Life-cycle assessments commonly used to analyze the environmental costs and benefits of climate-mitigation options are usually static in nature and address individual power plants. Our paper presents, to our knowledge, the first life-cycle assessment of the large-scale implementation of climate-mitigation technologies, addressing the feedback of the electricity system onto itself and using scenario-consistent assumptions of technical improvements in key energy and material production technologies.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/integrated-life-cycle-assessment-electricity-supply-scenarios-confirms-global
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/edgar-g-hertwich
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/thomas-gibon
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/evert-bouman-et-al
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/proceedings-national-academy-sciences
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/electricity
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/low-carbon-economy
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/fossil-fuels
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/renewable-energy
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/solar-energy
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wind-energy
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/carbon-capture-and-storage
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/solar-thermal-power
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/hydroelectricity
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/air-pollution
[16] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-pollution
[17] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/eutrophication
[18] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/infrastructure-development