EcoSpold 2 · Calculation comparison

ecoinvent 3.10.1 cut-off, climate change / global warming potential (GWP100)

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.

Engine version: volca 0.14.0 (bd7e64a, v0.14.0, linux)
Measured on: 2026-09-20

Comparison measurements and reference
Database	ecoinvent 3.10.1 cut-off
Source format	EcoSpold 2
Impact method collection	IPCC 2021
Impact category	climate change / global warming potential (GWP100)
Unit	kg CO2-Eq
Activities compared	21,993
Median ratio (VoLCA / published)	1.0000
Comparison band	1%
Activities outside the band	0
Share outside the band	0%
Verdict	Agrees: meets the agreement a release is held to
Points drawn	2,000
Largest relative deviation	0%
Activity with largest deviation	market for water, decarbonised
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 / global warming potential (GWP100) (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%. 21,993 activities were compared; 2,000 from inside the band are drawn, evenly spaced over the published value. Where several fall on one spot, at most three markers are drawn there, since a fourth would not darken it. Median ratio 1.0000, 0.00% outside the band. This meets the agreement a release is held to: at most 5% of activities outside the band and a median ratio inside it.