categoryThe description of the impact category used is a follows

• Acidification
  Impact category addressing impacts due to acififying substances in the environment. This process of amissions leds to the decline of forests and acidification of lakes.
• Climate change
  Category referring to the increase in global average temperatures due to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This category is assessed on the basis of current IPCC characterisation factors for a 100-year time horizon.
• Ecotoxicity
  Category addressing toxic effects on an ecosystem. This is caused by the release of substances with a direct effect on the health of the ecosystem.
• Eutrophication
  Category addressing effects due to substances containing nitrogen or phosphorus. Nitrogen emissions are mainly due to fertilizers used in agriculture and combustion processed. Phosphorus emissions are mainly due to urban and industrial effluent treatment plants. These substances contribute to the eutrophication of freshwater which is converted into kilograms of phosphorus equivalent (kg P eq).
• Human carcinogenic toxicity
  Category referring to adverse effects on human health caused by toxic substances. These effects are related to cancer.
• Non-carcinogenic human toxicity
  Category referring to adverse effects on human health caused by toxic substances. These effects are not carcinogenic.
• Particulate matter (mobility)
  Impact category that measures the effects on human health caused by emissions of particulate matter (PM). The smaller the particles, the more dangerous they are a they can enter the lungs. The potential impact is measured as the change in mortality due to PM emissions, expressed as incidence of disease per kg PM2 emitted.
• Fossil resource use
  Impact category that considers that the earth has a finite amount of non-renewable resoruces, conditioning future generations to extract less of these resoruces.
• Use of mineral resources and metals
  Category hat considers that the earth has a finite amount of resources and that the extraction of these resoruces will condition future generations. The amount of materials contributing to resource depletion is converted into kilogram antimony equivalents (kg Sb eq).