Guiding principles for the present Guide

摘要: A third international player in the field of LCA is UNEP (the United Nations Environmental Programme), represented by its Department of Technology, Industry and Economics in Paris. UNEP’s focus is mainly on the application of LCA, particularly in developing countries. An important contribution was the publication in 1996 of UNEP’s user-friendly and easy-toread guide to LCA, entitled Life Cycle Assessment: What it is, and what to do about it. A second publication of interest is Towards Global Use of Life Cycle Assessment, published in 1999. Furthermore, a series of international workshops dealing with various aspects of LCA are being organised by the Environmental Protection Agency of the US (US-EPA) and CML in the Netherlands, under the auspices of UNEP.SETAC and UNEP are now co-operating in a major new task, concerning the identification of best available practice in the field of life cycle assessment …