Recent developments in life cycle assessment

G Finnveden, MZ Hauschild, T Ekvall, J Guinée… - Journal of environmental …, 2009 - Elsevier
Life Cycle Assessment is a tool to assess the environmental impacts and resources used
throughout a product's life cycle, ie, from raw material acquisition, via production and use …

Identification of parameters for embodied energy measurement: A literature review

MK Dixit, JL Fernández-Solís, S Lavy, CH Culp - Energy and buildings, 2010 - Elsevier
The building construction industry consumes a large amount of resources and energy and,
owing to current global population growth trends, this situation is projected to deteriorate in …

ReCiPe2016: a harmonised life cycle impact assessment method at midpoint and endpoint level

MAJ Huijbregts, ZJN Steinmann, PMF Elshout… - … International Journal of …, 2017 - Springer
Purpose Life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) translates emissions and resource extractions
into a limited number of environmental impact scores by means of so-called characterisation …

Blockchain practices, potentials, and perspectives in greening supply chains

M Kouhizadeh, J Sarkis - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
Blockchain technology is an inchoate technology whose current popularity is peaking. Some
of the most pervasive blockchain technology use cases exist for supply chains. Sustainable …

ReCiPe 2016: a harmonized life cycle impact assessment method at midpoint and endpoint level report I: characterization

MAJ Huijbregts, ZJN Steinmann, PMF Elshout, G Stam… - 2016 - rivm.openrepository.com
Life cycle assessment (LCA) enables the assessment of the pressure a certain (production)
process places on the environment. The assessment comprises all phases needed to …

Sustainability footprints of a renewable carbon transition for the petrochemical sector within planetary boundaries

Á Galán-Martín, V Tulus, I Diaz, C Pozo… - One Earth, 2021 - cell.com
The petrochemical sector will play a crucial role in develo** low-carbon transition
technologies, but the industry also contributes a significant proportion of greenhouse gas …

A guideline for life cycle assessment of carbon capture and utilization

LJ Müller, A Kätelhön, M Bachmann… - Frontiers in Energy …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) is an emerging field proposed for emissions
mitigation and even negative emissions. These potential benefits need to be assessed by …

Comparative economic and life cycle assessment of solar-based hydrogen production for oil and gas industries

S Sadeghi, S Ghandehariun, MA Rosen - Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Hydrogen is used in the petroleum industry to upgrade crude oil in refineries or as a
chemical agent to produce ammonia, methanol and other products. It is mainly supplied by …

[HTML][HTML] Tackling uncertainty in life cycle assessments for the built environment: A review

E Marsh, S Allen, L Hattam - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
A bstract The building and construction sectors contribute around 38% of global energy-
related carbon emissions. LCA plays an important role in environmental assessments of …

Delaying carbon dioxide removal in the European Union puts climate targets at risk

Á Galán-Martín, D Vázquez, S Cobo… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) will be essential to meet the climate targets, so enabling its
deployment at the right time will be decisive. Here, we investigate the still poorly understood …