Environmental News no. 78, 2005

Impact categories, normalisation and weighting in LCA

Abstract
The guideline presents updated normalisation and weightingfactors for use in LCA-work based on the EDIP method. The guideline also suggests normalisation factors, that can be used for calculation within EU or a global perspective. The guideline include an example to show the differences observed when using different approaches.

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