User Feedback: ecoinvent LCIA Methods Survey

Which methods would you like to see implemented in the ecoinvent database in the future?

Some answers were not clear to us. It seems that there is some confusion about “EF” and “ILCD”. The “EF” (=Environmental Footprint) methods implemented in ecoinvent are the ILCD methods. PEF and OEF are more than the EF methods, they are assessments. CML-IA is name “CML” in ecoinvent and EDIP (we assume a typo) and IMPACT 2002+ are “legacy” methods. We don’t know what “ARD” or “LPST” stand for. Feel free to contact Thomas with clarifications.

• Add regionalisation
• Adding all different elementary flow names from the methods mappings to the synonyms of the flow, but I think you do it already; highlighting for example exact matches, cas number matches, synonyms matches and manual flow mappings in separate lists for the methods
• Anticipate new standards to implement sensitivly faster
• Better linking to documentation of a process
• By continuying your work on transparency and dataset documentation, as well as integration of new datas.
• By making sure “Documentation” part of the ecoinvent dataset provide a precise description of the perimeter of the dataset (where the activity starts, ends. Which processes are included.
• complete and transparent documentation of LCI-data to better understand the LCIA results
• Disccusion/support forum with ecoivent and/or other users
• Early exchange and provision of documents before the publication of a new ecoinvent version. Perhaps a kind of partially public ticket system with information on which questions/suggestions/errors about LCIA Methods have already been received and their processing status, e.g. whether they will be corrected in the subsequent ecoinvent version.
• easier to access updated implementation reports
• Flag the inventory flows that are not characterized in the LCIA method applied

• Implementation of life cycle cost, and social
• Implementation of most recent methods for public disclosure
• Improving elementary flows linking with brightway2
• More LCI-based methods, eg, water use, land use, etc. Total waste would be good as well, as long as you can plug that in with non-elementary flows.
• Quick integration of new and relevant methods
• Quicker updates and software implementation
• Show the differences of the methods.
• Targeted webinars
• Tutorials, videos about the methodologies logic
• Clear indication of external fees for users of dynamic tools using ecoinvent datapoints.
• Feel free to contact me on the EF EN 15804 method, I might have suggestion and/or report potential errors?
• Have a better perspective on future developments
• I would appreciate if ecoinvent would make the results of this survey public.
• Implementation specific countries data
• Please specify the % of secondary materials in each material, and enable easy implementation of parameters for adjusting the %