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ecoinvent 3.12 cut-off, climate change: total (excl. biogenic CO2) / 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
Comparison measurements and reference
Databaseecoinvent 3.12 cut-off
Source formatEcoSpold 2
Impact method collectionIPCC 2021
Impact categoryclimate change: total (excl. biogenic CO2) / global warming potential (GWP500)
Unitkg CO2-Eq
Activities compared20,170
Median ratio (VoLCA / published)1.0228
Comparison band1%
Activities outside the band13,946
Share outside the band69.14%
VerdictDisagrees: misses the agreement a release is held to
Points drawn2,013
Largest relative deviation+23,742.88%
Activity with largest deviationtreatment of bagasse, from sugarcane, in heat and power co-generation unit, 6400kW thermal
Published referenceecoinvent 3.12_cut-off_cumulative_lcia_xlsx.7z
ecoinvent 3.12 cut-off, climate change: total (excl. biogenic CO2) / global warming potential (GWP500)
Each point is one activity: what ecoinvent 3.12 cut-off published for climate change: total (excl. biogenic CO2) / 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%. 20,170 activities were compared; 13,946 fall outside the band, more than a picture can hold, so 1,834 of the 20,170 are drawn, evenly spaced over the published value whichever side of the band they fall, and the 179 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 1.0228, 69.14% 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.