FACT SHEET Software name: Resources and Energy Analysis Programme (REAP)

The Resources and Energy Analysis Programme (REAP) is a software tool developed by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) to track the environmental consequences of economic activity by analyzing consumption patterns across various spatial scales. It calculates ecological, carbon, and greenhouse gas footprints by combining consumption data with production impacts throughout the supply chain. In the UK, REAP has been applied in over 50 projects, including evaluating regional strategies and creating footprint reduction roadmaps. The tool emphasizes a lifecycle approach, highlighting that consumption-based emissions can exceed production-based emissions due to trade balances, as seen in the UK and Sweden.

• REAP is a software tool used to calculate and monitor ecological, carbon, and greenhouse gas (GHG) footprints for populations at local authority, regional, and national levels in the UK by combining consumption data with production impacts across the entire supply chain.
• The software utilizes a scenario editor to assess the potential environmental impacts of policies in sectors such as energy, transport, food, housing, and planning, allowing users to test specific interventions like sustainable home codes or fuel efficiency improvements.
• Lifecycle analysis reveals that consumption-based emissions are often higher than production-based emissions in developed economies due to imports; specifically, UK consumption emissions were 21% higher than production emissions, and Swedish consumer emissions were 17% higher than producer emissions.
• Since its February 2006 launch in the UK, REAP has been used in over 50 projects, with approximately 20 local authorities integrating it into their policy processes and over two-thirds of all UK local authorities utilizing its footprint data.
• REAP has been applied to specific UK regional policy tasks, including evaluating strategies in the West Midlands and Yorkshire and Humber, creating reduction roadmaps for Wales and the South East, and assessing housing policies in the Leeds City Region.

APA

Paul, A. (2008). FACT SHEET Software name: Resources and Energy Analysis Programme (REAP). Stockholm Environment Institute. https://www.sei.org/mediamanager/documents/Publications/Climate/reap.pdf

Chicago

Paul, Alistair. FACT SHEET Software name: Resources and Energy Analysis Programme (REAP). Stockholm Environment Institute, 2008. https://www.sei.org/mediamanager/documents/Publications/Climate/reap.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{paul2008fact, author = {Paul, Alistair}, title = {{FACT SHEET Software name: Resources and Energy Analysis Programme (REAP)}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2008}, url = {https://www.sei.org/mediamanager/documents/Publications/Climate/reap.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }