LCA of Organizations (Flagship 1c)
Life Cycle Assessment is now frequently applied to products, but has not yet been established as common practice in organizations. Several initiatives in the last few years have promoted the use of LCA within an organizational scope, mainly in the assessment of individual environmental impacts such as GHG emissions and water. Those documents and the experience acquired while preparing them laid the ground for moving towards a broader definition of ‘LCA of Organizations’.
A project group within the UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative has been set up to proactively contribute to demonstrating the benefits and potential of the Life Cycle Approach and to support the recently launched project to develop a standard for LCA of organizations, (ISO 14072) by the International Organization for Standardisation.
For more info, contact the flagship co-chairs Matthias Finkbeiner and Atsushi Inaba, or the coordinator, Julia Martínez Blanco.
Flagship activity updates
Updating the Social LCA Guidelines
Towards an updated Guidelines for Social LCA – Scale up and road testing of Social LCA & Social Organizational LCA (S-LCA & SOLCA) Over the past decade and since the…
O-LCA Road testing publication launched!
Experiences of 12 road testers with O-LCA application now available for download The report ‘Road testing organizational life cycle assessment around the world: Applications, experiences and lessons learned’ is now...
LC Net for Jan/Feb 2017 published
We’ve just published the January-February edition of the LC Net. Stories in the first edition for 2017: Promoting global consensus on Life Cycle Impact Assessment Indicators: new publication launched with…
Road-testing update and five new frontrunner organizations
Over the last months, eight frontrunner organizations have been testing the „Guidance on Organizational Life Cycle Assessment“, developed in the first phase of the flagship activity „LCA of Organizations“. All…
Strong Life Cycle Initiative presence at Ecobalance 2016: Join us!
EcoBalance 2016, the 12th Biennial Conference on EcoBalance 3-6 October / Kyoto, Japan This biennial conference series is about methodologies and practices for sustainability based life-cycle thinking. The 2016 theme,…
Frontrunner organizations road-testing the O-LCA Guidance
Since the launch of the “Guidance on Organizational Life Cycle Assessment”, the document and the methodology itself have undergone a road testing process. The road testing phase is a key step...
Organizational LCA videos
Matthias Finkbeiner speaks about the launch of the O-LCA Guidance publication At LCM in Bordeaux, Matthias Finkbeiner, co-chair of the LCA of Organizations flagship, speaks about the benefits of O-LCA...
O-LCA road testing
Call for O-LCA road testing proposals The next step is to road test the guidance document in about 10 real organizations. By applying Organizational LCA to those organizations we aim…
Guidance on O-LCA launched
Guidance on Organizational Life Cycle Assessment published Nearly 70 participants of the flagship working group have been drafting and validating the “Guidance on Organizational Life Cycle Assessment” over the past…