Can we get carbon footprint or energy use using openLCA ??

Question

Hey,

I have been working on openLCA since few months.And i wanted to find life cycle energy use or carbon dioxide use(carbon footprint) on the product which i am working on .So that i could verify my results with literature values .How should I carry out this operations ??

Thank you!!

Answer 1

Hi, this is of course possible, with a GWP category (as in almost all method packages) for carbon footprint and CED for energy use over the life cycle.