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CED CML 4.8 EF3.1 EN15804+A2 Environmental Cost Indicator 2025 EPD supplementary indicators ImpactWorld+ 2 - Damages version ImpactWorld+ 2 - Midpoint version IPCC 2021 ReCiPe 2016 - Endpoint/E ReCiPe 2016 - Endpoint/H ReCiPe 2016 - Endpoint/I ReCiPe 2016 - Midpoint/E ReCiPe 2016 - Midpoint/H ReCiPe 2016 - Midpoint/I Single categories TRACI 2.1

Environmental Cost Indicator 2025

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Cost (total) Partial cost: Acidification Partial cost: Climate change Partial cost: Climate change (biogenic) Partial cost: Climate change (fossil) Partial cost: Climate change (land use and land use change) Partial cost: Ecotoxicity, freshwater Partial cost: Ecotoxicity, freshwater (inorganics) Partial cost: Ecotoxicity, freshwater (organics) Partial cost: Eutrophication, freshwater Partial cost: Eutrophication marine Partial cost: Eutrophication, terrestrial Partial cost: Human toxicity, cancer Partial cost: Human toxicity, cancer (inorganics) Partial cost: Human toxicity, cancer (organics) Partial cost: Human toxicity, non-cancer Partial cost: Human toxicity, non-cancer (inorganics) Partial cost: Human toxicity, non-cancer (organics) Partial cost: Ionising radiation, human health Partial cost: Land use Partial cost: Ozone depletion Partial cost: Particulate Matter Partial cost: Photochemical ozone formation, human health Partial cost: Resource use, fossils Partial cost: Resource use, minerals and metals Partial cost: Water use

Partial cost: Human toxicity, non-cancer (inorganics)

Unit: €

Description:

USEtox consensus multimedia model. It spans two spatial scales: continental scale consisting of six compartment (urban air, rural air, agricultural soil natural soil, freshwater, costal marine water), and the global scale with the same structure but without the urban air. Specific groups of chemicals requires further work USEtox 2.1™ USEtox is the UNEP/SETAC scientific consensus model for characterizing human toxicological and ecotoxicological impacts of chemical emissions in life cycle assessment. It is based on existing LCIA toxicity characterization models. It includes all vital model elements of toxicological effects assessment. The USEtox model is built upon a multimedia model, integrating the entire cause-effect chain. It includes separate model components for calculating fate factors (FF), exposure factors (XF), and effect factors (EF). These components operate independently but their outputs are merged together to provide the characterization factors, CF, for human toxicity and freshwater ecotoxicity impacts, respectively. This is a sub-indicator of "Human toxicity, non-cancer". The sub-indicator's impacts should be reported if they exceed 5% of the parent's impacts (Human toxicity, non-cancer).

Emission factors: 8163 exchanges considered