of specific agro-biofuel production chains. The SQCB uses a simplified approach. The life cycle inventory is modelled based on a questionnaire including the decisions and factors having ...

LCA Case Studies Life Cycle Assessment of the Mobile Communication System UMTS Towards Eco-E fficient Systems

Goal, Scope and Background. Goal of this study is an evaluation of the environmental sustainabili... more Goal, Scope and Background. Goal of this study is an evaluation of the environmental sustainability of the UMTS mobile communication system in Switzerland by means of a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). A baseline environmental impact profile across the full life cycle of the UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication System) and its predecessor, the GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication) is presented. The baseline assessment was a necessary first step to evaluate the environmental impacts of the mobile communication systems use and growth, thus permitting the evaluation of its environmental sustainability. Main Features. Two functional units are defined: a data set of 1 Gbit (1.000.000 kbit), and the yearly mobile communication of an average customer. In the UMTS, both data packages and calls can be conveyed. In order to be able to standardize the results, an equivalence between these two kinds of transmission is formed. Two different options are defined, which represent different w...

Timely Replacement of White Goodsinvestigation of Modern Appliances in a Lca

Timely replacement of electric household appliances (white goods) is often thought to be a benefi... more Timely replacement of electric household appliances (white goods) is often thought to be a beneficial option due to the energy efficiency improvements in modern appliances. Such conclusions are often solely based on comparing the direct with the indirect (grey) energy input. The conclusions are mostly deduced from the large dominance of the use over the production phase, disregarding other environmental effects. In this study two modern and efficient appliances, a washing machine and a fridge freezer, are analysed with the more comprehensive indicators ecological scarcity 97 and Eco-indicator 99. The full life cycle of the white goods with raw material extraction, production, distribution, operation, maintenance and disposal has been investigated. Furthermore, special attention was given to the electronic components.

Life Cycle Inventories of Energy Systems: Results for Current Systems in Switzerland and other UCTE Countries

This report has been prepared on behalf of one or several Federal Offices listed on the opposite ... more This report has been prepared on behalf of one or several Federal Offices listed on the opposite page (see commissioners) and / or the ecoinvent Centre. The final responsibility for contents and conclusions remains with the authors of this report. Terms of Use: Data published in this report are subject to the ecoinvent terms of use, in particular paragraphs 4 and 8. The ecoinvent terms of use (Version 2.0) can be downloaded via the Internet (www.ecoinvent.org).

The Environmental Impact Valuation as Scientific Basis for a Sustainable Apparel Strategy

Nowadays, the concept of the Environmental Footprint is well established, when impacts on the env... more Nowadays, the concept of the Environmental Footprint is well established, when impacts on the environment along the life cycle of a product are to be measured – from raw materials, the treatment of raw materials, production, distribution and end of life. However, Life Cycle Assessments (LCA), which serve as the basis for the measurement of an Environmental Footprint, are subject to limitations resulting from insufficient consistency and comparability.

Edition of the Environmental Impact Valuation as base for a Sustainable Fashion Strategy

In the mean time, HUGO BOSS and Quantis continued to analyze additional products and their supply... more In the mean time, HUGO BOSS and Quantis continued to analyze additional products and their supply chain as part of their ongoing collaboration within the initiative “World Apparel & Footwear Life Cycle Assessment Database (WALDB)”. This second edition presents all the research done until end of 2016 and integrates also the impact allocation rules for wool and leather from the european initiative Product Environmental Footprint (PEF). The allocation rules are important for sheep farming as raw material of any wool product,as well as for cattle farming and slaughterhouse for leather products. The cotton production allocation remaines unchained as published in the first edition. This second edition provides an update for the wool sweater, new cotton products and also for the first time an impact valuation of a leather product and the hot spots of its supply chain.

SES6-CT-2003-502705 RENEW Renewable fuels for advanced powertrains

LCA des Mobilfunksystems UMTS

Information contained herein have been compiled or arrived at ESU-services from sources believed ... more

Regionalized LCI modeling: The Case of Regionalized Cotton Datasets

Companies in the fashion industry are increasingly looking for reliable data to make informed dec... more Companies in the fashion industry are increasingly looking for reliable data to make informed decisions and to prioritize their sustainability efforts. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) provide a comprehensive and holistic way to assess environmental impacts over the full life cycle; yet, credible LCA data on the cultivation and processing of textiles is still limited. The World Apparel and Footwear Life Cycle Assessment Database (WALDB) was founded to solve this data challenge and to deliver robust data for environmental impact assessment and footprinting. One key limitation concerns LCA data on cotton cultivation. To date, the entire cultivation of cotton is represented in the form of two data points, i.e., country-generic LCA datasets which uniformly describe cotton cultivation in the context of the USA and in China. In other words, there is a lack in the coverage and geographical representativeness of LCA data representing global cotton cultivation. We believe that the integration of ...

Roadmap to the RSB Tool: Extension of the Sustainability Quick Check for Biofuels (SQCB) for Greenhouse Gas Calculations According to the European Renewable Energy Directive (RED)

The Sustainability Quick Check for Biofuels (SQCB) is a web-based tool for the evaluation of biof... more The Sustainability Quick Check for Biofuels (SQCB) is a web-based tool for the evaluation of biofuels on an LCA basis. It allows calculating the global warming potential, as well as the as overall environmental impacts of the biofuels’ life cycle. The tool was first based on the requirements for the Swiss ordinance on mineral oil tax. EMPA will expand the SQCB to include the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB) Certification Standard. The first step in this process is to include the regulatory requirements of the European Renewable Energy Directive 2009/28/EC of April 23, 2009 (RED), in particular the calculation of the greenhouse gas emissions according to the RED methodology. The implementation of the calculation of greenhouse gas emissions according to the Renewable Energy Directive will allow producers and importers to calculate the GHG emissions of their biofuels for the European context while profiting from the flexibility and comfort of the Sustainability Quick Check for ...