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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"carbon accounting"”.
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An analysis of system boundaries in hybrid carbon accounting methods
… anthropogenic climate change is to reduce carbon emissions. An entity; be it individual, company, or nation state, is more able to reduce their carbon dioxide equivalent emissions if they can be monitored and attributed, and their effects measured. The current state of carbon accounting …
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Carbon Accounting for Sustainable Computing in Cloud Provisioned Data Centers
Enterprise digital operations require data-driven and scaleable solutions to monitor and manage the increasing environmental impact caused by manufacturing hardware and operating large data center warehouses. Data centers are complex systems comprising of heating, ventilation, cooling, power …
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A Systems Engineering Approach to Carbon Accounting Using System Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA)
… quantification, colloquially referred to as carbon accounting, remain unsettled in consideration. Though numerous considerations have been given to carbon accounting in the literature, little has been offered on the topic from the discipline of Systems Engineering (SE) and its practice of …
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Carbon Accounting in the Arboriculture Industry; Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Tree Surgery
… to maintain trees in urban areas; removing carbon sinks (trees) and emitting CO2 during management practices. Therefore, it has been suggested that the arboriculture industry may make a disproportionately large contribution to GHG emissions when compared to the size of the sector. The study …
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EVALUATING THE PERFORMANCE OF BIOMETRIC APPROACHES FOR VERIFICATION AND MONITORING IN COMMERCIAL FOREST CARBON ACCOUNTING
Of the strategies to increase land carbon storage and avoid GHG emissions through natural ecosystem management, Forest-based Climate Solutions (FbCS) are believed to offer the greatest mitigation potential. As more funds are allocated towards FbCS deployment, questions arise regarding their actual …
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An investigation of Organisational Carbon Accounting (OCA) practices in the Defence Sector to determine how these can best support Low Carbon Technology Innovation
… sector has to support the development of low carbon technologies. This exploratory research applies an inductive approach and a strongly archival strategy in order to investigate how Organisational Carbon Accounting (OCA) practices in the defence sector can best support low carbon technology …
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An analysis of influential methodological practices in consumption-based accounting methods
… anthropogenic climate change is to reduce carbon emissions. An entity; be it individual, company, or nation state, is more able to reduce their carbon dioxide equivalent emissions if they can be monitored and attributed, and their effects measured. The current state of carbon accounting …
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Estimating life cycle carbon emissions of the global oil supply chain at a high-resolution using optimization in a network model
… problem that it is, requires aggressive decarbonization across the entire life cycle. With the evolving energy mix, the oil industry is in a phase of adaptation. At present, petroleum fuels account for a third of the global primary energy supply. Future forecasts range across a spectrum …
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Decarbonization strategies for North American urban landscapes: Evaluating pavements and vegetation across design typologies
… mitigation, yet remain underrepresented in carbon accounting frameworks relative to buildings and infrastructure. This thesis advances landscape carbon assessment by introducing a typology-based Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) framework for landscape architecture. The framework integrates …
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Enhancing the Use of Building Information Modelling (BIM) to Better Enable Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in Sustainable Architectural Practice
… (EIP) of building materials, and embodied carbon accounting using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology. The research focuses on evaluating the Quality Control (QC) of industry-prepared BIM models within the Canadian Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry, aiming to …
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Evaluating and improvement of tree stump volume prediction models in the eastern United States
Forests are considered among the best carbon stocks on the planet. After forest harvest, the residual tree stumps persist on the site for years after harvest continuing to store carbon. A bigger concern is that the component ratio method requires a way to get stump volume to obtain total tree …
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Developing a Decision-Making Framework for Carbon: Incorporating Carbon into Optimized Business Objectives
Carbon emission reductions have been at the center of decision-making for companies across industries, particularly in automotive. As electric vehicles are introduced to the market, there is a large potential for reducing emissions associated with transportation. However, the process to build and …
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Urban-Scale Decomposition of Carbon Peaking Targets in the Yangtze River Delta from a Consumption-Based Responsibility Perspective
Under the background of the carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals, the scientifically grounded decomposition of the carbon peaking target to the city level has emerged as a vital issue in China’s climate governance. As one of the regions with the highest economic development and strongest …
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The hydrological flux of organic carbon at the catchment scale: a case study in the Cotter River catchment, Australia
Existing terrestrial carbon accounting models have mainly investigated atmosphere-vegetationsoil stocks and fluxes but have largely ignored the hydrological flux of organic carbon. It is generally assumed that biomass and soil carbon are the only relevant pools in a landscape ecosystem. However, …
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The hydrological flux of organic carbon at the catchment scale: a case study in the Cotter River catchment, Australia
Existing terrestrial carbon accounting models have mainly investigated atmosphere-vegetationsoil stocks and fluxes but have largely ignored the hydrological flux of organic carbon. It is generally assumed that biomass and soil carbon are the only relevant pools in a landscape ecosystem. However, …
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Assessment methodology for the environmental impact of bridges
… by developing a methodology assessing embodied carbon of bridges instead of buildings, second by applying this method to fifteen footbridges and six road bridges, and third by including traffic, operation and maintenance into carbon accounting and conducting three cases studies. The results show …
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Accounting frameworks, uncertainty, and compliance pathways in Iceland’s LULUCF sector : a System Dynamics approach
… within 1.9%. An interactive interface exposes accounting framework presets and scenario controls for exploration. Four findings emerge. First, the same physical Icelandic LULUCF system at 2030 produces reported values spanning a range of 6,575 kt CO2e across four accounting framework …
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Inventorying trees in an urban landscape using small-footprint discrete return imaging lidar
… to reduce inventory costs but also to support carbon accounting for urban planners and policy-makers. However, urban areas are heterogeneous and complex, and a more sophisticated approach is needed for using remote-sensing technology like lidar for tree inventory in urban areas than is required …
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Projecting Carbon Pools in Aboveground Woody Accumulations and Harvested Wood in Loblolly Pine Plantations of the Southern United States: From Stand-level to Regional Scales
Accounting for in-woods carbon storage in carbon accounting systems may be insufficient when substantial amounts of sequestered carbon are harvested and converted to long-lived wood products and landfills. The potential for offsetting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by storing carbon in managed …
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Analysis of future carbon tax scenarios for South African gold mines
The South African Carbon Tax Act came into effect in 2019, and it places a price on the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG). The second phase of the carbon tax will be implemented in 2023. Presently, there is uncertainty regarding the changes that will be made to tax policy during this review. This …
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