ILCD Handbook: Recommendations for Life Cycle Impact Assessment in the European context. JRC European commission Vasa, Publications Office of the European Union, 2011.
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Life Cycle Thinking (LCT) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) are the scientific approaches behind moder environmental policies and business decision support related to Sustainable Production and Consumption (SCP). The International Reference Life Cycle Data System (ILCD) Handbook provides governments and businesses with a basis for assuring quality and consistency of life cycle data, methods and assessments. This guidance document provides recommendations on models and characterisation factors that should be used in Life Cycle Impact Assessement (LCIA) to analyse the emissions into air, water and soil, as well as the natural resources consumed in terms of their contributions to different impacts on human health, natural environment, and availability of resources. It supports the calculation of indicators for different impacts such as climate change, ozone depletion, photochemical ozone formation, respiratory inorganics, ionising radiation, acidification, eutrophication, human toxicity, ecotoxicity, land use and resource depletion for use in a common integrated framework, such as LCA. The principle target audience for this document is the Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) expert but also the experienced LCA practitioner and decision makers that are interested in the Impact Assessment models and indicators used in LCA. 143

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