An LCA study will provide you with detailed insights into the supply chain of your product or service, and its overall environmental footprint. This makes LCA particularly good for documentation, decision-making and building Trust in your company.
All LCAs start with a Goal and scope definition: Clearly define the purpose of the study, the product system to be assessed, the functional unit (the reference unit for comparison), system boundaries, and the environmental impacts to be evaluated.
Whether you are exploring LCA for the first time or looking to deepen your existing practices, We guide you through every step and ensure that your LCA follows the standards and methods most appropriate for your needs, so you end up with the right data to make the most effective decisions.
An LCA is only valuable if it's used to drive real change. Once the study is complete, we help you translate the insights into concrete improvements to your system. Based on your product's unique profile, we deliver tailored advice that identifies the most effective ways to reduce your environmental impact.
We always aim to deliver reports that are directly applicable to decision-making. To ensure you fully understand what your LCA tells you, we offer support through on-site presentations, webinars, or 1-1 consultations. We guide you through all aspects of the system and are happy to help measure and document the tangible difference your actions make.
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has become the gold standard for measuring sustainability impacts. It gives us a complete picture by looking at every stage of a product's life cycle and relating impacts to the actual functions of products and services. This holistic view helps us compare different options and identify the most sustainable path forward.
The value of LCA lies in its ability to support better decisions. It should help us understand which choices will reduce future environmental impacts. To do this effectively, LCA needs to focus on causality—the links between our choices and their effects.
Understanding these causal relationships is crucial. The consequences of our decisions are often complex and unintuitive, so we need robust methods that can capture this complexity. Only then can we make informed decisions about the future.
Unfortunately, many current LCAs take a different approach. They focus on mapping past emissions rather than predicting future consequences. These backward-looking models isolate products from their real-world context, which can be useful for historical documentation but problematic for decision-making.
When used to guide choices, retrospective LCAs risk answering the wrong questions. They describe what has already happened rather than what will happen as a result of our decisions. For LCA to fulfil its purpose as a decision-making tool, it must look forward, not backward.
