The 6th International Conference on Life Cycle Management in Gothenburg 2013 DEVELOPMENT GLOBAL DAMAGE FACTORS OF RESOURCE CONSUMPTION Takeshi Matsuda 1 *, Ryota Ii 1 and Norihiro Itubo 2 1 Pacific consultants Co.,LTD. 2 Tokyo City University *1-7-5, Sekido, Tama-shi, Tokyo, Japan. takeshi.matsuda@ss.pacific.co.jp Keywords: Mineral resource; Damage function; Impact assessment; Biodiversity; Fossil fuel ABSTRACT Resource consumption causes destruction of nature by mining and economic damage by resource depletion. To evaluate these damage, we need Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) indicators. In this study, we developed grovel LCIA damage factor of resource - consumption. We evaluated damage of biodiversity, primary production and human economy. By using some static data, we made damage factor of resources extracted in each country. Then, by using international trade data, we made damage factors of resources consumed in each country. This method will contribute to LCIA of resource consumption around the world. INTRODUCTION Resource consumption causes destruction of nature by mining and economic damage by resource depletion. Also integration and comparison these damage with other environmental damage are highly concerned. To evaluate these damage, we need Life cycle Impact assessment (LCIA) indicator. Though some methods are proposed(Watando, 2012, Vieira, 2012), no method contains both environmental and economic damage. In Japan, previous study developed damage factors for Japanese resource consumption. This result was published as part of LIME2 (Itsubo and Inaba, 2010). In this study, we expanded geographical boundary to the world and recalculated damage factors for many resources extracted in each country. We evaluate three impact category related to resource consumption, “Social assets”, “Net Primary production (NPP)” and “Expected Increase in Number of Extinct Species (EINES)”. Additonaly, by using international trade data, we made damage factors for resources consumed in each country. However, we introduced only damage factors of each extracting countries because of space limitation. METHODS Characterization factor of resource depression The framework of evaluation was shown in Fig.1. We chose “inverse of reserve (1/R)” as characterization factor(midpoint) which directly refer to the resource depletion. We used the