GX & Decarbonization Research

Julie Kriegh, Chris Magwood, Wil V. Srubar

The Carbon Leadership Forum at the University of Washington, in collaboration with a major US tech company, investigated low-carbon and carbon-storing materials for light industrial buildings. Focusing on carbon-intensive materials like con…

Jiaxing Li

This review synthesizes multiple LCA studies on bottled water's life cycle carbon emissions, identifying key hotspots such as PET resin production, bottle manufacturing, transportation, and electricity use. It evaluates reduction measures l…

Zepeng Wang, Jialin Li, Kexin Zhang

This study examines the impact of carbon emission disclosure quality on corporate default risk using a sample of Chinese A-share listed firms from 2013 to 2022. Higher disclosure quality is significantly associated with lower default risk, …

Institute of Environmental Sciences Leiden University, Rick Hagenaars

This study proposes a hybrid LCA framework for assessing drug-level carbon footprints under data constraints, applied to narrower-spectrum penicillin. Using the ICO-2023 EE-MRIO, it provides global and country-specific carbon footprints, co…

Anirban Akhand, Inés Mazarrasa, Stacey M. Trevathan‐Tackett +10

A review of 102 studies finds that 56±25% of soil organic carbon in blue carbon ecosystems is allochthonous particulate organic carbon (POC). Including it in carbon accounting risks overestimation and double-counting, but its role in stabil…

Miller, Gregory J., Rouille d'Orfeuil, Benjamin, Shi, Wenbo

The Open Grid Emissions Initiative provides publicly accessible hourly grid emissions data for the U.S., built on EPA's eGRID with improved data quality and granularity. The 2025 early release includes plant and subplant-level data only, wi…

Samuel Ayeni, Abubakar Halidu, Chichebe Victoria Maurice Uwanaka +4

Decarbonizing construction requires whole-life carbon accounting beyond operational energy. This critical review interrogates evidence for sustainable materials and circular strategies, finding that claimed benefits often rely on lab-scale …

Rick Hagenaars, Arjan de Koning, Reinout Heijungs +2

Drug-level carbon footprints vary significantly across countries, but data scarcity hinders estimation. This paper develops a hybrid LCA framework combining drug-level inventories with international trade statistics and uncertainty assessme…

Nadia Cerone, Luca Contuzzi, Giuseppe Domenico Zito +3

This study conducts a cradle-to-grave Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of biochar produced from agricultural wood waste via pyro-gasification. Comparing a basic scenario with one that recovers heat, the authors find a Global Warming Potential (G…

Carles Vergara-Alert, Alex Melendez-Ramos

This study exploits the June 2022 methodology revision for non-domestic EPCs in England and Wales as a natural experiment, showing that grid decarbonisation can improve carbon-weighted ratings without building improvements. 80.5% of reasses…

Yating Zhang, Dustin T. Cook, S. Sattar +3

This paper proposes a hybrid method combining unit process analysis and economic input-output analysis to quantify embodied carbon emissions from post-earthquake building repair and functional loss. It accounts for repair materials, transpo…

HaoMing Chen, XiaoHong Wang, Zunli Dai +2

Using EORA MRIO and LMDI, this study analyzes China's trade-embodied carbon emissions (2010-2020). Production-side carbon intensity declined but the electricity, gas, and water sector shows high-carbon lock-in. China remains a net exporter,…

Robert S. Kaplan, Karthik Ramanna

This paper details the accounting infrastructure for E-ledgers, a system for real-time, verifiable carbon accounting. It specifies journal entries for E-liabilities and E-assets, explains inter-entity articulation, and aggregation into a ge…

Dima Farra, Nicolaj Ingemann Nielsen, You Chang +5

This review analyzes factors affecting comparability of farm-level GHG estimates in dairy systems. Based on 91 studies, it finds that variation stems mainly from system boundaries, functional units, allocation procedures, upstream coverage,…

B. Jiang, Xingji Jin, Timo Pukkala +1

Ignoring CO2 from decomposing harvest residues, dead organic matter, and discarded wood products overestimates carbon sequestration, especially in young plantations. This study developed models for these pools and integrated them into simul…

Xiangyu Zheng, Menglan Xiao, Jianming Zhu +5

This study evaluates 32 waste-to-chemical pathways integrating thermochemical and electrochemical conversions for wastewater treatment plants. Sequential coupling with formate production achieves up to ~35% emission reduction. Experimental …

Hao Qin

This package provides data and Python code for a comparative carbon footprint assessment of a 72.5 kWh NCM622 automotive battery under three frameworks: EU delegated act draft, GBA Battery Passport, and QC/T 1247—2025. It includes harmonize…

Ana Julieth Calderón Márquez, Beatrice Smyth, Dan A Smale +2

This review evaluates 16 empirical studies on European wild seaweed ecosystems against three criteria: permanence, MRV feasibility, and net climate benefit. It finds no evidence meets policy-grade accounting standards, supporting a precauti…

Ascione, Fabio, Bruckner, Benedikt, Theresa, Pudzich +1

This compendium provides R code and data to calculate GHG emissions for the German tourism sector using three approaches: firm-level surveys, EE-MRIO consumption footprints, and production-based national statistics. It enables Scope 1 and 2…

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This paper assesses the suitability of current evidence on European wild seaweed ecosystems for blue carbon accounting. It evaluates the carbon sequestration potential of seaweed and the adequacy of existing accounting methods, aiming to cl…