Substitution impacts of wood use at the market level: a systematic review

E Hurmekoski, CE Smyth, T Stern… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
There is strong evidence that wood-based products are typically associated with lower fossil-
based emissions over their lifecycle than functionally equivalent products made from other …

Temporal issues in life cycle assessment—a systematic review

S Lueddeckens, P Saling, E Guenther - The International Journal of Life …, 2020 - Springer
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 …

On quantifying sources of uncertainty in the carbon footprint of biofuels: crop/feedstock, LCA modelling approach, land-use change, and GHG metrics

M Brandão, R Heijungs, AR Cowie - Biofuel Research Journal, 2022 - biofueljournal.com
Biofuel systems may represent a promising strategy to combat climate change by replacing
fossil fuels in electricity generation and transportation. First-generation biofuels from sugar …

Attributional & consequential life cycle assessment: definitions, conceptual characteristics and modelling restrictions

T Schaubroeck, S Schaubroeck, R Heijungs… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
To assess the potential environmental impact of human/industrial systems, life cycle
assessment (LCA) is a very common method. There are two prominent types of LCA, namely …

Consumption-based greenhouse gas emissions accounting with capital stock change highlights dynamics of fast-developing countries

ZM Chen, S Ohshita, M Lenzen, T Wiedmann… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Traditional consumption-based greenhouse gas emissions accounting attributed the gap
between consumption-based and production-based emissions to international trade. Yet few …

Exploring the climate impact effects of increased use of bio-based materials in buildings

D Peñaloza, M Erlandsson, A Falk - Construction and Building Materials, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Whenever Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is used to assess the climate impact of
buildings, those with high content of biobased materials result with the lowest impact …

Biowaste-to-Biomethane: An LCA study on biogas and syngas roads

F Ardolino, U Arena - Waste Management, 2019 - Elsevier
Biomethane produced from waste-derived biomass (biowaste) is a clean and renewable
fuel, which offers substantial reductions of greenhouse gas emissions and resource …

[HTML][HTML] The quest for sustainable forest bioenergy: win-win solutions for climate and biodiversity

J Giuntoli, JI Barredo, V Avitabile, A Camia… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
The debate on forest bioenergy sustainability has been so far dominated by assessments
made through the carbon emissions lens. The biodiversity perspective has been largely …

Climate Change Mitigation Challenge for Wood Utilization The Case of Finland

S Soimakallio, L Saikku, L Valsta… - Environmental science & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The urgent need to mitigate climate change invokes both opportunities and challenges for
forest biomass utilization. Fossil fuels can be substituted by using wood products in place of …

[HTML][HTML] To separate or not? A comparison of wastewater management systems for the new city district of Hiedanranta, Finland

S Lehtoranta, R Malila, M Särkilahti, EL Viskari - Environmental Research, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle costing (LCC) methods were applied
for the new city district of Hiedanranta, where source-separating sanitation systems are …