Zoe Chunyu Miao
LCA practice lead
No Planet B
As industries and societies strive to reduce their ecological footprint, the need for comprehensive tools to evaluate and mitigate environmental impacts has become paramount. One such pivotal instrument is Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).
LCA is a methodology used to evaluate the environmental impacts of a product or service throughout its entire life cycle including raw material extraction, production/manufacturing, distribution/transportation, use/operation, and end-of-life management. It offers a holistic perspective, examining the environmental repercussions. By providing an in-depth analysis of energy and material flows, LCA enables decision-makers to identify sustainable practices and opportunities for improvement, ensuring that efforts toward environmental stewardship are both effective and informed.
An LCA study considers factors like resource use, energy consumption, toxicity, and other potential environmental burdens.
LCA is occasionally applied in a more constrained context. These focused applications may seem new but are grounded in the broader, fundamental principles of LCA. They emphasize the importance of considering the entire life cycle, from cradle to grave, to fully understand and mitigate environmental impacts. Despite their specific lenses, these approaches maintain the core LCA objective: to assess and reduce the environmental burdens associated with all stages of a product’s life or an organization’s activities.
Such applications include, but not limited to:
Scope 3 accounting
LCA is used by businesses, governments, and organizations to better understand the environmental consequences of their products or services, enabling them to make more informed decisions about product design, process optimization, and supply chain management to minimize environmental burdens.
ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 represent the primary standard guidelines issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) concerning LCA. These guidelines establish a standardized approach and framework for conducting life cycle assessments, promoting global uniformity and reliability in their implementation and understanding.
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) involves four primary phases:
eolos aims to pride our clients with science-based and future-oriented LCA to support the product design and business strategy decision-making. We also assist customers to go through the “data jungle” for accurate computation and comprehensive declarations.
LCA practice lead
No Planet B
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