A global, scope-based carbon footprint modeling for effective carbon reduction policies: Lessons from the Turkish manufacturing

Küçükvar, Murat; Eğilmez, Gökhan; Onat, Nuri Cihat; Samadi, Hamidreza

doi:10.1016/j.spc.2015.05.005

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“…At this point, Input-Output (IO) based LCA models provide a top-down analysis using sectoral monetary transaction matrixes considering complex interactions between the sectors of nations' economy [90][91][92][93]. Guinée et al [1] emphasized the importance of the IO analysis for the future of LCSA and discussed the necessity of system-based sustainability assessment methods including hybrid LCA and IO LCA.…”

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Systems Thinking for Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment: A Review of Recent Developments, Applications, and Future Perspectives

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Abstract:Tracking the environmental impacts of production, use, and disposal of products (e.g., goods, and services) have been an important issue in the global economy. Although Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a widely applied method to track these environmental impacts and support policies, it has certain limitations and an isolated way of evaluating the environmental impacts with no consideration of social and economic impacts and mechanisms. To overcome the limits of current LCA, three mechanisms have been proposed in the literature: (1) broadening the indicators by including social and economic indicators in addition to the environmental impacts; (2) broadening the scope of analysis from product-level assessment to national and global levels; (3) deepening the assessment by inclusion of more mechanisms to account for interrelations among the system elements, uncertainty analysis, stakeholder involvement, etc. With these developments, LCA has been evolving into a new framework called Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA). Practical application of LCSA requires integration of various methods, tools, and disciplines. In this study, a comprehensive literature review is conducted to investigate recent developments, current challenges, and future perspectives in the LCSA literature. According to the review, a high number (40%) of LCSA studies are from the environmental science discipline, while contributions from other disciplines such as economics (3%) and social sciences (9%) are very low. On broadening the scope of analysis, 58% of the studies are product-level works, while 37% quantified the impacts at national level and achieved an economy-wide analysis, and only 5% of the studies were able to quantify the global impacts of products using LCSA framework. Furthermore, current applications of LCSA have not considered the rebound effects, feedback mechanisms, and interrelations of the system of interest sufficiently. To address these challenges, we present a complete discussion about the overarching role of systems thinking to bring tools, methods and disciplines together, and provide practical examples from the earlier studies that have employed various system-based methods. We discuss the importance of integrated system-based methods for advancement of LCSA framework in the following directions: (1) regional and global level LCSA models using multi-region input-output analysis that is capable of quantitatively capturing macro-level social, environmental, and economic impacts; (2) dealing with uncertainties in LCSA during multi-criteria decision-making process and expert judgments in weighting of LCSA indicators; and (3) integration of system dynamics modeling to reveal complex interconnections, dependencies, and causal relationships between sustainability indicators.

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Systems Thinking for Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment: A Review of Recent Developments, Applications, and Future Perspectives

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“…However, WIOD places a relatively high reliance on official national accounts statistics (rather than computational algorithmic estimation techniques) and provides the greatest transparency over underlying data sources and methodologies used to construct the tables. Hence, the WIOD is one of the most frequently utilized databases in the literature [ Baldwin and Lopez‐Gonzalez , ; Johnson , ; Kucukvar et al ., ; Fujii and Managi , ]. Once the concordance table has been utilized, the direct economic loss is shown relative to the NACE (revision 1) categorization at the national level.…”

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Quantifying the daily economic impact of extreme space weather due to failure in electricity transmission infrastructure

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Extreme space weather due to coronal mass ejections has the potential to cause considerable disruption to the global economy by damaging the transformers required to operate electricity transmission infrastructure. However, expert opinion is split between the potential outcome being one of a temporary regional blackout and of a more prolonged event. The temporary blackout scenario proposed by some is expected to last the length of the disturbance, with normal operations resuming after a couple of days. On the other hand, others have predicted widespread equipment damage with blackout scenarios lasting months. In this paper we explore the potential costs associated with failure in the electricity transmission infrastructure in the U.S. due to extreme space weather, focusing on daily economic loss. This provides insight into the direct and indirect economic consequences of how an extreme space weather event may affect domestic production, as well as other nations, via supply chain linkages. By exploring the sensitivity of the blackout zone, we show that on average the direct economic cost incurred from disruption to electricity represents only 49% of the total potential macroeconomic cost. Therefore, if indirect supply chain costs are not considered when undertaking cost‐benefit analysis of space weather forecasting and mitigation investment, the total potential macroeconomic cost is not correctly represented. The paper contributes to our understanding of the economic impact of space weather, as well as making a number of key methodological contributions relevant for future work. Further economic impact assessment of this threat must consider multiday, multiregional events.

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“…Hence, a MRIO model is required to correctly calculate the environmental impacts of food production, which might indicate higher dependency on global trade from certain perspectives (agricultural products, energy, minerals, etc.) (Hertwich and Peters, 2010;Kucukvar et al, 2015). In this research, we used the WIOD to obtain monetary transactions between the world's major economies, which are grouped under 40 countries.…”

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“…There are currently a number of global MRIO databases developed throughout the world, including Externality Data and InputeOutput Tools for Policy Analysis (EXIO-POL), the World InputeOutput Database (WIOD), Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP), Global Resource Accounting Model (GRAM), and EoRA (Lenzen et al, 2013;Tukker and Dietzenbacher, 2013;Wiedmann et al, 2011). These MRIO databases are extensively utilized for estimating the sustainability impacts of products (Nansai et al, 2012;Rodríguez-Alloza et al, 2014), industries (Duarte et al, 2014;Kucukvar et al, 2015), household consumption (Wiedmann et al, 2009;Hertwich and Peters, 2009), and international trade Giljum et al, 2008).…”

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Linking national food production to global supply chain impacts for the energy-climate challenge: the cases of the EU-27 and Turkey

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Samadi

2015

Journal of Cleaner Production

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A global, scope-based carbon footprint modeling for effective carbon reduction policies: Lessons from the Turkish manufacturing

Cited by 63 publications

References 89 publications

Systems Thinking for Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment: A Review of Recent Developments, Applications, and Future Perspectives

Systems Thinking for Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment: A Review of Recent Developments, Applications, and Future Perspectives

Quantifying the daily economic impact of extreme space weather due to failure in electricity transmission infrastructure

Linking national food production to global supply chain impacts for the energy-climate challenge: the cases of the EU-27 and Turkey

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