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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 @@ -18,6 +18,13 @@ issues are partially resolved. ``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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+ ## Installation ``pathways`` is in an early development stage, and