What s new in PSILCA 2.0

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1 Webinar What s new in PSILCA 2.0 Franziska Eisfeldt GreenDelta GmbH 14 December 2017

2 Agenda

3 Agenda 1. About PSILCA 2. What s new in PSILCA 2.0? 3. PSILCA variants 4. More information

4 About PSILCA

5 PSILCA Product Social Inventory Life Cycle Assessment Database for S-LCA Calculate and assess social impacts of products along life cycles Detect social hotspots

6 Eora as backbone Eora MRIO database as backbone (Lenzen et al.): 189 individual countries represented by a total of 14,838 sectors (classified by entity: industries and commodities) high-resolution heterogeneous classification, or 26- sector harmonized classification Monetary process connections

7 26 harmonized sectors (industries) for Afghanistan Structure of processes 1022 detailed sectors (industries and commodities) for UK Screenshots from openlca

8 Social indicators Social indicators and its structure mainly inspired by UNEP/SETAC guidance book, PRé Roundtable, own research: STAKEHOLDER (Workers, Local communities, Value chain actors, Society, Consumers) SUBCATEGORY (Fair salary, Discrimination, Indigenous rights ) INDICATOR (qualitative and quantitative ones)

9 Social indicators Indicator structure in openlca Screenshots from openlca

10 Indicator assessment Assessed by an ordinal risk scale of different risk and opportunity levels Modelled as elementary output flows per process Quantified by worker hours Reliability/ validity assessed by data quality indicators

11 Data quality Data quality assessed by a square, pedigree matrix (based on Weidema and Wesnæs (1996), but adapted to social LCA, Ciroth and Franze 2014) Reliability of source Conformance of the data set Screenshot from openlca

12 Indicator assessment Assessed by an ordinal risk scale of different risk and opportunity levels Modelled as elementary output flows per process Quantified by worker hours Reliability/ validity assessed by data quality indicators Both the indicator values and the risk evaluation schemes are provided Risk levels can be modified individually

13 Screenshot from openlca Process outputs in PSILCA

14 Data documentation Social aspects in process Screenshot from openlca

15 What s new in PSILCA 2.0?

16 Updated indicators Current sources and data were used Either same sources as before or other sources that suit better More current values Larger country and/ or sector coverage Other calculation of indicator values Adapted evaluation of risks Updated risk scales Changes documented in PSILCA manual (Eisfeldt, Ciroth 2017)

17 12 new indicators: New indicators Stakeholder Subcategory Indicator Unit of measurement Workers Discrimination Women in the sectoral labour force ratio Men in the sectoral labour force ratio Value chain actors Promoting social responsibility Social responsibility along the supply chain # per 100,000 employees Society Health and Safety Life expectancy at birth Years Contribution to economic development Contribution of the sector to economic development % of GDP Contrib. of sector to env. load, CO, I-AIR-CO_agg kg, emission to air, total Contrib. of sector to env. load, NMVOC, I-AIR-NMVOC_agg kg, emission to air, total Local communities Safe and healthy living conditions Contrib. of sector to env. load, NOx, I-AIR-NOx_agg kg, emission to air, total Contrib. of sector to env. load, PM10, I-AIR-PM10_agg kg, emission to air, total Contrib. of sector to env. load, SO2, I-AIR-SO2_agg kg, emission to air, total Contrib. of sector to env. load, CO2-equiv, I-GHG-CO2eTOTAL_agg kg, emission to air, total, CO2 equiv. Consumers Transparency Presence of business practices deceptive or unfair to consumers # per 10,000 employees Total of 65 indicators addressing 19 subcategories and 5 stakeholders New indicators documented in PSILCA manual (Eisfeldt, Ciroth 2017)

18 Positive evaluation: Process Indicator: Contribution of the sector to economic development Screenshots from openlca

19 Positive evaluation: Results Top 5 direct process contributions Screenshot from openlca

20 Positive evaluation: Results Impact contributions Contribution tree Screenshots from openlca

21 Calculation with data quality Screenshot from openlca

22 Calculation with data quality Screenshots from openlca

23 Calculation with data quality Inventory results Screenshots from openlca

24 Calculation with data quality Impact assessment Screenshots from openlca

25 Value added as activity variable Value added provided as alternative activity variable Calculated as difference between inputs and outputs of each process Measured in USD Screenshot from openlca

26 Value added as activity variable Value Added Working time Screenshots from openlca

27 Value added as activity variable Value Added Working time Screenshots from openlca

28 Value added as activity variable Value Added Working time Screenshots from openlca

29 Life Cycle Impact Assessment Characterization factors Usually the following factors are used Risk level Factor Very low risk 0.01 Low risk 0.1 Medium risk 1 High risk 10 Very high risk 100 No risk/ opportunity 0 Low opportunity 0.1 Medium opportunity 1 High opportunity 10 No data 0.1

30 PSILCA variants

31 PSILCA variants Database available in 3 different variants Starter, Professional, Developer distinguished by: Completeness of data (regarding the valuation basis) Data quality information Applied cut-off criterion

32 PSILCA variants Features Starter Professional Developer SimaPro Risk-assessed indicators General information about sources Raw values (initial values) - - Information about data quality per process Possibility to change risk levels on process level Possibility to change overall risk evaluation scheme Cut-off 1E-5 1E-7 none 1E-4

33 More information

34 PSILCA manual: More information Ciroth, A./ Eisfeldt, F. (2017): PSILCA A Product Social Impact Life Cycle Assessment database. Database version 2.0. Documentation available at: and

35 Purchase Prices and further description under: org/database/psilca

36 Thank you! Contact Franziska Eisfeldt GreenDelta GmbH Muellerstrasse 135, Berlin

37 References Ciroth, A., Eisfeldt, F. (2017): PSILCA A Product Social Impact Life Cycle Assessment database. Database version 2.0. Documentation, available at Fontes, J. et al. (2014): Roundtable for Product Social Metrics Platinum Members, Handbook for Product Social Impact Assessment, Version 2.0. PRé Sustainability. Available at Last access: 10 August 2015 Lenzen M, Kanemoto K; Moran D, and Geschke A (2012): Mapping the structure of the world economy, Environmental Science & Technology 46(15) pp DOI: /es300171x Lenzen, M., Moran, D., Kanemoto, K., Geschke, A. (2013): Building Eora: A Global Multi-regional Input-Output Database at High Country and Sector Resolution, Economic Systems Research, 25:1, 20-49, DOI: / ProSuite (2013): ProSuite (Prospective Sustainability Assessment of Technologies), EU 7 th FP Project, , Deliverables D 4.1 Literature Review on Social Indicators and Integrated Model of Indicator Selection; D 4.2 Preliminary Selection of Social Indicators; D 4.3 Final Selection of Social Indicators, all available from last access: July 2015 UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative (2009): Guidelines for social life cycle assessment of products, Authors: Andrews, E. S.; Barthel, L.-P.; Beck, T.; Benoit, C.; Ciroth, A.; Cucuzella, C.; Gensch, C.-O.; Hérbert, J.; Lesage, P.; Manhart, A.; Mazeau, P.; Mazijn, B.; Methot, A.-L.; Moberg, A.; Norris, G.; Parent, J.; Prakash, S.; Reveret, J.-P.; Spillemaeckers, S.; Ugaya, C. M. L.; Valdivia, S.; Weidema, B., online available at UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative (2013): Guidelines for social life cycle assessment of products. Methodological sheets, Authors: Aulisio, D.; Azuero, L.; Benoit, C.; Ciroth, A.; Franze, J.; Mazijn, B.; Traverso, M.; Valdivia, S.; Vickery-Niederman, G., online available at LCA_methodological_sheets_ pdf, last access: August 2015 Weidema, B.P., Wesnæs, M.S., Data quality management for life cycle inventories: an example of using data quality indicators. J. Clean. Prod. 4,

38 References Pictures of transition slides: Picture 1: last access: Picture 2: last access: