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Abstract

With the Net Zero agenda gaining significant traction across the world, organisations are often required to report carbon emissions associated with their operation. However, calculating emissions is a non-trivial task and reported scores can differ depending on the choices made by those performing the calculations or the software used to assist with this task. Emission conversion factors are used to calculate greenhouse emissions for different business operations. This ontology aims to enhance the transparency of the carbon footprint calculations via detailed provenance traces. See more...

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This ontology defines a vocabulary for describing provenance traces of carbon emission calculations by capturing the quantifiable measurements of carbon emission sources used by some activities (e.g., electricity used by a machinery to produce a product, petrol used to make a car journey, etc.) and emission conversion factors used to estimate the carbon emissions produced by these. In addition, the ontology provides the ability to capture various data transformations that occurred before energy estimates may be used with relevant conversion factors. For example, sensors may provide raw readings about a water flow of an irrigation rig in an agri-food operation which is then used as a proxy to estimate the total volume of fertilisers used. See more...

Initial created on April 23, 2023. For additional information, contact Lov Migration (mohamed-el-amine.boukerfa@inrae.fr).

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