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Open LCA database
for Morocco and Africa

LCADB collaboratively documents the continent's real processes: emission factors by sector, geography and year. Scientific, open, sovereign.

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Industry in Africa
African industries
Documenting real processes,
calculating footprints with precision
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Published processes
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Under review
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Contributors
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Sectors covered
Mission

LCA data representative
of the African continent

Dominant LCA databases (Ecoinvent, GaBi) poorly describe African realities. LCADB fills this gap with data from primary African sources: PSD MTEDD, OCP reports, scientific publications, field data.

Every process is sourced, cryptographically signed (SHA-256), versioned, and published under CC-BY-SA 4.0 licence. Validation goes through a transparent community workflow.

LCADB feeds the LCA calculations of ClimateOps to produce environmental footprints representative of African industries.

Taxonomy

Nine sectors covered

Four-level organisation inspired by ADEME standards and adapted to the African context.

30 target processes
Energy
Electricity mix, fuels, renewables, desalination
17 target processes
Transport
Road, rail, maritime, aviation, infrastructure
60 target processes
Agriculture
Crops, livestock, oilseeds, inputs, land use
40 target processes
Industry
Cement, steel, phosphates, chemicals, automotive, textile
9 target processes
Buildings
Construction, renovation, equipment, insulation
13 target processes
Waste & water
Waste management, recycling, drinking water, wastewater
12 target processes
Fisheries
Coastal fishing, deep-sea fishing, aquaculture, processing
20 target processes
Agri-food
Dairy, meat, cereals, sugar, beverages, condiments
10 target processes
Services
Digital, hospitality, health, finance, education
Governance

A model inspired by open source

Every contribution follows a transparent workflow: submission, public review, validation by an elected sectoral maintainer.

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Submission
Proposal with verifiable documentary sources
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Auto check
Consistency, sources, duplicates verified automatically
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Public review
14 to 30 days of open community examination
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Decision
Elected sectoral maintainer rules with justification
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Publication
Immutable SHA-256 signature, CC-BY-SA 4.0 licence
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Three entry points

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processes
Published processes
Emission factors validated by the community, SHA-256 signed, usable without restriction.
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under review
Contributions under review
Processes undergoing community validation. Based on PSD MTEDD sources and other institutions.
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document
LCADB Manifesto
Vision, founding principles, distributed governance, licences and contribution rules.
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Ecosystem

LCADB is part of OCKA

OCKA (Open Climate Knowledge Africa) federates climate knowledge bases built from Africa. LCADB is the first component published. More will follow.

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