Characterisation Factors for Planetary-Boundary-Based Absolute Environmental Sustainability Assessment

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Abstract

Characterisation Factors for Planetary-Boundary-Based Absolute Environmental Sustainability Assessment. This dataset provides characterisation factors for the 2684 elementary flows within standard and prospective ecoinvent v3.10.1 databases, enabling the assessment of the elementary flows’ environmental burden across all global planetary boundary categories except novel entities. Contents: Dataset. License: CC-BY 4.0. Authors: Jan Marcus Hartmann, David Yang Shu, André Bardow, Niklas von der Assen. If you use this dataset in your research, please cite: Hartmann, J. M., Shu, D. Y., Bardow, A., & von der Assen, N. (2026). Allocation and characterisation factors for absolute environmental sustainability assessment. Scientific Data, 13, Article 970. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-07797-w The code to import the characterisation factors in brightway is available on GitHub: https://github.com/RWTH-LTT/pbaesa

Authors 4

1. Jan Hartmann Aachen

   RWTH Aachen University

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   RWTH Aachen University

2. David Yang Shu

   Massachusetts Institute of Technology

   Affiliation as printed

   Massachusetts Institute of Technology

3. André Bardow

   ETH Zurich

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   ETH Zurich

4. Niklas von der Assen Aachen

   RWTH Aachen University

   Affiliation as printed

   RWTH Aachen University