Circular Ecology
About Circular Ecology
Circular Ecology offers resource efficiency services, including carbon footprinting, water footprinting, life cycle assessment (LCA), circular economy and general resource efficiency.
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ICE Database v3
| Property | Value |
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| Description | Circular Ecology offers resource efficiency services, including carbon footprinting, water footprinting, life cycle assessment (LCA), circular economy and general resource efficiency. |
| Source type | Corporate |
| Original dataset URL | URL |
| Year released | 2019 |
| Geography | Multiple regions, Global |
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| Type of data | Activity-based |
| Emission results | CO2e |
| Data Transformation | NA |
License
| Property | Value |
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| Type of license | Permission granted by Circular Ecology |
| License URL | Not specified |
Data quality
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| Data quality assurance | Vetted by Climatiq. For further information on data quality assurance, see: https://www.climatiq.io/methodology#Data-Quality |
| Quality flag(s) | Methodology For some emission factors, the source does not clarify the IPCC AR version of GWPs used to calculate CO2e. |
Methodology
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| Standard | Mainly EN15804 and ISO 14067 |
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| Methodology description | Circular Ecology compiles data from various sources. Some emission factors are averages, some come from a single LCA or sector average EPD. Different sources follow different standards but most data (89%) come from EN15804 EPDs. 4% of data align with ISO 14067 and the remainder is either ISO 14044 or no standard method. The methodologies applied vary by material; see the individual emission factor descriptions for the methodology used. There are up to three lca activities for each material: cradle_to_gate: Modules A1 to A3 excluding biogenic carbon dioxide uptake and storage in the material carbon_storage: biogenic carbon dioxide uptake and storage in the material carbon_storage-cradle_to_gate: Modules A1 to A3 including biogenic carbon dioxide uptake and storage in the material. The methodology for each material type is available in the database download file from the source page. You may need to register first: https://circularecology.com/embodied-carbon-footprint-database.html |
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UBA
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