Abstract:In the context of carbon neutrality, urban green spaces have become a key research focus in landscape architecture due to their important carbon sequestration function. Accurately quantifying carbon emissions, carbon sequestration, and carbon balance over the full life cycle of urban green spaces requires appropriate carbon calculation tools. Through a systematic review and analysis of existing carbon calculation tools for urban green spaces, three tools applicable to full life-cycle carbon calculation are selected: Bond, Pathfinder, and Carbon Conscience. A comparative analysis is conducted from five dimensions: data sources, regional adaptability, functional coverage, applicable stages, and applicable scales. Their technical characteristics and application limitations in the full life-cycle carbon balance calculation of urban green spaces are discussed, and optimization pathways are proposed. The results show that although the three tools integrate comprehensive accounting of carbon emissions and carbon sequestration, their direct application to China's urban green space carbon calculation is hindered by regional data biases and insufficient full life cycle coverage. Further efforts are needed to build localized databases and dynamic models, strengthen full life cycle coverage, support multi-scale integration, and improve user-friendliness and intelligence.