Sustainable development is currently one of the key objectives of the European Union, national governments and societies as a whole. But how can companies identify the

• environmental,
• social,
• economic

challenges inherent in their daily activities and address these in their development strategy ?

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a powerful tool that enables companies to respond to these challenges by providing insight on the following questions :

• What are the environmental impacts of the company’s activities ?
• How can the company’s activities become more sustainable ?
• How can the company best achieves previously fixed objectives such as the reduction of Greenhouse Gases ?

LCA is a standardized method for the evaluation of environmental performance and quantifying impacts of products or services. LCA guides companies in the set up and implementation of a comprehensive environmental strategy and produces the data necessary to communicate the achieved results.