Estimating the Carbon Footprint of Telecommunications Products: A Heuristic Approach

Estimation of the carbon footprint for telecommunications and electronics products has become a key design activity. Improvement in carbon footprint must be demonstrated consistently on all new products. Current methods of providing a useful estimate are laborious and time-consuming. A simplified approach is described, which uses basic statistical methods for estimation and promises significant improvements over existing methods. {[}DOI: 10.1115/1.4002143]