EcoSpold 2 · Calculation comparison

ecoinvent 3.10.1 cut-off, climate change: fossil / global warming potential (GWP500)

A comparison of published impact results with VoLCA calculations from the same source data and the publisher’s impact factors. Points on the diagonal agree.

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Engine version: volca 0.13.0 (8c0396c, v0.13.0, linux)
Measured on: 2026-09-18

Comparison measurements and reference
Database	ecoinvent 3.10.1 cut-off
Source format	EcoSpold 2
Impact method collection	IPCC 2021
Impact category	climate change: fossil / global warming potential (GWP500)
Unit	kg CO2-Eq
Activities compared	17,972
Median ratio (VoLCA / published)	1.0344
Comparison band	1%
Activities outside the band	13,755
Share outside the band	76.54%
Verdict	Disagrees: misses the agreement a release is held to
Points drawn	2,172
Largest relative deviation	+2,380,118.24%
Activity with largest deviation	market for land tenure, arable land, measured as carbon net primary productivity, annual crop
Published reference	ecoinvent 3.10.1_cutoff_cumulative_lcia_xlsx.7z

Each point is one activity: what ecoinvent 3.10.1 cut-off published for climate change: fossil / global warming potential (GWP500) (kg CO2-Eq), against what VoLCA computes from the same EcoSpold 2 source under the publisher's own IPCC 2021 factors. The black line is equality and the grey band is 1%. 17,972 activities were compared; 13,755 fall outside the band, more than a picture can hold, so 1,997 of the 17,972 are drawn, evenly spaced over the published value whichever side of the band they fall, and the 175 of the 200 farthest from equality that this walk missed are added. Where several fall on one spot, at most three markers are drawn there, since a fourth would not darken it. Median ratio 1.0344, 76.54% outside the band. This misses the agreement a release is held to: at most 5% of activities outside the band and a median ratio inside it.