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On the nordic guidelines for life cycle assessment

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In 1991, the Nordic Council of Ministers initiated a project on LCA. The objectives of the project have been to develop a Code of Practise for LCA built on Nordic consensus, to provide industry and other practitioners with a set of guidelines for LCA, mainly in “key issue identification” LCAs and to influence the international discussion on the subject. The final phase of the project is now being finished, resulting in Guidelines for LCA, which arc presented here briefly. Important topics are system boundary setting, cutoff criteria, allocations, data quality and impact assessment methods.

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    Göran Finnvedcn & Lars-Gunnar Lindfors

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Finnvedcn, G., Lindfors, LG. On the nordic guidelines for life cycle assessment. Int. J. LCA 1, 45–48 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02978635

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