Carbon Footprint: Definition and Calculation Method
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What is the carbon footprint? How to calculate it? What are the solutions to reduce it? How can we have an impact on positive climate change? The answers in this article.
What is a life cycle assessment ?
The Life Cycle Assessment is a procedure for measuring the environmental impact of a product or service throughout its entire life cycle.
What’s included in the LCA?
In addition to a carbon footprint report, the LCA framework provides a more comprehensive way of measuring the carbon footprint of goods and products. The LCA includes the whole scope of the product’s environmental impact, by measuring the total of:
- The emissions from the raw material extraction process,
- The transportation and packaging of the product and the associated emissions,
- The emissions associated with its end-of-life disposal process, including recycling or reuse.
The LCA is an important tool for assessing the entire scope of environmental damage caused by a product or service.
For more info, check out Greenly’s blog article on “How to conduct a useful life cycle assessment”
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