Beyond Excel: How Machine Learning is Revolutionizing Life Cycle Assessment
We all know the problem with Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): It’s too hard. To calculate the carbon footprint of a single product, analysts spend months digging through PDFs, manually entering data into spreadsheets, and struggling with missing values. In my recent paper published in PLOS Climate, I explored how we can modernize this outdated workflow using Data Science. The New Framework Instead of treating Machine Learning (ML) as a “black box,” we mapped specific ML techniques to the four standard ISO phases of LCA. ...