Life Cycle Assessment and Embodied Carbon Services
Service Overview
We deliver life cycle assessments, carbon footprint assessments and embodied carbon studies that quantify environmental impacts across products, buildings and services.
Typical Activities
- Life cycle assessment
- Embodied carbon assessment
- Environmental product declaration
- Product carbon footprint
- Value chain assessment
- Circular economy assessment
We deliver life cycle assessments, carbon footprint assessments and embodied carbon studies that quantify environmental impacts across products, buildings and services.
Environmental Impact, Carbon Footprint & Life Cycle Assessment
We help organisations understand the environmental impacts of products, buildings and services across their full life cycle. Through life cycle assessments (LCAs), carbon footprint assessments and embodied carbon assessments, we quantify emissions and resource use from raw material extraction through to end-of-life.
We also support the development of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), helping organisations communicate environmental performance and identify opportunities to reduce emissions across the value chain.
Our Approach to Life Cycle Assessment
We deliver assessments ranging from high-level screening studies through to fully ISO-compliant life cycle assessments and verified Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs). Depending on project objectives, assessments can include scenario modelling, additional environmental impact categories and third-party verification, while also supporting reporting, procurement and regulatory requirements.
Why Undertake a Life Cycle Assessment?
A Life Cycle Assessment provides a science-based approach to understanding environmental impacts across the full life cycle of a product, building or service. An LCA can help organisations:
- Identify carbon and environmental hotspots across the value chain.
- Understand trade-offs between materials, processes and design decisions.
- Support product development and improve environmental performance.
- Provide evidence for sustainability claims and Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs).
- Meet customer, procurement and reporting requirements.
- Inform decarbonisation and sustainability strategies.
- Support informed, data-driven decision-making.
Supports Scope 3 Reporting
Life Cycle Assessments are valuable tools for understanding and quantifying Scope 3 emissions across value chains. They help organisations assess upstream and downstream impacts, including raw materials, manufacturing, transport, product use and end-of-life treatment. This approach supports accurate Scope 3 inventories and climate reporting requirements, including AASB S2 disclosures.
Responding to Policy and Market Expectations
Organisations are facing increasing pressure to understand and disclose the environmental impacts of their products and services. This is being driven by initiatives such as the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), sustainable procurement requirements and climate disclosure obligations.
Life cycle assessments provide the evidence needed to respond to these requirements with confidence. In Australia, they support Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), procurement decisions and transparent reporting aligned with emerging domestic and international frameworks.
Decarbonisation Readiness
Carbon footprint assessments provide the foundation for effective decarbonisation by quantifying emissions across products, assets and portfolios. This enables organisations to identify and prioritise reduction opportunities, set meaningful targets and develop credible transition plans.
Eco-Design Enablement
Life Cycle Assessment provides the evidence needed to integrate eco-design principles into product development. By identifying environmental hotspots across the product life cycle, we help organisations understand where the greatest impacts occur and where improvements can be made. The result is more informed product design and lower embodied carbon across the value chain.
General Questions
Who can conduct a life cycle assessment in Australia?
In Australia, life cycle assessments can be conducted by experienced sustainability, climate and carbon consultants, such as our team at Pangolin Associates, who have expertise in assessing environmental impacts across the full life cycle of products, buildings and services. Our team delivers assessments ranging from high-level screening studies through to fully ISO-compliant life cycle assessments (LCAs) and verified Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), depending on your organisation’s objectives and reporting requirements.
What's the connection between LCA and Scope 3 emissions reporting?
LCAs are one of the key tools used to quantify Scope 3 emissions, since they map upstream and downstream impacts across the whole value chain, from raw materials to end-of-life, feeding directly into climate disclosures like AASB S2.
How does carbon footprinting at a product level differ from decarbonisation planning?
Product-level carbon footprint assessments quantify emissions across products, providing more accurate activity data to set reduction targets, measure progress, and build a credible decarbonisation transition plan.
Where do Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) fit into this service?
EPDs are one of the outputs LCA work supports, helping organisations communicate a product's environmental performance transparently to customers, regulators and investors.
Can an LCA help with both product design and compliance at the same time?
Yes, the same underlying data can guide eco-design decisions that lower a product's embodied carbon while also providing the evidence base needed for EPDs, procurement requirements and broader reporting obligations.
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