Life cycle assessment

Life cycle assessment is the backbone of our services. It is a science-based method to quantify the environmental impacts of producing and using a product or service over its life cycle.

A life cycle approach to sustainability assessment is holistic – it looks at the entire life cycle from cradle to grave and can quantify a wide variety of environmental impacts. That way, LCA avoids cherry-picking only parts of your impact along the value chain.

From raw material inputs to manufacturing, distribution, use, and disposal - products and services impact the environment in different ways at different stages in their life.

Our life cycle solutions

Life cycle assessments are always tailored to your specifications and can provide granular detail on what matters most to you. From simple product assessments with one impact category to portfolio-wide assessments covering all impact categories. The greatest advantage is that they enable you to reduce your environmental impact where it matters most.

Product footprint

We deliver life cycle assessments that give you robust, transparent, and science-based insight into the full impact of your products.

Product sustainability

Corporate footprint

A corporate footprint quantifies the sustainability performance of your company's operations and products, providing a 360-degree view of your impact on the planet and a benchmark for your reduction commitments.

Corporate sustainability

Carbon accounting

Know the total greenhouse gas emissions of all your activities and what to do about them with a complete picture of your scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions — including hotspot analysis and mitigation proposals.

Carbon accounting

Biodiversity

How and where does your value chain impact biodiversity and natural habitats? By combining land use data with our updated model on extinction risks for wildlife, we can pinpoint your impact on nature.

Biodiversity

Social sustainability

How does your value chain affect people and communities? We offer a streamlined way to manage the social impact of your company by applying life cycle thinking to social due diligence.

Social sustainability

LCA quality assurance

Have LCA expertise in-house? Let us strengthen the quality of your assessments with a peer review or seamless quality control integration, ensuring your methodology and data live up to the highest standard.

LCA quality assurance

How LCA benefits your business

Future-proof your sustainability strategy
- LCA can be the foundation of your sustainability strategy. Where is the biggest potential for improvement?
Design better products
- LCA can improve the design of new products by showing the impact of different choices before you make them
Craft better policies
- LCA can inform policymakers of the environmental consequences of new policy proposals before they become law
Goodbye to greenwashing
- LCA backs up your sustainability communication with transparent and verifiable data
Comply with sustainability regulation
- LCA provides all the data you need to comply with reporting requirements and value chain due diligence

Which LCA standard should I choose?

The reporting standards for sustainability assessment are constantly evolving and can be difficult to navigate. All our assessments follow the ISO 14040 and 14044 standards for life cycle assessment. If you require an LCA that also complies with a specific product category rule or country-specific guideline— such as EPD, PEF, ISO, GHG, or PCR—we deliver. However, we recommend conducting a consequential LCA to gain the full sustainability picture and avoid burden shifting.

How we work with you

We always begin any new project by listening to you and understanding the specific requirements of your challenge. From there, we suggest possible solutions and outline how we can deliver meaningful results.

What do you want to use the results for?
What data sources do you have in-house?
What is the scope of the project?
Who is the target audience for the results?
What data requirements do you have?
How would you like to integrate our results in your sustainability management system?

Our clients say

CONCITO

“2-0 LCA has been a key partner on CONCITO’s publications and projects on consumption-based emissions and other LCA-related activities. When we had the opportunity to develop the Big Climate Database, showing the climate impact of more than 500 food products, it was only natural to choose 2-0 as our LCA data partner. We are very satisfied with the result and the widespread use of the database in the Danish food service sector, and excited to see that 2-0 LCA is expanding the tool to other countries.”

Michael Minter

Program director, Concito

Maersk

"Our fruitful collaboration with 2-0 LCA allows Maersk to make the most informed transition towards lower-impact fuels. The LCA tool that 2-0 LCA has delivered has been instrumental in showing some of the trade-offs of biofuels – for example, the impacts on land-use changes and biodiversity – and will enable a more sustainable energy transition in the future. This way, we have the right information at hand to minimise unintended consequences and avoid carbon tunnel vision."

Ingrid Marie Andersen

Head of Energy Transition Sustainability, Maersk

Arla Foods

“To realise Arla Foods' very ambitious sustainability strategy, we need solid data, detailed and transparent reporting, and collaborations with talented partners. We've been partnering with 2-0 LCA for more than 10 years and in that time, with 2-0 LCA's expertise in life cycle assessment, we have developed our tool for calculating the carbon footprint from dairy farming — evolving from an Excel-based solution covering a few hundred farms to a fully integrated LCA tool covering almost 8,000 farms across seven different countries.”

Hanne Bang Bligaard

Director of Agri Sustainability, Arla Foods

Proctor & Gamble

“LCA data is complex, with LCA studies often limited by data availability. 2-0 LCA has really helped us close the gap on end-of-life data for chemicals used in cleaning products, providing information that can be trusted for corporate GHG emissions reporting and more. Collaboration with 2-0 on this topic was truly a joy, with their experts speaking up and applying their scientific know-how to educate us, while also listening with respect for our company’s unique context and requirements.”

Joost Dewaele

Senior Scientist, Procter & Gamble

Life cycle assessment

Life cycle assessment is the backbone of our services. It is a science-based method to quantify the environmental impacts of producing and using a product or service over its life cycle.