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Prioritisation within The Integrated Product Policy

Contents

Preface

• Project objectives and target groups
• Project organisation

Summary

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1 Environmental impact of product groups

• 1.1 Environmental impact of Danish production and consumption
• 1.2 Product groups with largest environmental impacts
  • 1.2.1 Product groups within Danish production
  • 1.2.2 Product groups within Danish consumption
  • 1.2.3 Inherent limitations of product group aggregation
  • 1.2.4 Danish consumption divided according to product functions
  • 1.2.5 Largest environmental impacts per DKK
• 1.3 Processes with largest environmental impacts
• 1.4 Results per impact category
  • 1.4.1 Environmental impact of Danish production and consumption
  • 1.4.2 Environmental impact intensities
  • 1.4.3 Impact of average and marginal consumption
  • 1.4.4 Processes with large contributions to each impact category
• 1.5 Uncertainty of the results
  • 1.5.1 Confidence intervals
  • 1.5.2 Causes of the highest variations in the results
  • 1.5.3 Uncertainty from looking at one single year
• 1.6 Comparison with results of previous similar studies
• 1.7 Implications of the results for important product groups
  • 1.7.1 Introduction
  • 1.7.2 Food
  • 1.7.3 Housing
  • 1.7.4 Basic non-ferrous metals
  • 1.7.5 Transport by ship
  • 1.7.6 Wholesale trade
  • 1.7.7 Electricity
  • 1.7.8 Industrial cooling equipment
  • 1.7.9 Automobiles
  • 1.7.10 Leisure
  • 1.7.11 Clothing
  • 1.7.12 Hygiene
  • 1.7.13 Education and research

2 Methodology

• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 National accounting input-output tables (IO-tables)
• 2.3 Limitations of IO-tables for environmental analysis
• 2.4 Including unclassified imports
  • 2.4.1 Tourism expenditures
• 2.5 Adding more environmental exchanges
  • 2.5.1 Validating the completeness of the toxicity assessment
  • 2.5.2 Data sources for the emissions included in the extended NAMEA
  • 2.5.3 Emissions in the official Danish NAMEA
  • 2.5.4 Internal work file from SSF-project (Pedersen 2003)
  • 2.5.5 Internal work file from lcafood.dk (Dalgaard & Halberg 2004)
  • 2.5.6 Point sources for N and P (Laursen et al. 2000)
  • 2.5.7 Mass flow analyses
  • 2.5.8 Ozone depleting substances (ODP)
  • 2.5.9 Particles (PM10)
  • 2.5.10 Pesticides
  • 2.5.11 Land use (AIS)
  • 2.5.12 Missing use stage emissions
• 2.6 Adjusting the level of aggregation of industries
• 2.7 Adjusting the level of aggregation of consumption
  • 2.7.1 Accounting for investments and FISIM
  • 2.7.2 Combining products in the use stage
• 2.8 Improving the modelling for imported products
• 2.9 Adjusting for market constraints
• 2.10 Impact assessment
  • 2.10.1 Characterisation factors
  • 2.10.2 New impact category: nature occupation
  • 2.10.3 Normalisation
  • 2.10.4 Weighting
  • 2.10.5 Limitations of the impact assessment
• 2.11 Uncertainty analysis
  • 2.11.1 Uncertainty due to aggregation in the Danish IO-table
  • 2.11.2 Importance of aggregation level across national IO-tables
  • 2.11.3 Geographical variation in inputs to industries
  • 2.11.4 Aggregation vs. geographical uncertainty
  • 2.11.5 Emission factor uncertainty for Danish emissions
  • 2.11.6 Emission factor uncertainty for foreign emissions
• 2.12 Adjusting for differences in improvement options
• 2.13 Calculation routines and validation

3 Danish LCA normalisation data for year 1999

4 New product groups for environmental labels

• 4.1 Identification procedure
• 4.2 Car purchase and driving
• 4.3 Tents and outdoor equipment
• 4.4 Transport services
• 4.5 Energy for temperature regulation in buildings
• 4.6 Candles
• 4.7 Electricity

5 Resource and waste flows

• 5.1 Introduction to material flow analyses
• 5.2 Data sources
  • 5.2.1 Danish resource extraction
  • 5.2.2 Foreign resource extraction
  • 5.2.3 Current amounts of deposited and hazardous waste in Denmark
• 5.3 TMR for Denmark 1999
• 5.4 Product groups with high material requirements
• 5.5 Product groups with high amounts of deposited waste in DK

6 Detailed analysis of four specific areas

• 6.1 Introduction
• 6.2 Agriculture/foods
• 6.3 Electrical and electronic equipment
• 6.4 Retail trade
• 6.5 Textiles and apparel

7 Database development

• 7.1 Introduction
• 7.2 Adding physical units
• 7.3 Further disaggregation
• 7.4 User's guide to the LCA database
• 7.5 How to use the database for hybrid LCA
  • 7.5.1 Tiered hybrid analysis
  • 7.5.2 Embedded hybrid analysis
• 7.6 Prioritising future data collection for the LCA database

Literature

Annex A. Produktgruppernes navne på dansk

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