Climate effects
Climate effects refer to environmental impacts, including:
• Greenhouse gas emissions: Global warming potential, climate change (total, fossil, biogenic, land use).
• Ecotoxicity: Aquatic ecotoxicity (freshwater, marine), terrestrial ecotoxicity, eco-toxicity (freshwater).
• Human toxicity: Carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic effects, ionizing radiation.
• Acidification and eutrophication: Acidification, eutrophication (freshwater, marine, terrestrial).
• Ozone and photochemical effects: Ozone depletion, photochemical ozone formation.
• Resource use: Depletion of abiotic resources (fossil fuels, minerals/metals), water use, land use.
• Other effects: Particulate matter emissions, soil quality impacts.
These categories provide a framework for quantifying environmental performance and circularity in buildings and assets.
Climate effects can be linked to standard building parts to store circularity indexes for each climate effect. See
Linking climate effects to standard building parts.