Life Cycle Assessment methods 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.
Environmental Footprint How can you measure the environmental performance of your product or organisation? The JRC helped develop specific methodologies known as the Environmental Footprint.
Product policies Life cycle assessment methodologies are widely used in assessing the impacts of products along their value chains. Here is an overview of our main contributions to product...
Sustainable consumption The JRC’s work on sustainable consumption centres on its Consumption Footprint framework, applying life cycle assessment (LCA) to quantify the environmental impacts of EU consumption.
Food systems The transition to a fair, healthy, and environmentally friendly food system is strongly supported by EU policies. We track the food systems' environmental impacts adopting a systemic perspective...
Zero Pollution The Environmental Footprint plays a significant role in the ambitious Zero Pollution goal set by the European Commission. Discover more here.
International Life Cycle Data system The ISO 14040 and 14044 standards provide an important framework for LCA. This framework, however, leaves the individual experts, practitioners and data developers, with a range of important choices that can...
Consumption Footprint Platform The European Commission has developed a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)-based framework to monitor the evolution of the overall environmental footprint of EU production and consumption and compare the footprint against...
Consumption Footprint Platform - Member States The Member States - Consumption footprint tool supports EU27 (2020) Member States to calculate their environmental performance over 16 impact categories including,...
Ecotox Explorer The EF3.1 Ecotox Explorer purpose is to support EF3.1 users to understand how freshwater ecotoxicity CFs have been derived and which underlying data have been...
