Commentary and Discussion
Dissemination of LCA methodology through LCA software and database
2005 Volume 1 Issue 2 Pages 96-101
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2005 Volume 1 Issue 2 Pages 96-101
In 1998, the Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) launched a five-year national project entitled “the LCA Project”. The purpose of the project is to develop common LCA methodology as well as a highly reliable database that can be shared in Japan.
Activities over these five years have resulted in the supply of LCI data on some 280 products from Industrial associations voluntarily provided data. The results of these activities are currently being made available on the Internet in the form of an LCA database. In addition, a method entitled “Life-cycle Impact assessment Method based on Endpoint modeling (LIME)” was developed. It is expected that these results will be widely used in Japan. This paper presents an outline of the results of the LCA database and the activity for the dissemination in JEMAI.
