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Carbon Life-Cycle Assessments: Friend or Foe?

  • Posted on July 30, 2011 at 10:58 pm

Naomi Soderstrom, accounting professor at the Leeds School of Business, discusses the value and limitations of a life-cycle assessment, a popular tool that measures the environmental impact of an object from production through consumption. She explains how their accuracy depends on the scope and assumptions of the assessment. For example, when measuring a paper bag, do you assume the paper was harvested from a managed or wild forest? For a plastic bag, do you add the environmental impact of oil extraction embodied in the plastic?

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