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Climate change mitigation requires assessment of both the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of a country as well as the effectiveness of renewable energy (RE) resources and technologies in reducing (or avoiding) these emissions. GHG inventories can be calculated using the well-known IPCC 2006 guidelines. The technique of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) provides a means of (amongst other things) carrying out detailed calculations of GHG emissions associated with the production and use of RE. This chapter provides a brief introduction to the technique of LCA and its use in the evaluation of RE-related GHG emissions. It begins with a simple case study that demonstrates the need for LCA in RE assessment. It next outlines the main features of the LCA technique, and ends with a brief description of LCA software available as freeware or commercially on the market.
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Singh, A., Charan, D. (2020). Life Cycle Analysis as a Tool in Estimating Avoided Emissions. In: Singh, A. (eds) Translating the Paris Agreement into Action in the Pacific. Advances in Global Change Research, vol 68. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30211-5_4
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