IDEA (Inventory Database of for Environmental Analysis) is a Japanese database that comprehensively covers nearly all of the economic activities of the Japanese business. It contains about 3800 of processes that were grounded along with the Japan Standard Commodity Classification. IDEA covers the major impact categories with more than 180 of elementary flows. The impact categories include global warming, acidification, ozone depletion, mineral, fossil resources, water resources, and land use. In SimaPro it is provided as a group of interlinked unit processes.

You can learn more about IDEA and request sample data at http://idea-lca.jp/?lang=en.

Sectors covered by IDEA 2 database.