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Auflistung nach Autor:in "Stichnothe, Heinz"

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  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Carbon Calculations over the Life Cycle of Industrial Activities (CCaLC)
    (Environmental Informatics and Industrial Environmental Protection: Concepts, Methods and Tools, 2009) Morgan, Anthony; Stichnothe, Heinz; Azapagic, Adisa
    The CCaLC project is a ‘Carbon Vision Project Industry’ funded by the Carbon Trust, the NERC and the EPSRC. It is a multi faceted project that involves developing; life cycle methodologies; a data acquisition methodology; case studies of different industrial sectors; and a modelling framework and software tool. This paper focuses on the CCaLC software tool that has been developed during the past year and is currently being developed with feedback from industrial partners. The aim of the software is to allow a wide range of industrial users to quickly, easily and cheaply estimate the carbon footprint for their products and services. A description of the current state of the tool is presented in this paper including the methodology, the aims, the structure and the various features it contains. The main feature of the tool is that it calculates the carbon inventory at each stage of the life-cycle of a product or process. It is intended that it will also allow for the calculation of economic value added at every stage so that environmental and economic impacts can be balanced. The development of this tool is a significant advancement in the field of commercial carbon footprint calculation.
  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Carbon Footprint – brand new or just new fangled?
    (Environmental Informatics and Industrial Environmental Protection: Concepts, Methods and Tools, 2009) Stichnothe, Heinz; Morgan, Anthony
    Carbon Footprint is built upon a whole system approach and addresses only impacts relating to climate change. Climate research and consequently, carbon footprint research are evolving fields and, there are various methodological challenges that have to be solved before carbon footprint calculations are going to become as robust as they should be. However, carbon footprint can foster the development of climate friendlier products and has the potential to enable producers and consumers to make informed choices regarding material sourcing and product purchases. Carbon footprint is non judgemental and allows to make informed choices without allocating quotas or speculating as to the behaviour of future generations. The carbon footprint does not tell the entire environmental or even sustainability story and could be misleading like any other single index. However, it has its value when it is applied according to the purpose it is developed for and within its limits. This paper describes the derivers behind carbon footprint, its limitations and tries to identify the opportunities for the ICT community.