In EU-funded research projects, the LCA task is typically *ex-ante* or prospective: we assess products, services and technologies that are still under development, with production routes and system configurations that are not yet fixed.

This is a different kind of question to answer. And a more useful one.

Rather than confirming the environmental profile of something that already exists, prospective LCA runs alongside the development process from the start. It compares production routes, raw material choices, process configurations and end-of-life pathways while options are still open. The results feed directly into design decisions, not into reports.

That is the logic behind ex-ante LCA, and it is what we apply across all our EU project work.

Prospective LCA is also a question of method, not just timing.

Consequential LCA (CLCA) is designed precisely for this context. Where attributional LCA describes a product system as it exists today, CLCA models the environmental consequences of decisions and changes: what shifts in the market, what new production comes online, what is displaced. When the question is whether to develop and implement a new technology, CLCA is the method that answers it correctly.

Our expertise in CLCA positions us well for EU research projects. We can quantify the environmental consequences of bringing a new product or process to market — which suppliers respond, what incumbent technologies are displaced, and what the net effect is across the full system.

EU-funded research projects need more than technical LCA competence. They need people who can engage with research consortia, contribute to scientific deliverables, publish in peer-reviewed outlets, and work at the methodological frontier of the field.

2-0 LCA has that background. Our team includes several university professors and staff with PhDs, and our research profile fits naturally into academic and applied research consortia. We know how projects are structured, what consortium partners expect from the LCA work package, and how to make environmental assessment contribute meaningfully to the project's scientific output.

2-0 LCA participates in EU-funded projects primarily as a consortium member, taking responsibility for a defined work package — typically the life cycle assessment component of the project.

We get involved from proposal stage, contributing to the design of the LCA methodology, defining data requirements, and integrating the environmental assessment into the project's broader research questions from the start.