Commentary and Discussion
Scope 3 and Organizational LCA
2015 Volume 11 Issue 2 Pages 82-85
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2015 Volume 11 Issue 2 Pages 82-85
An LCA has been developed as a tool to evaluate the environmental aspects of the products. However, the applications to evaluate the environmental aspect of the organization using the method of LCA have been paid attention recently, which might be divided into two types of the methods. One is the method to focus only on the greenhouse gasses（GHGs）,（i.e. Carbon Footprint of Organization or Organizational Carbon Footprint）, and another is the method to evaluate the multi environmental aspects of the organization（i.e. LCA of Organization or Organizational LCA）. The former should include Scope 3 by GHG protocol of WRI/WBCSD and ISO-TR-14069（2013）, and in the latter Organizational Environmental Footprint promoted by EC-DG.Environment and ISO/TS 14072（2014）should be included. The current situation of the activities related to the above methodologies in the world is introduced, and the structure of this special issue associated with that background is introduced in this paper.
