ISO/TR TECHNICAL REPORT 14047 Second edition 2012-06-01 Environmental management Life cycle assessment t Illustrative examples on how to apply IsO 14044 to impact assessment situations Management environnemental — Analyse du cycle de vie — Exemples illustrant I'application de IisO 14044 a des situations d'évaluation de I'impact du cycle de vie Reference number ISO/TR 14047:2012(E) @ ISO 2012 yIHS under Not for Resale ISO/TR 14047:2012(E) COPYRIGHTPROTECTEDDOCUMENT @ISO2012 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means Iso's member body in the country of the requester. ISO copyright office Case postale 56 : CH-1211 Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail [email protected] Web www.iso.org Published in Switzerland @ ISO 2012 - All rights reserved itted without license from IHS Not for Resale ISO/TR 14047:2012(E) Contents Page Foreword .iv Introduction 1 Scope 2 Organization of examples in this Technical Report. 2.1 Mandatoryandoptionalelements.. 2.2 2.3 Organization of document and route map ..... 3 Elements of LCIA as illustrated in the examples ... 3.1 Overview..... 3.2 Mandatoryelements.... 3.3 Optional elements (related to Is0 14044:2006, 4.4.3). 13 4 ExamplesofthemandatoryelementsofLCiA.. 15 4.1 General description.... 4.2 Example 1 - Use of two different materials for gas pipelines .. 15 4.3 Example 2 - Two acidification impact category indicators .. 22 4.4 Example 3 - Impacts of Greenhouses Gas (GHG) emissions and carbon sinks on forestry activities........ 28 4.5 Example4-Endpointcategoryindicatorsassessment 38 4.6 Example 5 - Choice of material for a wind spoiler in car design study 44 5 ExamplesoftheoptionalelementsofLCiA 48 5.1 Overview...... 5.2 Example 1 continued.. .49 5.3 Example 2 continued.. .50 5.4 Example 6 - Normalization of LCIA indicator results for the use of different refrigerator gases.... .52 5.5 Example 7 - Normalization in a waste management study.. .58 5.6 Example 1 continued... 65 5.7 5.8 Example 8 - A technique for the determination of weighting factors .67 5.9 Example 1 continued, 72 5.10 Example 5 continued.. 74 5.11 Example 1 continued... 75 Copyright International Organizaion for Standardizllon'ghts reserved ili from IHS Not for Resale