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Japanese Progress in LCA
Current Activities of the National LCA Project in Japan
Masataka Yano; Ryosuke Aoki; Yoshihumi Nakahara; Norihiro Itsubo; Toshio Ohta
Corresponding author:: Masataka, Yano, Japan Environmental Management Association for Industry (JEMAI), Hirokohji Building, 17-6, Ueno 1-chome, Taitoh-ku, Tokyo 110-8535, Japan, e-mail: yanom@jemai.or.jp
The Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI)
has launched a national project, "Development of Assessment Technology
of Life Cycle Environmental Impacts of Products" (commonly
known as the LCA Project). The activities of this project
will be continued for 5 yeas since fiscal 1998 with an overall
budget of total 850 million yen. The LCA Project aims to develop
a highly reliable LCA database and LCA methodology which can
be readily used throughout Japan. In this paper, the overall plans
and current activities of project are indicated.
| | Keywords: impact assessment; inventory data; LCA; national project; database system |
5 LCA (5) 261-264 (2000)
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