Synopsis: NEC had started LCA-Study in 1993 and constructed its own LCA-system with LCI database in 1997. In this period, we have been carrying out a lot of LCA studies and completed LCA for all NEC productgroups, which have about 80 categories, by 2001. And also, we have developed the LCA-Tool called "Jemai-LCA" , which is the first LCA Software in Japan. Since 1998, NEC began the LCA studies for services, software and systems which consisted of software and hardware. Through these studies, we

more »

... established the methodology for Environmental assessment of IT-Solutions. NEC is trying to expand our LCA methodology and database to other applications for environmental evaluation of management activities, such as Environmental Management Indicators, Business-activities and Social-activities. We can have good effectiveness in such applications from results of these LCA studies.