Under the hood of a carbon footprint calculator
Optimization and Control
2025-09-22 v2
Abstract
We explain the mathematical theory of the Input-Output method for carbon footprints computations.
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@article{arxiv.2501.06251,
title = {Under the hood of a carbon footprint calculator},
author = {Indira Chatterji and Ariadna Fossas Tenas and Elise Raphael},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.06251},
year = {2025}
}
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