I'm trying to pass through characterization into normalization for a product which I found on literatture in an excel sheet.
The method I'm using is IMPACT 2002+.
I considered putting my impact categories as follows:
- Human health: human toxicity + respiratory effects + ionizing radiation + ozone layer depletion + photochemical oxidation
- Ecosystem quality: Aquatic ecotoxicity + terrestrial ecotoxicity + Terrestrial Acid/nutria + land occupation + aquatic acidification + aquatic eutrophication
- Climate change: global warming
- Resources : Nonrenewable resources + mineral resources
However, this calculation is incorrect according to the prior example, which was created entirely in SimaPro. I believe there are several factors that are missing.
Anyone could help me ?
maybe before checking 2002+ which is EU focused you could take a look at the new method they developed IMPACT world https://www.impactworldplus.org/en/methodology.php
Dear Moez,
I think you might want to use the ReCiPe 2016 method instead. Would you be able to do that? ReCiPe calculates 18 midpoint indicators and 3 endpoint indicators.
Here, endpoint indicators show the environmental impact at three higher levels of aggregation, being the effect on human health, the biodiversity, and the resource scarcity. With each aggregation step, uncertainty in the results increases !! I'm using GaBi software not SimaPro, so it came to my mind suddenly now.
Best wishes,
Viktoria
Thank you for your suggestion Viktoria Mannheim
I choose Impact 2002+ methodology because I intend to study the climate change damage of my products as an endpoint as I'm trying to identify their carbon footprint.
I will conduct sensetivity analysis afterwards and see the difference between ReCipe 2006, Impact 2002+ and CML-baseline.
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