Sentences with phrase «climate life cycle assessment»

A First Climate life cycle assessment enables you, together with your partners in the production process, to fully understand your product's environmental impact and identify opportunities to optimize product performance while minimizing resource consumption.

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His main research interests are in the development and application of probabilistic concepts and methods to civil and marine engineering, including: structural reliability; life - cycle cost analysis; probability - based assessment, design, and multi-criteria life - cycle optimization of structures and infrastructure systems; structural health monitoring; life - cycle performance maintenance and management of structures and distributed infrastructure under extreme events (earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and floods); risk - based assessment and decision making; multi-hazard risk mitigation; infrastructure sustainability and resilience to disasters; climate change adaptation; and probabilistic mechanics.

For the first time, their study combines the strengths of simulations based on integrated energy - economy - climate models that estimate cost - optimal long - term strategies to meet climate targets with life cycle assessment approaches.

First Climate is a well - regarded, competent partner for the accounting of greenhouse gas emissions and provides carbon centered life cycle assessments.

Our life cycle assessments analyze the climate impact inherent to the production of goods, at all stages of the value chain.

Through various life cycle assessment studies (Searchinger et al, 2008; DeCicco et al, 2016) performed on annual bioenergy crops such as corn, it has been shown that they are not much better than fossil fuel energy sources in terms of climate and energy impacts.

Therefore, considering climate variability and climate change when carrying out life cycle assessments of industry, infrastructure, transport and network industries is of utmost importance, since the need to locate most of these industries and networks in coastal areas will remain and probably increase with human coastal development.

One was a broad review of around 8200 abstracts on environmental life - cycle assessment, whilst the other was a more in - depth analysis of 275 full - text articles and reports on adaptive capacity to climate change.

Today — due to the important, irreplaceable values of its Arctic waters for Indigenous, Alaska Native and local communities» subsistence and cultures, wildlife and wildlife habitat, and scientific research; the vulnerability of these ecosystems to an oil spill; and the unique logistical, operational, safety, and scientific challenges and risks of oil extraction and spill response in Arctic waters — the United States is designating the vast majority of U.S. waters in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas as indefinitely off limits to offshore oil and gas leasing, and Canada will designate all Arctic Canadian waters as indefinitely off limits to future offshore Arctic oil and gas licensing, to be reviewed every five years through a climate and marine science - based life - cycle assessment.