Update on Impact Categories, Normalisation and Weighting in LCA

Source/sub-sector     TOTAL CAN. USA LAT. AM. AFRICA W. EUR. E. EUR. CIS M. EAST INDIA+ CHINA+ E ASIA OCEAN. JAPAN INT. HIP
  Low-NOx
POCP (LN)
High-NOx
POCP (HN)
  LN HN LN LN HN HN LN LN LN LN LN LN HN  
      Tg
nmVOC
Tg
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Tg
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Tg
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Tg
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Tg nmVOC Tg nmVOC Tg nmVOC
Total     177.5 2.9 19.0 20.3 30.2 17.7 3.1 17.0 12.3 18.7 18.2 11.0 1.6 5.4 0.0
                                   
Fossil fuel: combustion     41.6 1.2 8.8 3.7 1.4 8.1 1.3 5.3 2.0 1.2 2.7 2.5 0.8 2.5 0.0
Fossil fuel: non-combustion     27.3 0.8 1.4 3.1 2.8 1.8 0.3 6.9 7.4 0.3 1.2 1.0 0.3 0.0 0.0
Biofuel     30.7 0.1 0.9 2.3 8.3 0.2 0.0 0.1 0.7 8.5 6.3 3.3 0.1 0.0 0.0
Industrial processes/solvents     33.5 0.5 6.4 2.3 2.0 5.9 1.0 2.9 0.9 2.9 3.9 1.8 0.3 2.6 0.0
Landuse/waste treatment     44.4 0.3 1.5 9.0 15.7 1.7 0.5 1.8 1.3 5.7 4.1 2.4 0.2 0.3 0.0
                                   
Total     TOTAL CAN. USA LAT. AM. AFRICA W. EUR. E. EUR. CIS M. EAST INDIA+ CHINA+ E ASIA OCEAN. JAPAN INT. HIP
  Low-NOx
POCP (LN)
High-NOx
POCP (HN)
  LN HN LN LN HN HN LN LN LN LN LN LN HN LN
  value (TgC2H4/Tg) value (TgC2H4/Tg) Tg C2H4 Tg C2H4 Tg C2H4 Tg C2H4 Tg C2H4 Tg C2H4 Tg C2H4 Tg C2H4 Tg C2H4 Tg C2H4 Tg C2H4 Tg C2H4 Tg C2H4 Tg C2H4 Tg C2H4
Fossil fuel: combustion 0.4 0.5 18.7 0.5 4.4 1.5 0.5 4.0 0.6 2.1 0.8 0.5 1.1 1.0 0.3 1.3 0.0
Fossil fuel: non-combustion 0.4 0.5 11.3 0.3 0.7 1.2 1.1 0.9 0.1 2.8 3.0 0.1 0.5 0.4 0.1 0.0 0.0
Biofuel 0.4 0.4 12.3 0.0 0.4 0.9 3.3 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.3 3.4 2.5 1.3 0.0 0.0 0.0
Industrial processes/solvents 0.5 0.5 16.7 0.3 3.2 1.2 1.0 2.9 0.5 1.5 0.5 1.5 2.0 0.9 0.1 1.3 0.0
Landuse/waste treatment 0.4 0.4 17.8 0.1 0.6 3.6 6.3 0.7 0.2 0.7 0.5 2.3 1.6 1.0 0.1 0.1 0.0
TOTAL POCP, Tg C2H4 76.8                            
Global anthropogenic methane emissions in 1990 (EDGAR Database ver. 2.0, RIVM 1996)
                                   
      TOTAL CAN. USA LAT. AM. AFRICA W. EUR. E. EUR. CIS M. EAST INDIA+ CHINA+ E ASIA OCEAN. JAPAN INT. SHIP
Total (Tg CH4)     320.2 3.9 41.6 32.4 26.8 23.4 10.8 47.0 10.3 49.9 46.7 18.6 5.7 3.2 0.02
POCP factor (TgC2H4/Tg CH4)     0.007                            
Total, POCP Tg C2H4     2.2                            
Global anthropogenic CO emissions in 1990 (EDGAR Database ver. 2.0, RIVM 1996)
  Source/sub-sector POCP factor TOTAL CAN. USA LAT. AM. AFRICA W. EUR. E. EUR. CIS M. EAST INDIA+ CHINA+ E ASIA OCEAN. JAPAN INT. SHIP
Total, Tg CO   974.3 10.9 95.1 148.5 239.2 68.5 16.9 65.6 32.3 110.0 111.5 57.0 6.8 11.8 0.1  
POCP factor (Tg C2H4/Tg)     0.04 0.03 0.04 0.04 0.03 0.03 0.04 0.04 0.04 0.04 0.04 0.04 0.03 0.04  
Total, POCP Tg C2H4   37.0 0.4 2.9 5.9 9.6 2.1 0.5 2.6 1.3 4.4 4.5 2.3 0.3 0.4 0.0  

 



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