ICM Database
About ICM Database
The Integrated Carbon Metrics (ICM) Database is an Australian-specific life cycle inventory providing carbon footprint intensities for construction and building materials. It includes results from both a process method (based on AusLCI process data) and a hybrid method (combining process data with input-output data to capture upstream activities).
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| Description | The Integrated Carbon Metrics (ICM) Database is an Australian-specific life cycle inventory providing carbon footprint intensities for construction and building materials. It includes results from both a process method (based on AusLCI process data) and a hybrid method (combining process data with input-output data to capture upstream activities). |
| Source type | Academic |
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| Year released | 2019 |
| Geography | AU |
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| Type of data | Activity-based |
| Emission results | CO2e |
| Data Transformation | NA |
License
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| Type of license | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) |
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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 The source does not clarify the IPCC AR version of GWPs used to calculate CO2e. |
Methodology
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| Methodology description | Emission factors are calculated using a Hybrid Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology. Hybrid LCA combines the process-level specificity of traditional LCA with the economy-wide comprehensiveness of Input-Output Analysis (IOA). Several approaches to this combination exist; in all cases, specific data on individual processes are connected with data from an input-output model (Wiedmann, 2010). The approach used for this database is integrated hybrid LCA, in which a monetary input-output table is connected to a physical process matrix (Suh, 2004; Wiedmann, 2010). The different types of hybrid LCA are described in detail in Crawford et al. (2018). Two main data sources are hybridised: process data from the Australian National Life Cycle Inventory Database, and input-output data from an Australian national Supply-and-Use Table (SUT). The integration of these datasets and the underlying calculations are described in detail in Yu and Wiedmann (2018) and Yu et al. (2020). References Crawford, R. H., Bontinck, P.-A., Stephan, A., Wiedmann, T., Yu, M. (2018). Hybrid life cycle inventory methods — a review. Journal of Cleaner Production, 172, 1273–1288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.10.176 Suh, S. (2004). Functions, commodities and environmental impacts in an ecological–economic model. Ecological Economics, 48(4), 451–467. Wiedmann, T. (2010). Frequently asked questions about input-output analysis. Centre for Sustainability Accounting (CENSA). Yu, M., Wiedmann, T. (2018). Implementing hybrid LCA routines in an input–output virtual laboratory. Journal of Economic Structures, 7(1), 33. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40008-018-0131-1 Yu, M., Robati, M., Oldfield, P., Wiedmann, T., Crawford, R., Nezhad, A. A., Carmichael, D. (2020). The impact of value engineering on embodied greenhouse gas emissions in the built environment: A hybrid life cycle assessment. Building and Environment, 168, 106452. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2019.106452 |
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