brightway-lca / bw_recipe_2016

ReCiPe 2016 LCIA method for Brightway
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bw_recipe_2016

Import the official ReCiPe characterization factors into Brightway.

Warning: These CFs have not yet been verified!

Impact categories

Midpoints

Note that not all perspectives are available for all midpoints.

Endpoints

ReCiPe 2016 provides five endpoints:

Combined with the three perspectives, the following endpoints are available:

Aggregated Endpoints

Ecosystems

Aggregation of all ecosystem endpoints:

Human health

Resources

Single score

Note that the ReCiPe 2016 report does not provide aggregation weights for a single score indicator. Weights were taken from the Stepwise LCIA method, and adjusted from global species extinction to regional species extinction for one year by dividing by 1000. See this notebook to see the relative weights of each input indicator for every activity in ecoinvent 3.6, cutoff system model.

Usage

from bw_recipe_2016 import add_recipe_2016
add_recipe_2016()

Installation

pip install bw-recipe-2016

Parsing ReCiPe output files

This library goes as far as possible to avoid making any subjective judgments. It does, however, correct or amend data to provide consistent outputs across impact categories. For example, it fixes the following issues:

Contributing

Details on how to contribute