The Power of Life Cycle Assessment: Data Driven Decision Making for Environmental Sustainability

How can LCA be applied to your organization?What benefits can you expect?And when is LCA even the right tool?LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) is a profoundly powerful approach that can provide unparalleled insights into how to make more sustainable decisions. However, this power can often come at the cost of complexity and detail. To properly leverage the power of LCA, one must first understand how LCA can be implemented as part of an overall sustainability strategy.Written by leading sustainability experts, The Power of Life Cycle Assessment: Data Driven Decision Making for Environmental Sustainability addresses the key concepts of LCA as well as why and how it can be a powerful tool for your organization.You will also learn how to:Incorporate LCA into the sustainability strategy of a product, service, or technology.Understand the various LCA approaches in order to choose the one that best applies to your organization.Identify the pitfalls to avoid and where to find additional knowledge.Familiarize yourself with the international standards that apply and the software and data sets that are available.Ensure that your LCA study is credible and robust.Drive innovation to address not only resource use, but the full range of environmental and social impacts LCA results can inform.Use uncertain data sets to support sustainable decisions when communicating results.Leverage the results of your LCA study to support product or technology development, marketing, policy support, or other forms of stakeholder engagement.LCA places sustainable production and consumption in the context of finite resources. From this perspective, LCA has the power to provide insights to inform critical decision making as our species contemplates its future on our home, this delicate planet Earth.Purchase The Power of Life Cycle Assessment today and make a difference to both your organization and the planet. Read more