Sources and Contributors to AusLCI

AusLCI has been a long term project of ALCAS being developed over the last 10 years. The development of the methodology and data have only been possible with significant contributions from practitioners, stakeholders and some funding agencies. Data suppliers who have provide data and funds to make the project happen.

The AusLCI database manual outlines the basic structure and data sources in the database and is available here.

Agriculture

Agricultural data sets have been developed since 2014 through projects funded by Australian industry bodies and State and Federal government departments, including RIRDC / Agrifutures Australia, GRDC, CRDC, SRA, MLA, HAL, FWPA, Dairy Australia, NSW DPI, and most recently an Australian Government National Agricultural Traceability Grant. Technical development of the data has been provided by Lifecycles, CSIRO, USQ and QDAFF.

Bio-based materials

Bio-based materials have been developed with support of the Australian government through the Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education.

Concrete

Concrete data have been developed by Lifecycles Pty Ltd with review from Rob Rouwette. The report is available at LCI of Cement and Concrete.

Energy and Transport

Energy and transport data have been provided by Lifecycles with some financial support of ALCAS.

Other Processes

Background data for AusLCI are filled with ecoinvent for the full licensed database, and for the emission factor database by a climate change impact only database developed by Lifecycles.