A general life cycle methodology and decision-support tools for:

• Calculating environmental and economic impacts of life-cycle carbon inventories, including 'carbon added' and 'value added' along the whole supply chains
  
  
• Optimising environmental and economic objectives to identify a range of optimum low-carbon options
  
  

A standard data acquisition methodology and databases for use in carbon inventory calculations

A software package for calculating carbon inventories for different supply chains

Case studies to examine different business, political and economic scenarios for carbon management and reduction, and estimate the environmental and economic implications of low-carbon materials, products, processes and services.