ABSTRACT
In this book we addressed the problems of defining and measuring carbon responsibility and embodied emissions.
In Chapter 2 we reviewed the mathematical techniques required to compute total embodied carbon emissions, using input-output (IO) analysis. Total upstream embodied carbon emissions (TUECEF) and total downstream embodied carbon emissions (TDECEF) of a given economic flow are numbers that indicate the amount of direct and indirect carbon emissions that take place in order to, respectively, generate the economic flow or the monetary payment thereof. That is, TUECEF and TDECEF respectively account for the upstream and downstream emissions throughout the life cycle of an economic flow.
