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Hybrid life-cycle assessment for robust, best-practice carbon accounting

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Kennelly, C., Berners-Lee, M., Hewitt, C.N.·2019·Journal of Cleaner Production

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  • Published emission factors can be applied to provide average emissions for attributable processes, enabling detailed analysis with high specificity and allowing comparison between items from the same sector.

    “Published emission factors can be applied, which provide average emissions for given attributable processes (for example electricity consumption, transportation, and production of a given material).This enables detailed analysis with high specificity, allowing comparison between items from the same sector.(20)”

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    Section 2.2 describes process-based carbon accounting as an itemised estimate of emissions at each step of a product’s life cycle, supporting the detailed-analysis part of the claim. Section 4.1 also discusses calculated emission factors. The passages do not establish that applying published average factors provides high specificity or enables comparisons between items within the same sector; those parts are unsupported by our copy. (LLM, conf=0.79)

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Authors
Kennelly, C., Berners-Lee, M., & Hewitt, C. N.
Affiliations
Lancaster University (GB)
Corresponding author
Berners-Lee, M.
Venue
Journal of Cleaner Production
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2019-01
Volume
208
Pages
35-43
ISSN
0959-6526 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2894057353
Cited by
57
References
43
Citations by year
2026: 11 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 3
FWCI
1.38
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Cleaner Production (publishedVersion)
  • Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University) (acceptedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Sustainable Supply Chain Management
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
Keywords
carbon accounting, hybrid life cycle assessment, system boundaries, input-output model, mechanistic model, supply chain emissions, greenhouse gas emissions, copper wire, truncation error

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