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European Platform on Life Cycle Assessment

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.

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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.

European Platform Life Cycle Assessment (EPLCA)

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Product Environmental Footprint

The Environmental Footprint is a set of methodologies to assess the environmental performance of products and organisations. The Joint Research Centre helps to:

  • support the development of the EF, building methods and data based on the International Life Cycle Data format
  • define the requirements to perform EF studies
  • provide valuable and up-to-date data

For more policy-oriented information, you can visit the Environmental Footprint page hosted by DG ENV.

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Environmental Footprint - Transition Phase

In this page, we recapitulate the key documents provided by the JRC in support of the Environmental Footprint's transition phase.

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