Anthesis is a global leader in delivering actionable Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) for organisations across sectors with a team of industry-leading experts.

LCAs can be either environmentally or socially focused, and follow a systematic framework to identify risks and opportunities, and to enable tangible improvements.

Our team of LCA experts focus on how the LCA results can be actioned to drive tangible improvements for our clients. For example, Anthesis services can include curated strategy sessions to help you understand how LCAs can support your goals.

Life Cycle Assessment Services  

We have experience with all major LCA methodologies and software systems and can support organisations with comprehensive and complete frameworks bespoke to their organisational circumstances. Our Life Cycle Assessments align with internationally accredited compliance and regulatory processes, including ISO 14040,14044 and 14075.

Life Cycle Assessments

Anthesis works with clients to determine what type of LCA meets their objectives, we then identify the correct level of rigour and study goal and scope to meet those objectives.

Screening or Streamlined LCA: Applies the general principles of LCA to quickly identify materials and processes that contribute the most to the environmental footprint of a product or service. Anthesis can complete screening LCAs on a single product or group of products to provide an initial comparison of product/service alternatives.

  • Suitable for internal decision making and exploration
  • Can support business-to-business communications
  • Not to be used to make specific public comparative claims

ISO Compliant Assessments: Can align to a range of standards including ISO 14040, 14044, 14067, and 14075. Anthesis also completes environmental product declarations (EPDs) and PEF compliant studies.

  • ISO compliant studies are suitable for public comparative claims once third-party reviewed.

Portfolio Level LCA: For clients who want to produce LCAs at scale for a whole portfolio or range of products, Anthesis offers PortfolioPro, our digital LCA software solution that enables clients to undertake LCA at scale across their products or procurement programmes.

Industry Level LCA: Anthesis works with business member groups and consortia, applying a life-cycle approach to measure environmental impacts across entire sectors. The results provide a benchmark and evidence base for developing industry-wide sustainability strategies and reduction targets.

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Additional Services

Our consultants, strategists, analysts, and educators provide a range of additional LCA services, including the following:

Education and capacity building: We offer customized LCA training and education to help you build internal capacity to understand and undertake LCAs in-house.

Communication: Anthesis helps clients communicate LCA results effectively and defensibly to meet stakeholder engagement objectives in the public domain or B2B.

Reviews: Anthesis can act as third party independent critical LCA reviewers. Anthesis assesses LCAs for compliance with ISO and provides critical reviewer statements, we also review LCA tools and LCA methodologies.

Support with Scope 3 Calculations: Anthesis can support clients to improve their GHG inventory by integrating life cycle approaches into Scope 3 calculations.

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What is a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)?

LCA is a systematic framework for quantifying the environmental and social impacts of products, services, or systems across their entire life cycle. LCA can be used to analyse and compare the impact of different scenarios. With these results, impact hotspots can be identified across the life cycle to reduce the footprint of products services or systems. This can inform innovation and solutions to reduce environmental and social impact across a multitude of different impacts.

Why conduct an LCA?

LCA has emerged as an essential and widely recognised science-based framework for better understanding the impacts of products, services, and systems. The growth of LCA coincides with a surge of legislation across the globe designed to improve compliance, efficiency, and management of products. LCA is an invaluable tool for companies looking to achieve their sustainability goals. Completing an LCA can also help to inform strategic decision-making and create business value.

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  • Inform strategic decision making with LCA results that avoid trade-offs between different environmental impacts.  
  • Guide and stimulate product innovation, in line with your sustainability goals.  
  • Objectively communicate the environmental impact of a product in a way that avoids greenwashing claims.  
  • Understand how to reduce impacts towards company sustainable goals, such as Net Zero and value chains free of forced labor. LCAs support procurement teams to understand and assess which suppliers provide the most sustainable and ethical options.
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A Guide to Life Cycle Assessments

Download the guide to explore everything about LCAs—what they are, why they matter, how to conduct one, and how to use the results effectively.

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Dive Deeper

Learn more about the basics of LCA, its importance in evaluating environmental impacts across product life cycles, and how digital tools such as Anthesis PortfolioPro are revolutionising LCA scalability and accuracy in our recent podcast episodes.

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