Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

Some tools and data

• EcoScan (by carbongraph.io):

  • a conversational chatbot that will ask you questions to help you build an inventory table (they call it Bill-of-Material).

  • then, you can generate screening-level LCA results using the ReCiPe 2016 midpoint (H) method

• Extract tables, images, and text from pdf

  • Agentic document extraction (landing.ai)

  • Demo: table detection & recognition with Table Transformer (TATR)

• Dynamic characterization factors (CF) for GWP (by ALIGNED project: https://alignedproject.eu/)

  • ALIGNED-T1.3-Dynamic-CF-CC-tool.xlsx

• Supply Chain Greenhouse Gas Emission Factors for US Industries and Commodities

  • Many organizations quantify Scope 3 emissions, which include purchased goods, services, and capital goods, using supply chain emission factors like those in the "Supply Chain Emission Factors for US Industries and Commodities" dataset, designed for the spend-based method in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol.

• List of open access data and tools that can be used to make footprints (by THE FOOTPRINTS)

• EcoQuery: to search for information of Ecoinvent database

Additional materials

• Procedural guideline for collection, treatment, and quality documentation of LCA data

• Quick start for OpenLCA (compiled by members of Sustainable Bioeconomy Research Group at UBC)

• Learn Canada Fuel Life Cycle Assessment Model

  • Introduction

  • Training materials

• Brigthway LCA Framework: "an open-source software package for life cycle assessment (LCA) and environmental impact assessment written in the Python programming language"

  • Official website

  • Tutorials (compiled by members of Sustainable Bioeconomy Research Group at UBC)