03/11

Lin Liping1, Huang Shengyou2, Li Junchang3 650224; 3. Vietnam National University of Forestry, Hanoi, Vietnam 156200) argues that the unreasonable definition of functional units is one of the primary reasons why verification results fail to gain broad social acceptance. The authors propose introducing “standard products” as functional units in panel furniture—a convenient accounting approach—so that the carbon footprint of a standard product can serve as a proxy for the carbon emissions of an entire product category, thereby enabling comparability among products from different categories and companies.