Life Cycle Assessments, Integrated
Conduct rigorous product-level environmental impact assessments without the cost and complexity of traditional LCA consulting. ESG:ONE integrates LCA directly into your ESG data ecosystem — reusing supplier data, emissions factors, and organisational context.
Traditional LCAs are expensive, time-consuming, and disconnected from day-to-day ESG operations. ESG:ONE changes this by embedding LCA capabilities into the same platform where you manage carbon data, supplier information, and regulatory reporting. The result is faster, more affordable assessments that feed directly into your sustainability strategy and disclosure obligations.
Book a DemoWhy Traditional LCA Approaches Don't Scale
Life Cycle Assessments are essential for understanding product-level environmental impact, but traditional approaches are too slow, expensive, and disconnected to meet the growing demand for product transparency.
A single LCA study can cost tens of thousands of pounds and take months to complete — making it impractical to assess more than a handful of products
LCA consultants work in standalone tools that are disconnected from your ESG platform, creating data silos and duplicated effort in collecting supplier and process information
Results from consultant-led LCAs are often delivered as static PDF reports that cannot be updated, compared, or integrated into ongoing reporting workflows
Growing regulatory requirements like the EU's Digital Product Passport and PEF methodology demand product-level environmental data at scale — not one-off studies
Product development and procurement teams lack visibility into environmental trade-offs, making it difficult to design lower-impact products or select sustainable materials
Without standardised LCA workflows, different product teams produce assessments with inconsistent boundaries, assumptions, and data quality — making comparison impossible
Key Benefits
Integrated LCA Workflows
Conduct LCAs within the same platform where you manage your carbon accounting, supplier data, and ESG reporting. Reuse existing emissions factors, supplier-specific data, and organisational context — eliminating the need to recollect information for every assessment.
Product Carbon Footprints
Calculate product-level carbon footprints using cradle-to-gate, cradle-to-grave, or cradle-to-cradle system boundaries. Support for the GHG Protocol Product Standard and EU Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) methodology ensures regulatory and market alignment.
Streamlined Assessment Process
Guided workflows walk users through system boundary definition, data collection, impact calculation, and interpretation. Pre-configured templates for common product types accelerate the process while maintaining methodological rigour.
Comprehensive Factor Databases
Access ecoinvent, ELCD, ADEME, and other leading LCA databases directly within the platform. Combine generic database factors with supplier-specific primary data to progressively improve the accuracy of your product assessments.
Product Comparison & Hotspots
Compare environmental impacts across product variants, materials, and suppliers to identify improvement opportunities. Automated hotspot analysis highlights the life cycle stages and processes that contribute most to environmental impact.
Regulatory & Market Compliance
Generate LCA outputs that meet the requirements of EU PEF, ISO 14040/14044, EPD programmes, and emerging Digital Product Passport regulations. Ensure your product environmental claims are substantiated and defensible.
Platform Capabilities
LCA Methodology
- ISO 14040/14044 compliant assessment framework with configurable system boundaries
- Support for cradle-to-gate, cradle-to-grave, and cradle-to-cradle system boundaries
- Multiple impact categories including climate change, water use, resource depletion, and ecotoxicity
- Allocation methods for multi-output processes including mass, economic, and system expansion
- Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis to understand the robustness of results
Database Integration
- Direct integration with ecoinvent, ELCD, GaBi, and ADEME LCA databases
- Supplier-specific primary data integration from ESG:ONE's supplier management module
- Custom process creation for proprietary manufacturing steps and internal operations
- Automatic factor updates when database providers release new versions
- Data quality indicators following PEF and ISO data quality requirements
Product Comparison & Analysis
- Side-by-side comparison of product variants, materials, and design alternatives
- Automated hotspot analysis identifying the largest contributors to environmental impact
- Scenario modelling for material substitution, supplier changes, and process improvements
- Contribution analysis showing the relative impact of each life cycle stage
- Benchmarking against industry averages and product category rules where available
Reporting & Disclosure
- Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) generation following EN 15804 and programme operator rules
- EU Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) compliant reporting outputs
- Digital Product Passport data preparation for upcoming EU regulatory requirements
- Integration with corporate carbon accounting for product-level contribution analysis
- Customer-facing product sustainability data sheets and marketing-ready summaries
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Supplier ESG Management
Collect supplier-specific environmental data that feeds directly into product LCAs, improving data quality and assessment accuracy.
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Connect product-level carbon footprints to your organisational greenhouse gas inventory for comprehensive emissions management.
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End-to-end supply chain sustainability from supplier assessment through product LCA and Scope 3 emissions management.
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