Characterization Factors to Assess Land Use Impacts on Pollinator Abundance in Life Cycle Assessment.

ABSTRACT: While wild pollinators play a key role in global food production, their assessment is currently missing from the most commonly used environmental impact assessment method, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). This is mainly due to constraints in data availability and compatibility with LCA inventories. To target this gap, relative pollinator abundance estimates were obtained with the use of a Delphi assessment, during which 25 experts, covering 16 nationalities and 45 countries of expertise, provided scores for low, typical, and high expected abundance associated with 24 land use categories. Based on these estimates, this study presents a set of globally generic characterization factors (CFs) that allows translating land use into relative impacts to wild pollinator abundance. The associated uncert

SUBMITTER: Alejandre EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9979645 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature