TY - JOUR AB - This study assesses the direct and indirect environmental impacts to be expected if Switzerland should replace one percent of its current diesel consumption with imports of A) soybean methyl ester (SME) from Brazil, or B) palm methyl ester (PME) from Malaysia. In order to take into account possible future consequences, what-if scenarios were developed and assessed by means of a consequential LCA. In contrast to attributional LCA, the consequential approach uses system enlargement to include the marginal products affected by a change of the physical flows in the central life cycle. This means that the LCA considers all inputs and outputs which are linked to biodiesel production and that the product system is subsequently expanded to include the marginal products affected. Both future systems are assessed in comparison with the environmental scores of the fossil equivalent to biodiesel, i.e. diesel low in sulphur. The environmental burdens are measured by means of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), land occupation and various non-aggregated and aggregated environmental impact indicators. AD - EMPA, Technol & Soc Lab, LCAM, CH-8600 Dubendorf, Switzerland AN - WOS:000271836800007 AU - Reinhard, J. AU - Zah, R. DO - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2009.05.003 J2 - J Clean Prod KW - lca LA - English N1 - Suppl. 1 Sp. Iss. SI PY - 2009 SN - 0959-6526 SP - S46-S56 ST - Global environmental consequences of increased biodiesel consumption in Switzerland: consequential life cycle assessment T2 - Journal of Cleaner Production TI - Global environmental consequences of increased biodiesel consumption in Switzerland: consequential life cycle assessment UR - ://WOS:000271836800007 VL - 17 ID - 5048 ER -