Project that counts on Espaço Eco Foundation and CTBE stipulates the inclusion of datasets in the National Life Cycle Inventory Database – SICVBrasil

Embrapa will make more than 100 life cycle inventories of Brazilian agricultural production available to be included in Ecoinvent, a Swiss Life Cycle Assessment database of international scope, and in the National Life Cycle Inventory Database – SICVBrasil. The project includes the generation of 80 inventories of agricultural, forest, livestock and agroindustrial products, 35 inventories of agricultural operations and over 30 sets of information on the transportation of inputs and intermediate products.

The life cycle inventories of agricultural products are the basis of LCA studies, which can show opportunities for improvement in our production processes in light of sustainability, as well as for increasing our competitiveness in international trade", explains the Embrapa Environment researcher Marília Folegatti.

The datasets will have a regional focus and will be aggregated as national inventories. Some of the inventories will be published in the early months of 2017. In addition to Embrapa, the project is going to involve the National Laboratory of Bioethanol Science and Technology (CTBE, from the acronym in Portuguese) and the Espaço Eco Foundation (FEE), which will contribute to the data collection and organization.

Ecoinvent is going to review the data in compliance with international standards, store them, and, alongside Embrapa, publish them it the National Inventory Database – SICVBrasil. "The collaboration on data collection with Embrapa and other research institutions in the context of an international project is a unique opportunity to have all parties contribute to the availability of high-quality data", comments ecoinvent's project manager, Amir Safaei.

"With the inclusion of datasets in SICVBrasil, we will have agribusiness that will increase the relevance of our database at national and international levels", concludes the Life Cycle Assessment coordinator of the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (Ibict), Tiago Braga.

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Translation: Mariana de Lima Medeiros