Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
Your products or services generate environmental impacts: a life-cycle assessment will be your go-to study to quantify them.
What is it
Life-cycle assessment is an analysis of the stages of a product or service, aimed at quantifying its impacts on the environment, from raw material extraction to transportation, processing, use and recycling
The goal
To measure and address impact categories of a product/service, such as climate change, ozone depletion and water consumption
What’s the process like
1. Goal definition and scope
2. Inventory analisys
3. Impact assessment
4. Interpretation
Deliverables
Obtain a deep understanding of the impacts of your product in each stage of its life.
Benchmark your results against the market or against a target for better future decision-making
BENEFITS
Why you should do a life-cycle assessment
Carbon neutral product
Understanding the impacts of your product or service is the first step toward the development of carbon neutral products
Compliance
There are different angles to look at environmental compliance, mainly regulatory, client and market demanded. Performing an LCA will make you compliance-ready
One LCA, multiple benefits
By performing an LCA, there are many benefits in return: better decisions on procurement strategies; factual data-sets for marketing and communication strategies; identify supply chain opportunities and improve design decisions
SERVICES
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Company sustainability assessment
It’s the beginning of the journey toward decarbonisation: identify your company impacts.
Supply chain sustainability assessment
The strategic importance of knowing how your company supply chain is structured.
Company Goals alignment
Sustainability practices and goals need to be accurate as well as enduring.
Research & Development
Refocus R&D toward creating sustainable innovations to accelerate the climate transition