ESU offers all relevant consulting themes around the topic of life cycle assessment (LCA)
ESU-services offers a wide range of services, consulting, data, software, expertise and review around the topic of life cycle assessment (LCA), environmental product declarations (EPD) and carbon footprints (CF, OCF, PCF). Contact us directly for more information.
Consulting and case studies on LCA:
- LCA case studies on energy systems, biofuels, food, packaging, lifestyles, transport, electronics, materials, construction products, and many other sectors.
- Environmental declarations (EPD), Product Environmental Profile (PEP), Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) and verification of such statements. Development of Product Category Rules (PCR, PEFCR) for EPDs.
- Balance of a company's total emissions including the flow of goods like an organizational life cycle assessment (OLCA) - or corporate carbon footprint (CCF) according to GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard. This is used as a basis for ESRS (European Sustainability Reporting Standards) according to the CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive), other reporting initiatives, or climate target setting.
- Consulting on life cycle and supply chain management.
- Life cycle costing (LCC)
- Project management in ground-breaking life cycle assessment projects such as ecoinvent and the "Life Cycle Assessment of Energy Products".
- Other assessment methods such as CO2-balances (carbon footprint), water footprint, environmental footprint, energy analyses, ecological footprint, biodiversity footprint, or transport balances.
- Material and substance flow analyses (MFA and SFA).
- Environmental extended input-output analysis
- Development of impact assessment methods, e.g. method of ecological scarcity (environmental impact points).
Software for LCA calculations:
- Sales of for the world's leading LCA software SimaPro.
- Automation for LCA and EPD calculation and documentation
- Simplified web tools and Excel parameter models.
Education for environmental managers and the public:
- Training and coaching for LCA software and application.
- Education and training, lectures
- Support for journalists
- Organization of workshops such as the life cycle assessment discussion forum and conferences (International LCA foods conference).
Life cycle inventory data:
- Life cycle inventory analysis, e.g., for oil and gas products for third party databases like ecoinvent, KBOB or CarbonMinds.
- Sales of own and third party life cycle inventory data for various areas of interest (e.g. food production and consumption, energy systems, chemicals or social life cycle assessment).
Review, Verification and Validation:
- Critical review according to ISO 14040, 14044, 14067, and other standards.
- Verification of EPDs according to EN 15804
- Advice on the development of standards for life cycle assessment.
- Articles for scientific journals, review, editor for the Int J LCA.
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