GX & Decarbonization Research

Peter-Paul Pichler, Ingram S Jaccard, Cathrin Zengerling +1

This repository provides code and data for analyzing how cities can govern their carbon footprints despite measurement challenges, based on climate planning in eight international anchor cities. It implements an EE-MRIO approach combining e…

Arshia Eslami, Mahsa Ardakani, Amin Roostaee +2

This paper analyzes the energy consumption and carbon emissions of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model inference for edge robotic systems. Evaluating π0.5, X-VLA, and SmolVLA on an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin, it reports task performance, latency…

Hrvoje Grofelnik, Mladen Jardas, Gorana Mudronja

This systematic review analyzes carbon footprint reduction strategies in container terminals, covering electrification, automation, digitalization, and AI-powered logistics. It highlights successful Asian port examples and calls for future …

Nidhi Pimple, Rutuja Salunke, Sugandha Jha, Aayush Sankhe

This review comprehensively outlines green pharmacy approaches for reducing the carbon footprint of pharmaceutical manufacturing. It discusses green chemistry, eco-friendly drug development, and sustainable production technologies (additive…

S. Gayam, I.O. Gordon, K.A. Smolen +10

This study comprehensively assesses the carbon footprint of routine endoscopic procedures in three US endoscopy units, quantifying Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions per procedure. It provides concrete emissions data to support decarbonization in …

Yuan Chai, Haytham F. Isleem, P Kumar +2

This paper proposes an AI-driven pipeline integrating IoT telemetry, ERP logs, and grid carbon intensity for near-real-time Scope 1-2 emission tracking. Using attention-based multimodal fusion, an ensemble of Transformer/CNN/BiLSTM, and mul…

P K Abhilash

This paper comprehensively examines carbon footprint analysis for infrastructure projects, covering methodologies, lifecycle impacts, and emission reduction opportunities. It highlights lifecycle assessment, sustainable construction, renewa…

Ana Beatriz Carollo Rocha Lima, Barny Wong

This paper examines why reducing radiology's carbon footprint remains outside clinical responsibility. It critically analyzes how environmental harm is treated as an externality of medical practice and not included in clinical accountabilit…

Liu Wan, Zhechong Luo, Xiao Lang

This study analyzes the relationship between industrial robot density and carbon emissions using a threshold model. It finds that robot adoption initially increases emissions but beyond a threshold reduces them due to efficiency gains, offe…

K.R.G. Lucas, A. Akter, R. Duong +2

Feeding dairy cows with grape pomace at 10% or 15% of diet reduced carbon footprint by 15.8% and 19.3%, respectively, along with similar reductions in water and soil impacts, without affecting milk production. This demonstrates a promising …

Lili Sun, Hongju Chen, Hetian Zhu +9

This paper proposes a novel allocation mechanism based on mass and energy balance for accurately attributing carbon footprint to petrochemical products. It addresses the challenge of fair allocation in complex petrochemical processes, there…

Kaiwen Zhao, Bharathan Balaji, Stephen Lee

This paper proposes an LLM-based question-answering framework to extract product carbon footprint information from PDF sustainability reports. It introduces CarbonPDF-QA, an open-source dataset of 1,735 reports with human-annotated Q&A pair…

Yang Zhou, Ran Wang, Xiyuan Li +1

This paper evaluates the carbon footprint of multinational enterprises in China and analyzes whether the source of foreign direct investment (FDI) matters. It reveals differences in environmental impact by FDI origin and provides policy imp…

Alina Ridderstad Nordberg, Greg Peters, Erik Klint +2

This study conducts a grave-to-gate carbon footprint assessment of monomer recycling for mixed synthetic textile waste. The results show that recycling emissions are 62-98% higher than the business-as-usual incineration, contradicting the a…

T. Y. Parnika, V. Anjaneyappa, M. R. Archana +2

This study evaluates embodied energy (EE), carbon footprint (CF), and pavement strain responses for different maintenance strategies on an 840 km highway network in India. Material production accounts for ~88% of EE and ~87% of CF. Preventi…

Ömer Eren, Halit Tutar, Muhammed İkbal Çatal +1

This three-year field study in semi-arid Turkey compared center pivot and sprinkler irrigation for silage maize. Center pivot increased dry matter yield by 1.48%, energy use efficiency by 16.89%, and reduced input-related carbon footprint b…

Debjani Das, Pritha Kumar, Prasanta Dandapath +7

This critical review examines carbon footprint assessment methodologies in the food industry, focusing on seafood. It discusses life cycle assessment and other approaches, highlighting challenges such as system boundaries, functional units,…

Meryem Şahin, Gülçin Akgören Palabıyık

This study evaluates the carbon footprint of greenhouse lavender seedling production using a life cycle approach. Total emissions were 265.32 kg CO2-eq per cycle (0.03 kg CO2-eq per seedling). Water and electricity dominated, highlighting t…

Thomas Bøker Lund, Mette Weinreich Hansen, Clara G. Bouyssou +2

This paper presents a multilevel framework modeling cognitive and emotional dimensions of readiness and resistance to sustainable changes in organizations. Using multilevel latent class analysis of 62 Danish organizations' workplace lunches…

Antônio Carlos Reis de Freitas, Roberto Giolo de Almeida, M L R Macedo +8

This study evaluates the carbon footprint of beef production in integrated crop-livestock-forest (ICLF) systems in the Brazilian Cerrado using the Manure-DNDC model. Results show negative emission intensity for ICLF systems, indicating that…