The Role of Input–output Analysis for the Screening of Corporate Carbon Footprints

Huang, Yue; Lenzen, Manfred; Weber, Christopher L.; Murray, Joy; Matthews, H. Scott

doi:10.1080/09535310903541348

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“…EIO analyses offers a top-down approach without any cut-offs and with the possibility of easy inclusion of uses that are only measured in monetary terms, such as services [4]. This makes the approach suitable for hotspot analysis and boundary decisions [2,10,32].…”

Section: Eio Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…He constructed a linear model of the U.S. economy relating the production inputs of goods and services in an economy to the production outputs of other sectors [2,10]. Today, almost all countries regularly compile IO tables as part of their national accounts.…”

Section: Eio Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These companies recognize that the indirect impacts from consumption of raw materials, machinery, equipment and other supporting products and services can have a significant share of the total environmental impact related to the company's activities. Looking at greenhouse gases as a single indicator, carbon footprint studies show that, depending on the sector, embedded emissions upstream in the value chain can account for up to and over 90% [2,3]. This is especially the case for service-oriented companies, where environmental loads, such as air emissions, are not produced at the actual site of activity but are indirect impacts [4].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A number of studies on applied EIO analyses can be found in the literature [2,14,16,17]. In most of these studies, focus has been on demonstrating EIO analysis as a tool to overcome the hurdles of time-consuming data collection and incompleteness of traditional LCA methods.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…An EIO analysis is a "top-down" approach, capable of capturing impacts from the entire supply chain and is useable as a screening tool to inform estimation of the anticipated life cycle emissions [2]. However, the approach is also criticised, mainly for being too aggregated, thus causing the need to hybridize with "bottom-up" data collection, where the generic EIO model is evaluated as being insufficient [2,[13][14][15].…”

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Application of Environmental Input-Output Analysis for Corporate and Product Environmental Footprints—Learnings from Three Cases

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Høst-Madsen²,

Schmidt

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Sustainability

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An increasing number of companies are expanding their environmental impact reduction targets and strategies to include their supply chains or whole product life cycles. In this paper, we demonstrate and evaluate an approach, where we used a hybrid Environmental Input-Output (EIO) database as a basis for corporate and product environmental footprint accounts, including the entire supply chain. We present three cases, where this approach was applied. Case study 1 describes the creation of total corporate carbon footprint accounts for three Danish regional healthcare organisations. In case study 2, the approach was used as basis for an Environmental Profit and Loss account for the healthcare company, Novo Nordisk A/S. Case study 3 used the approach for life cycle assessment of a tanker ship. We conclude that EIO-based analyses offer a holistic view of environmental performance, provide a foundation for decision-making within reasonable time and cost, and for companies with a large upstream environmental footprint, the analysis supports advancing their sustainability agenda to include supply chain impacts. However, there are implications when going from screening to implementing the results, including how to measure and monitor the effect of the different actions. Thus, future research should include more detailed models to support decision-making.

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Section: Eio Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Eio Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Inoperability Input–Output Modeling Approach to Risk Analysis in Biomass Supply Chains

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Aziz

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Process Design Strategies for Biomass Conversion Systems

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Corporate Carbon Strategies and Greenhouse Gas Emission Assessments: The Implications of Scope 3 Emission Factor Selection

Downie

Stubbs

2012

Bus Strat Env

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Scholars and practitioners acknowledge the benefits of organizations understanding their contribution to global warming and implementing carbon management strategies to address climate change concerns. A key element of a carbon management strategy is to reduce emissions, which requires an assessment of a firm's greenhouse gas emissions. For most organizations the indirect (scope 3) emissions represent the largest portion of their total carbon footprint. When facility‐specific data are not available, firms are encouraged to use standard emission factors to calculate scope 3 emissions. This paper investigates how sampled Australian organizations assess their scope 3 emissions with respect to the emission factors they are using to convert activity data into units of carbon dioxide equivalent emission (CO2‐e), and the implications for producing an accurate emission assessment. The research study found that, where conversion information was not available in a recognized government publication, the use of varying conversion value sources resulted in wide discrepancies in reported emissions for like activities. This undermines the assessment quality, makes comparison of results across organizations difficult and can lead to inappropriate carbon management strategy choices and misallocation of resources. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

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The Role of Input–output Analysis for the Screening of Corporate Carbon Footprints

Cited by 155 publications

References 16 publications

Application of Environmental Input-Output Analysis for Corporate and Product Environmental Footprints—Learnings from Three Cases

Application of Environmental Input-Output Analysis for Corporate and Product Environmental Footprints—Learnings from Three Cases

Inoperability Input–Output Modeling Approach to Risk Analysis in Biomass Supply Chains

Corporate Carbon Strategies and Greenhouse Gas Emission Assessments: The Implications of Scope 3 Emission Factor Selection

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