LCIA stands for “Life Cycle Impact Assessment” and represents the environmental impacts in the unit of that impact category. For example, the kg CO2e, MJ, kg phosphate equivalent, or cubic meters of water. The points, or score, are the normalization impacts and all impact scores are in the same common unit.
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