This topic describes the product carbon footprint tool of Energy Expert platform.
Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) refers to the total amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions directly or indirectly generated by a product during its lifecycle, that is, the total amount of GHG emissions generated from raw material acquisition, manufacturing, packaging, distribution and transportation, product use until final disposal or recycling. The development of the PCF tool of Alibaba Cloud Energy Expert is based on international carbon footprint accounting standard (ISO 14067:2018 Greenhouse gases - Carbon footprint of products - Requirements and guidelines for quantification) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology. The tool possesses a series of features such as data collection, PCF modeling, PCF calculation, results analysis, data quality analysis, PCF report generation, results sharing, etc., which is designed to provide a one-stop online PCF service.
Users can view, create, and manage PCF models in the "Product Carbon Footprint" module of the Energy Expert platform. For each model, this tool provides online functions such as data collection, modeling, calculation, analysis, and report export.