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.
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.
The production of goods all comes at an environmental cost. Through the carbon footprint, we assess the pollution related to certain products, to help policy makers steer the industry towards a more sustainable economy.
We helped develop specific environmental requirements for:
The JRC provided technical support to define environmental requirements for the production of photovoltaic panels. It directly informs the measures as specified in the EU's Ecodesign Directive.
The JRC provides technical support to the definition of rules on the carbon footprint of batteries, as outlined in the EU Batteries Regulation.
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