Product portfolio LCA
We provide portfolio life cycle assessments that cover the life cycle impacts for the entire product portfolio for a company or an industry. Portfolio LCAs can also be made as Environmental Profit & Loss accounts (E P&L), where the environmental impacts are fully monetarised, or as Natural Capital Accounts with a focus on natural capital impacts (see more below).
Projects
- Towards Net Zero for Global Logistics
2.-0 LCA consultants supports Maersk to fulfil their net zero pledge for 2040, that has recently been rated as the pledge with most integrity. - State of the Art of EEIO Analysis Applied to Circular Economy
The aim of this project is to carry out a state of the art of the EEIO analyses applied to circular economy (CE) for ADEME (French Environmental Agency). A critical review is performed on the studies published in this area. The potential to reuse the advances from the research community is assessed. - Life Cycle Assessment of Palm Oil at United Plantations Berhad
This ongoing project aims to presents regular summaries of detailed life cycle assessments (LCA) of the palm oil production at United Plantations Berhad (Teluk Intan, Malaysia). - Climate footprints for a national sports organisation October 2023
This project provides Danmarks Idrætsforbund (DIF) with a baseline climate footprint for the year 2019 and an updated climate footprint for the year 2022. The entire organisation was analysed to enable DIF to plan, execute, and monitor reductions in their climate impact. - LCA Tool for Danish Crown June 2023
The aim of this project was to provide a proprietary LCA tool in relation to the production of pork and beef at farm gate and at slaughterhouse gate. - Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Kangamiut Seafood Products November 2021
A cradle to consumer consequential life cycle assessment was conducted of 3 seafood products from Kangamiut Seafood, namely of: Atlantic cod, Cooked and peeled prawns and shell-on prawns. Additionally, screenings of carbon offsetting options were conducted. - LCA of Løgismose Meyers’ Product Portfolio in 2018 & 2019 March 2021
This project entails a detailed comparative cradle-to-grave life cycle assessment of Løgismose Meyers’ product portfolio. - Total Resource Flows and Environmental Impacts December 2020
An inventory including both a mass and energy flow analysis and a life cycle screening is performed for the region Northern Jutland. The inventory provides both a production perspective and a consumer perspective. - Life Cycle Assessment of Organic Residues Recycling at DAKA April 2020
A comparative LCA of individual product lines was performed for Daka’s treatment services of by-products from slaughterhouses, fallen stock (animals that died on farm) and food waste. Furthermore total product portfolio LCAs for 2018/2019 were calculated. - Total Material and Energy Flows Marts 2019
An inventory including both a mass and energy flow analysis and a life cycle screening is performed for Kolding Municipality. The inventory provides both a production perspective and a consumer perspective. - Environmental Impacts of Alcoholic Beverages December 2016
The purpose of the study was to document the total environmental impact of the product portfolio of the alcohol monopolies. The environmental impacts was expressed in monetary units, in addition to the underlying physical units. - E P&L for Arla Foods May 2016
An Environmental Profit & Loss account (E P&L) was conducted by Arla Foods, the third largest dairy cooperative in the world, with the aim of documenting the total environmental impact of Arla Foods. - E P&L for Sollentuna Municipality December 2014
The Municipality of Sollentuna (Sweden) has previously used LCA to estimate the environmental footprint of their activities. In this study we used the same data to estimate the Environmental Profit & Loss. The overall project results are published in a report. - E P&L on the Danish Apparel Consumption October 2014
This project consisted of an industrial E P&L for the Danish apparel consumption conducted across three levels: industry, company/brand and product. - Denmark’s Carbon Footprint March 2014
A new estimate of a Danish Carbon Footprint and a review of previous studies. - Environmental Profit and Loss Account (E P&L) for Novo Nordisk February 2014
This project was a collaborative effort, looking into Novo Nordisk's value chain, leading to the first Novo Nordisk Environmental Profit and Loss Account (E P&L). - Corporate Carbon Footprint January 2014
The purpose of this project was to provide an overview of DuPont N&H’s total CO2e emissions (the so-called organizational carbon footprint) to enable decision-making and prioritization in their environmental work. - Monetary Valuation
In 2006 we developed our first life cycle impact assessment method with option for full monetarisation of all impact categories. Now we are updating it and offer everyone to join the further developments the field of monetary valuation in our Monetarisation Club.
Product portfolio life cycle assessments (OLCA)
A product portfolio LCA, also called an organisational LCA (O-LCA) or an Organisation Environmental Footprint (OEF), can be described as an environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) of all the products in the portfolio of an organisation.
A product portfolio LCA is therefore the basis for assuming full responsibility of environmental performance of the organisation and its value chain. The comprehensive knowledge of environmental hotspots is crucial to identify and plan impact reduction opportunities as well as to track environmental performance over time and to inform corporate sustainability reporting.
A product portfolio LCA is not used for comparisons between organisations since each organisation is inherently unique, even within the same sector.
A product portfolio LCA can be performed with a focus on a specific impact (like GHG) or be framed to consider multiple impact categories. The chosen impacts categories are mostly presented in absolute values for the whole organization and/or divisions and facilities.
The ISO/TS 14072 extends the scope for the functional unit and reference flow of anLCA, but else the well-known principles and requirements of ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 for product LCA are followed also for product portfolio LCAs. Read more here: UNEP (2015) Guidance on Organizational Life Cycle and JRC’s Organisation Environmental Footprint (OEF) Guide.
E P&L
An Environmental Profit & Loss account (E P&L) complements the normal Product & Loss account of a company with an account of the monetarised the external benefits and costs related to the life cycle of the product portfolio of the company. It can be described as a product portfolio LCA with monetary valuation of the impacts.
An E P&L thus goes beyond the product gates, beyond the individual products, and beyond the typical multi-indicator approaches to the full life cycle, to the full product portfolio and to full monetary valuation of the environmental impacts. The first acknowledged corporate E P&L was published by PUMA with their: “PUMA’s Environmental Profit and Loss Account for the year ended 31 December 2010”. In cooperation with Trucost and NIRAS we were among the first consultancies to provide E P&Ls. Our particular strength is that we provide detailed environmental inventories that are fully mass, energy and water balanced, which is a good measure of their completeness and consistency, and essential if the results are to be used for practical decision-making.
Natural Capital Accounts (NCA)
Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) is sometimes used as a synonym for E P&L, but can also be defined more narrowly as that part of an EP&L that is concerned with natural capital impacts, dependencies and assets. Natural capital covers all abiotic natural resources (minerals, soils, air, water) as well as biodiversity and other ecosystem resources that provide us with ‘ecosystem services’. Natural capital is thus an extension of the economic notion of manufactured capital (products which enable the production of more products) and an NCA provides a monetary valuation of the impacts on these capital assets.