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LCA Guide
If you’re new to Life Cycle Assessments or have conducted hundreds of them—find everything you need to know to measure environmental footprints in our LCA Guide.
What is Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)?
Learn the basics and frameworks that define how we conduct Life Cycle Assessments, including ISO norms and regulations like the Product Environmental Footprint.
Lessons
- LCA Beginners guide
- LCA Webinar Recording: LCA for Beginners
- LCI Databases in LCA: Function & Most-used databases.
- Impact Categories (LCA) – Overview
- ISO 14001 Explained
- CO2 footprint vs. Environmental footprint of products – The main differences
- Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) – A Complete Overview
- Ecodesign Directive for Sustainable Products (ESPR): 2024 Overview
- CSRD – Guide: What to report & How to comply
LCA Goal & Scope
Before you make an LCA, you need to know WHAT & WHY you will measure. Learn how to set your goal & scope.
Lessons
- How to define the Goal & Scope of your LCA
- Cradle-to-cradle: What is it & how does it work in LCA?
- Cradle-to-Gate: What is it & How does it work in LCA?
- Cradle-to-Grave in LCA: What is it & How does it work?
- Scope 1, 2, and 3 Emissions: Overview to Direct and Indirect Emissions
Data Collection for LCA (Life Cycle Inventory)
Learn which data you need to make a Life Cycle Assessment of your product(s).
Lessons
- The data you need to make a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
- LCA Webinar Recording: Data Collection
- Primary vs. secondary data – What’s the best in LCA?
- LCI Databases in LCA: Function & Most-used databases.
- 5 steps to get suppliers on board with sustainability (product LCAs)
- End-of-life (EoL) in LCA: Impacts of waste & benefits of recycling.
- How the EU’s CSRD indirectly hits suppliers too
Impact Assessment: From input data to impact data.
Learn how the actual impact assessments in LCA works! And how LCA software makes your work easier.
Lessons
- From data to impact data: Impact Assessment in LCA (LCIA)
- How to calculate and compare product environmental footprints with Mobius
- Life Cycle Assessment Software Tools – Overview
- Ecochain Help Center Mobius
- Ecochain Help Center Helix
Interpretation: How to interpret your LCA results.
How to perform a sensitivity analysis and analyze your product’s environmental performance.
Lessons
- How to interpret your LCA results
- 5 ways to use LCA to make your business more sustainable
- How ZeroPackaging reduced the carbon footprint of Vodafone’s packaging by 48%
LCA in practice: Reporting, claims & product improvements
How businesses around the world use the results of their Life Cycle Assessments to make an impact.
Lessons
- How to use LCA for credible environmental claims
- How to verify your LCA results
- Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) – Overview
- 4 Steps to create the foundation for credible sustainability reporting
- 5 ways to use LCA to make your business more sustainable
- 5 tips to involve your entire company in sustainable change
- How to sell Sustainability – Collaborating with Marketing & Sales
- All Ecochain customer stories
- Ecodesign – Overview for 2023
- Guide to Ecodesign, sustainable design & circular design
