A review of carbon labeling: Standards, implementation, and impact

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 53, Issue , 2016, Pages 68-79

  Liu, Tiantian ^a   Wang, Qunwei ^a   Su, Bin ^b  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Carbon footprint; Carbon label; Climate change; Global warming; Measurement methodology

Indexed keywords

EMISSION CONTROL; GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; LIFE CYCLE; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

CARBON LABELLING; CARBON LABELS; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; GLOBAL CLIMATE WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION REDUCTION; GREENHOUSE GAS PROTOCOLS; LABELINGS; LOW CARBON ECONOMY; MEASUREMENT STANDARDS; MEASUREMENT/METHODOLOGY;

CARBON FOOTPRINT;

EID: 84940994494     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: 18790690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2015.08.050     Document Type: Review

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