There is currently a shift from petrochemical to bio-based plastics (bioplastics). The
application of comprehensive and appropriately designed LCA studies are imperative to …

Reliable and sustainable energy supply is critical to effective natural resource management,
and it encompasses functioning efficiency of energy resources as well as socio-economic …

Nature-based climate solutions can contribute to climate mitigation, but the vulnerability of
land carbon to disturbances means that efforts to slow or reverse land carbon loss could …

The lack of temporal information is an important limitation of life cycle assessment (LCA). A
dynamic LCA approach is proposed to improve the accuracy of LCA by addressing the …

Purpose Biological sequestration can increase the carbon stocks of non-atmospheric
reservoirs (eg land and land-based products). Since this contained carbon is sequestered …

Silver bullet or fools’ gold? Page 1 Natasha Landell-Mills and Ina T. Porras March 2002 A
research report prepared by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) …

A growing tendency in policy making and carbon footprint estimation gives value to
temporary carbon storage in biomass products or to delayed greenhouse gas (GHG) …

Purpose Case studies on life cycle assessments frequently admit that the precision of their
outcome could be undermined due to temporal issues, though they usually refrain from …

It is unclear how much carbon should be stored in temporary and risky offsets to compensate
one ton of CO2 emissions. Here we cast the social value of an offset (SVO), measured in …

Efforts to avert dangerous climate change by conserving and restoring natural habitats are
hampered by concerns over the credibility of methods used to quantify their long-term …