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# pathways
# ``pathways``

``pathways`` is a Python package that characterizes the
environmental impacts of products, secctors or energy systems
and transition scenarios over time using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).
environmental impacts of products, sectors or transition scenarios
over time using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).
Compared to traditional scenario results from energy models,
``pathways`` provides a more detailed and transparent view of the
environmental impacts of a scenario by resolving supply chains
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``pathways`` is initially designed to work with data packages produced
by ``premise``, but can be used with any IAM scenarios and LCA databases.

``pathways`` reads a scenario and a corresponding set of scenario-based LCA matrices
and calculates the environmental impacts of the scenario (or a subset of it) over time.

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<img src="https://github.com/polca/pathways/blob/main/assets/diagram_1.png" height="300"/>
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## Installation

``pathways`` is in an early development stage, and
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