Capacity building for a national Life Cycle Inventory Database: Case - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Capacity building for a national Life Cycle Inventory Database: Case study of a Swiss-Brazilian project Cassia Ugaya (Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná) Roland Hischier ( Empa / Technology & Society Lab) Delcio Rodrigues (Instituto EKOS Brasil) Gil Anderi da Silva (Universidade de São Paulo) Funding / support:

Contents � Objective � Organization � Framework � Results � Recommendations 2

Objective To capacitate Brazilian centers to develop LCI to be exchangeable. 3

Organisation Swiss Reference Center seco EMPA Technical experts of ecoinvent Centre Ekos ibict Coordination USP UTFPR UnB BRA ITAL SENAI INT CETEC CNI CRA Technology / Knowledge Transfer Financial contributions 4

Timetable Swiss Experts Brazilian LCA experts Workshop Nov 04 (EkosBRASIL) Proposal Prep arat ion wo rksh op Workshop 1 Jul 05 Work areas: Manag em ent -> Stru ctu re, roles , budg et Inventori es 1 st (simpl Prep arat ion -> Qu ality c hecks, e) datase t exam ples wo rksh op Technical Side Workshop 2/I Feb 06 -> De sign of t echnical solution -> calculation routin e Workshop 2/II Mar 06 Wo rk areas: - E xam ple dat aset s Review - Q uality Guidelines - Project outline Final Feb 07 Workshop 5

Workshop programmes Workshop 1 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 BASICS (Cont.) Quality Guidelines overview ecoinvent Cont. 0830 - 1000 Technical system More and more excercises / discussions QG (i) possibilities how to Travelling Coffee break to Brasila Quality Guidelines Quality Guidelines Technical system less and less presentations … Problems - possible Cont. (ii) Discussion 1030 - 1200 solutions - solution in ecoinvent Lunch break Introduction Quality Guidelines Data format Open floor to Workshop Cont. (EcoSpold-ISO-etc.) participants decide 1330 - 1500 (incl. Organisational Objective(s), Content, what topic shall be questions) Limitations, Use … further investigated … Workshop 2/I Coffee break BASICS Quality Guidelines Organization "Wrap up" Monday Tuesday Wedensday Thursday overview of ecoinvent Cont. ecoinvent structure & - next steps 1530 - 1700 Feb 13, 2006 Feb 14, 2006 Feb 15, 2006 Feb 16, 2006 & in-deep presentation advantages / - timetable Dataset example (II) Training time (II) Brasilian QG of various components disadvantages (Cont.) - Matrix Approach Development of 0830 - 1000 Workshop 2/II Brazilian Quality Guidelines (QG) Travelling Coffee break Coffee break Coffee break Tuesday Wedensday Thursday Friday dito Dataset example (III) Brasilian QG (II) May 2 May 3 May 4 May 5 Homework (II) Homework (IV) Review Process (Waste / Emissions) 1030 - 1200 presentation no.2 presentation matrix in-deep explanation of 0830 - 1000 [Gil] approach [Carla] ecoinvent review procedure Lunch break Lunch break Lunch break Lunch break Travelling Coffee break Introduction Training time (I) Training time (III) Next steps / - goal/objectives - Ethanol Aluminium Timetable Homework (III) Discussion Training time 1330 - 1500 for Brazilian QG presentation no.3 matrix approach & review - summary from 1030 - 1200 [Thomas] consequences / next results Workshop 1 steps Coffee break Coffee break Coffee break Coffee break Lunch break Dataset example Weak documented Strategies for filling Homework / in-deep explanation of Organisation Introduction Discussion Homework (V) Brasilian DB Example Matrix-Approach 1530 - 1700 - goal/objectives those points that seem next steps Quality strategies to adopt / one ecoinvent dataset workshop 2A 1330 - 1500 presentations (creation & docu) Homework (I) difficult from homework guidelines obstacles to avoid / presentation no.1 [Sander/Jorge] collaboration(s) ? Coffee break excercises Homework (II) Discussion Discussion Next steps presentation no.1 Cont. quality guidelines (incl. Timetable) discussion rounds 1530 - 1700 [Cassia] content & "Wrap up" 6

Results presented in the Final Workshop � São Paulo � Presentations: � Outcomes � Around 70 people � Steel dataset (expecting 20) � Alcohol dataset � Mathematical modelling � Quality guideline 7

8 Results presented at CILCA 2007 Awarded with one of the best presentations

Results – Lessons Learned from the framework � Project gathered stakeholders from different parts of the country � Gaps between the workshops gave time for: � experimenting, bringing results and/or doubts to the workshop � increasing discussions between the different Brazilian LCA experts 9

Lessons Learned - From first datasets established � Part of the information is available in associations, annual reports, national statistics and/or environmental reports; but: � the type of information, as well as the way it is published depends very much on the source; � quite few information is available of land use and infrastructure to be used in LCI; 10

Lessons learned - what should be done next time … � financial support to work in-between the workshops � a clear commitment to follow up the capacity that has been built � mechanisms to ensure that the same group is during the complete training process 11

Lessons learned - The perspective from the lecturer � In Brazil there are very motivated people dealing with the instrument of LCA; � Workshop group has a very unequal knowledge of the LCA methodology; � Universities involved dealt with LCA a couple of years, � other institutions just starting with this topic; � Thus, the various workshops along this project were not always very efficient / not always very helpful in building capacity next to all of the participants. 12

Decisions in the final workshop � Quality guideline � Define a quality guideline � Send it to the revision of international experts � Establish first datasets according to the quality guidelines as pilot projects 13

Decisions in the final workshop � Unit process x System 14

Current Activities - Brazilian Life Cycle Inventory Project � Coordination IBICT / MCT � Funded by FINEP � Timeframe: 2 years � Launched: May 2007 � Universities involved � UTFPR, USP, UnB � Deliverables � 3 Datasets Road transportation, Hydroelectricity, Diesel � 1 Databank � 1 Quality guideline for establishing datasets 15

16 And then? Which inventory??

DEFINE PRIORITIES!! DEFINITION OF MAIN SECTORS (products, influence in other products, impacts) DEFINITION: SCREENING COMPARISON UNIT PROCESSES OF TECHNOLOGIES INPUTS / OUTPUTS SENSITIVE ANALYSIS 17

Example: Definition of main sectors / products Ethanol, Agriculture Soja, ... Iron ore, gold, Mining ... Paper, Wood products furniture Steel production .... Farming 18

Definition of an impact assessment method � CML � Ecoindicator 99 � TRACI � EDIP � IMPACT 2002+ � .... 19

Screening comparison of the technologies � Existing inventories � Main processes Ethanol A production sugarcane plantation B hydropower ... Steel production Different farming ... 20

21 Country’s Main Products LCA

Process contribution using single score of Ecoindicator 99 (A) 22

23 Normalization - Ecoindicator 99 (A)

24 Sensitivity Analysis - Ecoindicator 99 (A)

25 Ecoindicator 99 (A): which process?

26 Ecoindicator 99 (A): which substance?

Conclusions and Recommendations � The framework was succesfull � There is space for improvements, mainly: � Involve participants with the same knowledge in LCA � Involve persons instead of organizations � Support � To define which inventories, priorities must be done 27

28 Any questions? Thank you!