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Life cycle carbon footprint report for C40

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I’m guessing this assumes about a 50/50 split in fossil fuels vs renewable for energy production.
It takes some digging through the report, but they state that they use the EU-28 electricity mix from the 2017 GaBi database -- which looks like this: (Source: https://gabi.sphera.com/fileadmin/GaBi_Databases/Database_Upgrade_2017_Upgrades_and_improvements.pdf)
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So eyeballing it -- the non-carbon emitting sources would be:
nuclear + hydro + wind + solar + others = ~30% + ~10% + ~5% + ~2.5% + ~2.5% = ~50%