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Carbon handprint – An approach to assess the positive climate impacts of products demonstrated via renewable diesel case
(Elsevier, 2018-09-28)
The capacity to calculate and communicate the beneficial environmental impact of products and services is lacking in scientific guidelines. To fill this gap, this article presents a new approach for calculating the carbon ...
Carbon Handprint Guide
(VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., 2018)
Climate change is one of the critical challenges of our age and carbon footprint calculation has emerged as a standard method of estimating the global warming potential of products. However, shifting the thinking from ...
Business strategies for managing legislative requirements: A case study of legislative sustainability requirements for biofuels in the EU
(Inderscience Publishers, 2018)
Businesses employ different strategies to manage legislative requirements; however, there is little science-based understanding of the strategies that are in use. This study introduces a general legislation maturity model ...
Carbon Handprint
(Springer, Cham, 2020-05-13)
A carbon handprint is a new approach developed to quantify the positive climate impact of products and services. In contrast to carbon footprint, which refers to negative global warming potential as a consequence of ...
Environmental Impact Assessment
(Springer, 2020-06-04)
The premises of environmental impact assessment (EIA) lie in the Earth’s limited environmental carrying capacity (Mebratu 1998; Meadows et al. 2005; Rockström et al. 2009; Steffen et al. 2015), the concept of sustainable ...
Life Cycle Assessment
(Springer, Cham, 2020-05-24)
Life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology is a standardized method for assessing the potential environmental impact of a product or service throughout its lifetime (ISO 14040). As such, it represents a valuable tool by which ...
Oljen pellolta poistamisen ympäristöllisen kestävyyden näkökulmia
(Lappeenrannan-Lahden teknillinen yliopisto LUT, 2021)
Olkea hyödynnetään perinteisesti maataloudessa esimerkiksi peltojen maanparannuksessa tai karjan kuivikkeena. Olkea kerätään myös energiantuotantoa ja esimerkiksi bioetanolin valmistusta varten. Olki on viime aikoina ...
Carbon handprint guide V. 2.0 Applicable for environmental handprint
(VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, 2021-04)
Climate change is one of the critical challenges of our age and carbon footprint calculation has emerged as a standard method of estimating the global warming potential of products. In addition to climate change, environmental ...
Developing the nitrogen handprint approach to quantify the positive impacts of industrial symbiosis on nitrogen cycles
(Elsevier, 2022-08-13)
Excessive nitrogen (N) uptake for nutrient use in food production and industry and increased N losses to the environment severely interfere with nutrient cycles and harm the environment and thus, closing N cycles through ...
Approach for assessing environmental handprints
(EDP Sciences, 2022-05-20)
The need to reveal positive environmental consequences of offerings has risen as urgent climate actions are needed from companies. The environmental handprint approach was developed to indicate the positive environmental ...