The boundary_scope_term table

The closed vocabulary of the questions a boundary answers: is capital equipment inside, is the fuel's upstream inside. A boundary name alone does not settle those.

Fields#

field type required example meaning
code text yes capital_goods, upstream_fuel, ...
description text yes Free prose describing this row.
stage text yes Where the term sits in the life cycle, so a consumer can group them: the four phases upstream / production / downstream / eol, plus two stages that are not phases and are drawn apart from them (MOD-0032 R8): beyond_boundary (a credit for what leaves the system) and inclusion (a content counted across every phase: equipment, overheads, an unplaced freight leg). Carbon pools are not terms: the value's co2e_basis and gas legs answer them.

Referenced by#

system_boundary_scope.term_code.

Notes#

Terms are answered per boundary in system_boundary_scope, and overridden per factor by emission_factor.boundary_profile. A term with no answer means not established, never excluded.