Regioinvent v1.1.4

Just changed the name of "global production markets" to global export markets" as the data used only covers export data and not domestic production data.

Regioinvent v1.1.3

Corrected mistake in regionalization of irrigation technosphere inputs for commodities using the technosphere inputs "market group for irrigation".

Changed terminology from biosphere_regionalized to biosphere_spatialized.

Regioinvent 1.1.2

Corrected problem where RoW geography was missing in impact categories such as land and acidification/eutrophication. It resulted in a null characterization factor instead of a global factor.

Regioinvent v1.1.1

Correction of mistakes in mapping of land regionalized flows with their characterization factors.

Regioinvent v1.1

New

Water processes were created to fix the water unbalance created from regionalizing and from the base ecoinvent database. The issue at hand was that, e.g., the production of apple in Chile was using an RoW irrigation, and so was using "RoW" water and not Chilian water, hence the unbalance.

In addition, these created water processes were regionalized (electricity, heat and waste inputs)

Finally, the data from the UN COMTRADE was refined to correct blatant mistakes and unit issues. The format of the file changed and the code was adapted to it.

v1.0.1

New

Ecoinvent processes are now relinked to created regioinvent processes.
For instance, the production of electricity from hard coal in Canada now uses the consumption market of hard coal in Canada as an input.

v1.0

Supported features:

• Regionalization of key inputs: electricity, solid waste management, heat
• Regionalization of elementary flows pertaining to the following broad impact categories: water use, land use, acidification/eutrophication
• Automatically creates a regionalized biosphere3 version, an only-elementary-flow-regionalized version of ecoinvent and automatically imports the regionalized version of the IMPACT World+ LCIA methodology
• Domestic consumption estimated through EXIOBASE
• Cut-off for importing/exporting countries represented in the final regioinvent database set to 95% (99% makes AB bug)

Non-implemented features:

• Regionalization of non-traded goods (e.g., a building) and of services (e.g., baling or hot rolling of steel)
• Tailored transportation for production/consumption markets (taking the original distribution of ecoinvent)
• Specific shares for import/export per technology of production (taking the original distribution of ecoinvent)