Regulators and purchasers are demanding verifiable statements about the sustainability manufacturer's products. Why?
To respond to these requests, sales teams, product managers, and executives are increasingly looking to sustainability departments to supply product sustainability reports (like Life Cycle Assessments or Environmental Product Declarations).
Existing solutions like spend-based approaches or traditional LCA softwares (like GaBi or SimaPro) lack either actionability or scalability, respectively.
Ecotracer therefore provides a platform to manage product sustainability by:
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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a systematic method for evaluating the environmental impacts of a product, process, or service throughout its entire life cycle, from raw material extraction to disposal. It considers factors such as resource use, energy consumption, emissions, and waste generation to provide insights for sustainable decision-making and product improvement.
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) encompasses a broader scope than greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting. While GHG accounting focuses solely on quantifying greenhouse gas emissions, LCA evaluates a wider range of environmental impacts across multiple categories including resource depletion, energy use, emissions to air, water, and soil, as well as potential impacts on human health and ecosystems throughout a product's life cycle. LCA provides a more comprehensive understanding of the environmental footprint of a product or process, enabling informed sustainability decisions beyond just greenhouse gas emissions.
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) offers a more detailed and comprehensive approach compared to spend-based Scope 3 accounting. Spend-based methods typically rely on aggregate spending data to estimate greenhouse gas emissions associated with purchased goods and services, providing only high-level insights. In contrast, LCA, such as through our solution, allows for detailed process modeling, considering factors like raw material extraction, manufacturing, distribution, and end-of-life disposal, providing a more accurate and nuanced understanding of environmental impacts. This enables identification of specific areas for improvement in products or processes, which may not be captured by spend-based methods.
An Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) is a standardized document summarizing the results of a life cycle assessment (LCA) for a specific product, focusing on its environmental performance. While an LCA usually describes each life cycle phase in detail, an EPD typically presents a condensed version of this information, emphasizing key environmental metrics for specified impact categories.
Certifying your LCAs and EPDs ensures they meet rigorous standards, providing credibility and transparency to consumers and stakeholders. In the EU, where false environmental claims are closely scrutinized to combat greenwashing, certification demonstrates compliance with regulations and builds trust in your product's environmental performance.
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