Appendix DTables of Environmental Impact Potentials

Table D-1 Global Warming Potentials for Greenhouse Gases (CO2 is the benchmark).

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Table D-2 Ozone-Depletion Potentials for Several Industrially Important Compounds.

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Table D-3 Acid Rain Potential for a Number of Acidifying Chemicals.

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Adapted from Heijungs et al., 1992

Table D-4 Maximum Incremental Reactivities (MIR) for Smog Formation (O3).

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