Market information in life cycle assessment
Figure 1.3. The conceptual difference between attributional and
consequential LCA. The circles represent the total global environmental
exchanges. In the left circle, attributional LCA seeks to cut out the piece with
dotted lines that belongs to a specific human activity, e.g. car driving. In the
right circle, consequential LCA seeks to capture the change in
environmental exchanges that occur as a consequence of adding or
removing a specific human activity.
Attributional
Consequential
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