Researchers at Columbia Engineering have developed new software that can simultaneously calculate the carbon footprints of thousands of products.
The team used a life-cycle-analysis (LCA) tool and developed three new techniques that work in concert, enabling them to calculate thousands of footprints within minutes and with minimal manual user input. The key component in the Columbia Engineering methodology is the design of a predictive model that generates estimated emission factors (EFs) for materials, thereby eliminating the manual mapping of a product’s ingredients and packaging materials to commercial LCA databases.
The automated information can help companies speed up their assessments of the impact of reduction strategies.
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