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Time-adjusted global warming potentials for LCA and carbon footprints

Name: Time-adjusted global warming potentials for LCA and carbon footprints
Creator: Alissa Kendall
Keywords: 02110801 Energy policy/Renewable energy commercialization/Renewable energy, 13. Climate action, 020209 energy, 0211 other engineering and technologies, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, 021108 energy, 02 engineering and technology, 7. Clean energy, 02020901 Energy policy/Renewable energy commercialization/Renewable energy

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Journal 09 May 2012Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, volume 17, pages 1,042-1,049 (issn: 0948-3349, eissn: 1614-7502,

Authors: Alissa Kendall;

doi: 10.1007/s11367-012-0436-5

Time-adjusted global warming potentials for LCA and carbon footprints

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Purpose The common practice of summing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and applying global warming potentials (GWPs) to calculate CO2 equivalents misrepresents the global warming effects of emissions that occur over a product or system’s life cycle at a particular time in the future. The two primary purposes of this work are to develop an approach to correct for this distortion that can (1) be feasibly implemented by life cycle assessment and carbon footprint practitioners and (2) results in units of CO2 equivalent. Units of CO2 equilavent allow for easy integration in current reporting and policy frameworks.

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