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Data Sources 
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Task Force 1 of the UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative 
prepared
a report on the available Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) databases
around the world. An update of a previous summary prepared in
May 2002 by Norris and Notten, the report identifies LCI databases
including public and proprietary, or restricted-access, databases.
It includes descriptions of activities that aim to develop publicly-available
databases in Africa, the APEC region and Asia, Europe, and the
Americas (Canada, USA and Latin America). LCA software programs
that contain inventory data are also included in this effort. The report
also lists institutions or organizations that provide LCI data
in a less formal way, as this is important to get a feel for the global
spread of LCI data. Also with the aim of facilitating access
to global LCI data resources, the report provides information on regional
LCA networks and societies. The focus of the report is on LCI databases
and LCI data providers. It therefore does not list general environmental
or process data sources (i.e. data must be in the form of life
cycle inventories), nor does it list institutions working solely with
LCA methodology development. The LCI data resources are summarized
in the report in a series of tables: global spread of LCI data resources;
LCA societies and networks; national database projects; industry
databases; other data sources; and LCA software. The appendix presents
brief descriptive paragraphs of all the data sources and organizations
mentioned in the report.
Summary of Global LCI Data Resources (PDF) (34 pp, 420 KB)