Application and refinement of territorial Life Cycle Assessment to the calculation of the carbon footprint and the normalization factors of Galicia

Abstract

This thesis is based on the application of territorial Life Cycle Assessment to Galicia, with the objective of determining the impacts of all the consumption and production activities that take place in the region. To this end, several inventories of individual products consumed or produced in the area have been obtained, and then combined according to the territorial LCA methodology, thus obtaining global inventories of all Galician activities. The carbon footprint and the normalization factors of all the activities in the region have been calculated from those inventories, in the first application of the territorial LCA approach to calculate normalization references, and also the first calculation of those references at the subnational level.