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Current activities of the national LCA project in Japan

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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.

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  1. Japan Environmental Management Association for Industry (JEMAI), Hirokohji Building, 17-6, Ueno 1-chome, 110-8535, Taitoh-ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Masataka Yano, Ryohsuke Aoki, Yoshihumi Nakahara, Norihiro Itsubo & Toshio Ohta

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Yano, M., Aoki, R., Nakahara, Y. et al. Current activities of the national LCA project in Japan. Int. J. LCA 5, 261–264 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02977577

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