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ABOUT TCC
The Climate Conservancy is a non-profit organization founded by scientists at Stanford University to inform decision makers about the GHG emissions embodied in the products and services they buy, and to foster market mechanisms that will lead to reduced emissions. Our primary focus is the advancement of a Climate Conscious carbon label on consumer packaged goods that will score products based on their GHG intensity (the grams of CO2-equivalent emissions per dollar of product), which should provide consumers with a ready and meaningful basis of comparison among all products, including similar ones.
Our Climate Conscious
Assessment uses process-specific life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology to document GHG emissions produced throughtout the value chain of consumer products, and has been peer-reviewed by top scientists, economists and engineers (Advisors). We believe our methodology to be the most comprehensive and accurate calculation of a product's carbon footprint available. TCC's Climate Conscious product label will appear on store shelves in early 2008 upon completion of beta-testing this winter.
For the many products that have not yet been assessed by this rigorous methodology, we are compiling a searchable database of estimated GHG intensity of products based on detailed economic input-output tables and principles of economic input-output LCA (EIO-LCA). In the absence of process-specific data, such estimates are useful to an improved understanding of the indirect GHG emissions of American consumers.
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