Cradle-to-grave

A lifecycle boundary that runs from raw material extraction or cultivation through processing and use to final disposal or combustion. For fuels the equivalent term is well-to-wheel.

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Core accounting concepts

• Accounting credit
• Additionality
• Attributional accounting
• Avoided-emissions credit
• Biogenic carbon
• Buffer pool
• Carbon accounting
• Carbon neutral
• Carbon removal
• Central estimate
• Consequential accounting
• Counterfactual
• Direct emissions
• Embodied emissions
• Emissions
• Indirect emissions
• Induced effects
• Life cycle
• Life cycle assessment
• Net-negative
• Net-zero
• Offset
• Permanence and reversal
• Process CO₂ capture
• Stoichiometric estimate
• System boundary
• Well-to-tank, tank-to-wheel and well-to-wheel