GX & Decarbonization Research

Nobutaka Odake, Anshuman Khare

This paper addresses the business aspects of carbon footprint (CFP) assessment in the context of carbon neutrality. It likely discusses practical implementation, market opportunities, and integration into corporate strategy. Details are unc…

Petra Zsuzsa Lévay, Josefine Vanhille, Tim Goedemé +1

This study combines Belgian household consumption data with an environmentally extended input-output model to quantify the relationship between household carbon footprints and socio-economic characteristics. It finds that lower-income house…

Dongmei Tang

This dataset provides a global, gridded product of consumption-based deforestation carbon emissions for seven major countries (CHN, DEU, FRA, GBR, JPN, KOR, USA) from 2001 to 2020 at ~1 km resolution. It integrates MRIO trade statistics wit…

Qiansi Tu, Chengjie Wu, Dianjun Fang +4

This paper proposes a cradle-to-gate Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) calculation method using trusted data space technology to address fragmented data and cross-organizational exchange challenges. It designs a credible PCF exchange architect…

Jacob Fry, Angie Bone, Keiichiro Kanemoto +2

Healthcare systems contribute 4-5% of global GHG emissions, largely from supply chains. This primer introduces environmental footprinting methods (LCA, EE-IOA, hybrid) for healthcare, emphasizing system boundaries and indirect emissions. It…

Alessandro Flammini, Hanif Adzmir, Kevin Karl +1

This study quantifies GHG emissions from non-renewable woodfuel harvesting for residential use, estimating 745 Mt CO2eq in 2019, a 6% increase from 1990. Regional trends show increases in Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Asia, and Latin America…

Jemyung Lee, Yosuke Shigetomi, Keiichiro Kanemoto

This study estimates household carbon footprints for 83 macro-regions across 27 EU countries for 2010 and 2015, using multi-regional input-output tables and micro-consumption data. Structural decomposition analysis identifies five driving f…

Jozef Čapla, Peter Zajác, Jozef Čurlej +1

This review examines carbon footprint quantification methods (GHG Protocol, ISO, LCA) in the agri-food industry, using a wheat-to-bread case study. It identifies challenges like data gaps, standardization issues, and SME financial constrain…

Thomas Lützkendorf, Maria Balouktsi

This paper explains the significance of embodied carbon in buildings, noting it can represent about 50% of life-cycle carbon in new energy-efficient buildings. It reviews methods, data, tools, and benchmarks for assessing and reducing embod…

Clara Lenk, Rosalie Arendt, Vanessa Bach +1

This study applies and compares territorial-based and consumption-based carbon footprint methods for the Berlin-Wedding district. Results were nearly identical (about 400,000 t CO2-eq), not supporting the hypothesis that consumption-based f…

Aaron Taylor, Stephanie Au, Barbora Krivankova +2

This study quantifies the carbon footprint of laparoscopic right hemicolectomy (LRH) in a single hospital, analyzing four cases. Mean emissions were 22.81 kgCO2e per case, with single-use consumables manufacturing contributing 54%. It highl…

Jan Niklas Buescher, Victoria Pohl, Daniel Ditterich +6

This paper explores how data space-based condition monitoring can enhance circular economy strategies and sustainability in industrial production, using the RIF Cyber Physical Brewhouse as a case study. Drawing on a literature review and qu…

Alessandro Flammini, Hanif Adzmir, Kevin Karl +1

This paper estimates GHG emissions from non-renewable wood fuel harvesting for household cooking, by country and globally. In 2019, annual emissions were about 745 Mt CO2 eq, with uncertainty from -63% to +64%. Increases in sub-Saharan Afri…

Steffen Wurm, Adrian Kasner, Oliver Petrović +1

This paper proposes a modular system architecture for automated Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) calculation in manufacturing, using the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) as a digital twin. It defines four functional layers (Sources, Network, …

Soheil Kazemian, Rashid Zaman, Behzad Foroughi +1

This study analyzes the carbon footprint of Australia's utility services sector (electricity, gas, water, waste) from 2013-2017 using input-output analysis and the IELab framework. It finds the sector accounted for 43.1% of national carbon …

Roberto Odorico, Claudio Franci

This report presents a scenario analysis showing that Manila clam aquaculture in the Po Delta can act as a net carbon sink (-0.4 kg CO2-eq/kg) under sustainable management. It integrates methodological innovations in LCA including shell ino…

Sven Winter, Niklas Quernheim, Lars Arnemann +4

This paper proposes the Integral Digital Twin (IDT) concept for integrating sustainability data across the product life cycle. It enables horizontal communication with suppliers and clients and vertical integration within company systems, p…

Aye Chan Soe, Sasichakorn Wongsaichia, Teerapong Pienwisetkaew +3

This study develops a blockchain-based traceability system integrating IoT and mobile apps to enhance carbon footprint transparency in Thailand's organic food supply chain. Using the Quintuple Helix model, it co-designs an MVP with stakehol…

Fabian Zink, B. Wallner, T. Trautner

This paper addresses the lack of fine-grained authorization and access control at the submodel and property level when combining Gaia-X compliant dataspaces with Asset Administration Shells (AAS). It proposes an attribute-based access contr…

O. Morales, N. Pardo, J.P. Gonzalez

This study assesses carbon footprints of seven campuses of Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia from 2019 to 2022 using the Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard Protocol. It quantifies Scope 1, 2, and selected Scope 3 emissions, ident…