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Development of damage function for stratospheric ozone layer depletion

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The purpose of our study was to develop damage functions due to ozone layer depletion, that related the emission of ozone depleting substances (ODS) to the damage of category endpoints. The ozone layer depletion causes many types of damage such as skin cancer, cataract, adverse effect to crop and plant growth. We assessed the increase of skin cancer incidence risk. The damage function have been developed with connecting the main processes on ozone depletion, emission of ODS, increase of tropospheric ODS, increase of stratospheric ODS, change of total ozone, change of B region ultra-violet (UV-B) at the surface, and the increase of skin cancer incidence. As the result, we could introduce damage functions of melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer incidence for 13 species of ODSs and damage factors based on the disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). We also compared the DALYs value with the damage factors of Eco-indicator 99 (egalitarian and hierarchic value), and it was found that our result was several ten times as small except methyl bromide. Furthermore, a case study for refrigerator was performed and it showed that shifting to less ozone depleting substances reduced the risk of skin cancer incidence to one-fourteenth in DALYs.

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Abbreviations

ODSs:

Ozone Depleting Substances

CFCs:

Chlorofluorocarbons

DALYs:

Disability-adjusted Life Years

HCFCs:

Hydrochlorofluorocarbons

ODP:

Ozone Depletion Potential

TCL:

Tropospheric Chlorine Loading

EESC:

Equivalent Effective Stratospheric Chlorine

UV:

B-B Region Ultra violet

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  1. Pacific Consultants Co.ltd., 2-7-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Kentaro Hayashi

  2. Japan Environment Management Association for Industry (JEMAI), 1-17-6, Ueno, Taito-ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Norihiro Itsubo

  3. National Institute for Resources and Environment (NIRE), AIST, MITI, 16-3, Onogawa, Tsukuba, Japan

    Atsushi Inaba

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Hayashi, K., Itsubo, N. & Inaba, A. Development of damage function for stratospheric ozone layer depletion. Int. J. LCA 5, 265–272 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02977578

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