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2. LCA in transport: what, when, who, how and why
2.1 LCA methodology
2.1.1 Definition, standards and environmental declarations
Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a multi-criteria, multi-stage environmental evaluation method for a product (project, service, industrial process) whose environmental impacts are calculated on the basis of a battery of selected criteria. As its name suggests, this calculation covers the entire "life cycle", i.e. "from cradle to grave": extraction of raw materials, construction, use, maintenance and end-of-life....
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Bibliography
Bibliography
- (1) - CITEPA - Oxydes d'azote – NOx, - oct. 2016 https://www.citepa.org/fr/air-et-climat/ polluants/aep-item/oxydes-d-azote
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Standards and norms
- Greenhouse gases – Quantifying and reporting greenhouse gas emissions for organizations – ISO 14064-1 application guidelines - FD ISO/TR 14069 - 2014
- Value-based management – Functional expression of needs and functional specifications – Requirements for expressing and validating the need to be met in the process of acquiring or obtaining a product - NF EN 16258 - 2013
- Environmental management – Lifecycle...
Regulations
Loi n° 82-1153 du 30 décembre 1982 d'orientation des transports intérieurs (consolidated version as of April 03, 2020)
U.S. National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. § 4321 et seq. (1969)
World Charter for Nature adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on October 28, 1982
French Water Act no. 92-3 of January 3, 1992
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Organizations – Federations – Associations (non-exhaustive list)
French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME) https://www.ademe.fr/
Center interprofessionnel technique d'études de la pollution atmosphérique (CITEPA) https://www.citepa.org/fr/
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