A comparison of carbon calculators

By J. Padgett, A. Steinemann, J. Clarke, M. Vandenbergh. 2008

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Household actions can provide a behavioral wedge to rapidly reduce US carbon emissions (2009, background): “For example, carbon calculators, which typically include estimates of emissions associated with purchases of food and other consumer goods, yield inconsistent results and so far do not provide enough information for validation (36).”
Consumption‐based carbon accounting: does it have a future? (2017, background): “Fourth, carbon footprints could play an important role, as they have been used to label products and develop carbon calculators in the hope that they will incentivise consumers to purchase and adopt greener products and lifestyles.(113,114) They have also been suggested to create positive competitio”
Carbon footprint: current methods of estimation (2011, background): “calculations by different organizations vary significantly (Wiedmann and Minx 2007; Kenny and Gray 2008; Padgett et al. 2008 ).”