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European Life Cycle Assessment Platform

The EPLCA is the EU’s knowledge base that responds to business and policy needs towards sustainable production and consumption. It supports the methodological development of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for the analysis of supply chains and end-of-life waste management.

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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Zero Pollution
The Environmental Footprint plays a significant role in the ambitious Zero Pollution goal set by the European Commission. Discover more here.

Browse Life Cycle Assessment tools

Member States - Consumption footprint Tool
The Member States - Consumption footprint tool supports EU27 (2020) Member States to calculate their environmental performance over 16 impact categories including,...
LCDN Developer tools
Look@eILCD (LED): Look@eILCD enables the analysis of datasets in the International Reference Life Cycle Data System (ILCD) format directly from the XML data files, without requiring any...
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...