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The Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (BAFU) publishes the BAFU LCA database, the reference life cycle inventory database for Switzerland.

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BAFU 2026 v1

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Description	The Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (BAFU) publishes the BAFU LCA database, the reference life cycle inventory database for Switzerland.
Source type	Governmental
Original dataset URL	URL
Year released	2026
Geography	Multiple regions
Sector	Agriculture/Hunting/Forestry/Fishing Buildings and Infrastructure Consumer Goods and Services Energy Equipment Information and Communication Materials and Manufacturing Transport Waste Water
Type of data	Activity-based
Emission results	CO2e
Data Transformation	NA

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Type of license	BAFU Terms of Use

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Data quality assurance	Vetted by Climatiq. For further information on data quality assurance, see: https://www.climatiq.io/methodology#Data-Quality
Quality flag(s)	NA

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IPCC AR method	AR6
LCA boundary	cradle_to_consumer-end_of_life cradle_to_gate cradle_to_grave end_of_life fuel_combustion-infrastructure fuel_upstream-transmission_and_distribution infrastructure-operational_energy_use manufacturing packaging processing source_specific transmission_and_distribution transport upstream-end_of_life use_phase
Scope applicability	1 2 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.9 3.12
Emissions breakdown	Biogenic (CO2e, AR6) Fossil (CO2e, AR6) Land use change (CO2e, AR6) Total (CO2e, AR6)
Methodology description	The BAFU LCA database is the life cycle inventory database of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment, developed according to BAFU's LCI Data Quality Requirements. Climatiq publishes the climate change indicator from the BAFU 2026 v1 release with its breakdown into fossil, biogenic and land use emissions. Biogenic CO2 uptake and release are not counted (neutral approach); the biogenic component covers other biogenic greenhouse gases such as biogenic methane.
Limitation / key issues to note	The following are not included: Datasets that originate from ecoinvent, due to ecoinvent licensing restrictions. Datasets the source marks as obsolete (activity names starting with “xx”).

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