Using attributional life cycle assessment to estimate climate‐change mitigation benefits misleads policy makers

RJ Plevin, MA Delucchi… - Journal of Industrial …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Life cycle assessment (LCA) is generally described as a tool for environmental decision
making. Results from attributional LCA (ALCA), the most commonly used LCA method, often …

Global warming impact assessment of a crop residue gasification project—a dynamic LCA perspective

J Yang, B Chen - Applied energy, 2014 - Elsevier
Bioenergy from crop residues is one of the prevailing sustainable energy sources owing to
the abundant reserves worldwide. Amongst a wide variety of energy conversion …

Indirect land use change debate: what did we learn?

S Tokgoz, D Laborde - Current Sustainable/Renewable Energy Reports, 2014 - Springer
In recent years, many public policies and regulations have supported the biofuel expansion
in many countries. One of the main reasons for this support was concern about the …

Temporal differentiation of background systems in LCA: relevance of adding temporal information in LCI databases

A Pinsonnault, P Lesage, A Levasseur… - The International Journal …, 2014 - Springer
Purpose Because the potential impacts of emissions and extractions can be sensitive to
timing, the temporal aggregation of life cycle inventory (LCI) data has often been cited as a …

Modeling cumulative effects in life cycle assessment: The case of fertilizer in wheat production contributing to the global warming potential

B Laratte, B Guillaume, J Kim, B Birregah - Science of the Total …, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper aims at presenting a dynamic indicator for life cycle assessment (LCA)
measuring cumulative impacts over time of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from fertilizers …

Climate policy decisions require policy-based lifecycle analysis

AM Bento, R Klotz - Environmental science & technology, 2014 - ACS Publications
Lifecycle analysis (LCA) metrics of greenhouse gas emissions are increasingly being used
to select technologies supported by climate policy. However, LCAs typically evaluate the …

Time horizon and dominance in dynamic life cycle assessment

H Dyckhoff, T Kasah - Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Temporal aspects have traditionally not been recognized adequately in life cycle
assessment (LCA). The dynamic LCA model recently proposed offers a significant step …

Time-dependent climate impact of heat production from Swedish willow and poplar pellets–In a life cycle perspective

C Porsö, PA Hansson - Biomass and Bioenergy, 2014 - Elsevier
Sweden has the potential to increase fuel pellet production from alternative raw materials,
such as willow and poplar, and also to use former agricultural land for energy crop …

Effects of co‐produced biochar on life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of pyrolysis‐derived renewable fuels

Z Wang, JB Dunn, J Han… - Biofuels, Bioproducts and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Biochar is a co‐product from biomass pyrolysis that can sequester carbon when applied to
soils. It may also reduce N2O and CH4 emissions from soils, increase fertilizer efficiency …

[PDF][PDF] Valuing uncertainty part I: the impact of uncertainty in GHG accounting

E Marland, J Cantrell, K Kiser, G Marland… - Carbon …, 2014 - core.ac.uk
Background: It has become increasingly evident in the literature that a correlation needs to
be made between uncertainty in GHG emissions estimates and the value of emissions. That …