Discounting and life cycle assessment: a distorting measure in assessments, a reasonable instrument for decisions

S Lueddeckens, P Saling, E Guenther - International Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Although the weighting of environmental impacts against each other is well established in
life cycle assessment practice, the weighting of impacts occurring at different points in time is …

Life-cycle assessment of climate change impact on time-dependent carbon-footprint of asphalt pavement

X Chen, H Wang, R Horton, J DeFlorio - Transportation Research Part D …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study aims to quantify life-cycle carbon footprint of asphalt pavement due to warming
temperatures under climate change scenario. Pavement Mechanistic-Empirical (ME) Design …

Dynamic life cycle assessment: a review of research for temporal variations in life cycle assessment studies

S Su, X Li, C Zhu, Y Lu, HW Lee - Environmental Engineering …, 2021 - liebertpub.com
Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a comprehensive and important environmental management
tool around the world. However, lacking temporal information has been a major challenge …

Opportunities and challenges for engineering construction materials as carbon sinks

SA Miller, E Van Roijen, P Cunningham… - RILEM Technical Letters, 2021 - par.nsf.gov
Population growth and urbanization over the coming decades are anticipated to drive
unprecedented demand for infrastructure materials and energy resources. Unfortunately …

Effects of greenhouse gas emissions timing on alternative biomass and fossil energy sources for district heating

S Kar, P Billen, L Björnebo, B Katz, S Yang… - GCB …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
District heating (DH) systems can improve energy efficiency, reduce greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions, and be a cost‐effective residential space heating alternative over conventional …

Time-dependent climate impact of utilizing residual biomass for biofuels—The combined influence of modelling choices and climate impact metrics

J Olofsson - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
Understanding the influence of method choices on results in life-cycle assessments is
essential to draw informed conclusions. As the climate impact of bioenergy remains a …

Life cycle impact assessment

SM Jordaan, SM Jordaan - Wells to Wire: Life Cycle Assessment of …, 2021 - Springer
Across impact categories, electricity generated from natural gas faces many of the same
challenges as other product systems in life cycle assessment (LCA): data. Due to the high …

Life-cycle assessment of roadway pavements for the adaptation and mitigation of climate change impacts

X Chen - 2021 - rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu
Porous pavement is one of the green infrastructures that reduce the negative environmental
impact from storm water runoff in the urban area. In natural process, the rainfall will soak into …

[PDF][PDF] D1. 1 Working paper on the numerical modelling framework to compare different accounting schemes

PD Level, M Paschen, F Meier, W Rickels - academia.edu
Any integration of extra carbon dioxide removal (CDR) via terrestrial or marine sink
enhancement into climate policies requires accounting for their effectiveness in reducing …

[PDF][PDF] KIEL

M Paschen, F Meier, W Rickels - ifw-kiel.de
Any integration of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) via enhancement of terrestrial or marine
sinks into climate policy requires accounting for the provided climate benefits. We discuss …