Life Cycle Assessment is regarded as the best framework for assessing the potential environmental impacts of products. Explore the methodology, discover LCA projects, and more.
What we do
The European Platform on Life Cycle Assessment provides harmonised methods, data, and tools to integrate life cycle thinking into EU policy and business practice. Specifically, it aims to:
- Develop and harmonise methodologies (e.g. Environmental Footprint) for robust policy use
- Provide access to databases, tools, and case studies supporting sustainable production and consumption
- Supply evidence for major EU frameworks such as the Green Deal, Circular Economy Action Plan, and Farm to Fork Strategy
- Support all stages of the policy cycle, ensuring coherence across initiatives
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How can you measure the environmental performance of your product or organisation? We worked on developing specific methodologies known as the Environmental Footprint.
Life cycle assessment is widely used to assess the impacts of products along their value chains. Discover our contributions to product policy making in the EU.
Explore the Consumption Footprint framework: developed by the JRC, this method quantifies and monitors the environmental impacts of EU production and consumption.
Find out how we track the food systems' environmental impacts adopting a systemic perspective and a life cycle thinking approach.
Browse European Platform Life Cycle Assessment (EPLCA) tools
Explore the environmental impacts of EU consumption across 16 impact categories, from climate change and land use to resource use and pollution. The Consumption Footprint Platform lets...
