Product Life Cycle Assessment Checklist

Assessment overview

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Use checklist completion and section status together: checked items show task progress, while status shows the current working state.

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Getting started

Six-stage LCA workflow

Goal & Scope Definition

Set the decision context, intended users, boundaries, and methodological choices before gathering data.

Document the study purpose, intended application, and decision it will support.

Identify intended audiences and whether comparative claims will be made publicly.

Define system boundary, cut-off rules, allocation approach, and study time period.

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Product System & Functional Unit

Describe what the product delivers and map the life cycle processes needed to deliver that function.

Define a measurable functional unit and reference flow.

Map material, manufacturing, distribution, use, and end-of-life stages.

Confirm product variants, geography, use assumptions, and service lifetime.

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Life Cycle Inventory

Collect, document, and quality-check the energy, material, transport, emissions, and waste data.

Create a data collection plan with suppliers, owners, units, and required time periods.

Capture primary data and identify secondary datasets used to fill gaps.

Record data sources, transformations, assumptions, and quality limitations.

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Impact Assessment

Select relevant impact categories and apply methods that fit the study’s geography and purpose.

Select impact categories and characterization methods appropriate to the goal and scope.

Check model completeness, consistency, and the suitability of impact factors.

Run calculations and retain traceable results by life cycle stage.

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Interpretation & Hotspots

Turn results into defensible findings by identifying material drivers, uncertainty, and improvement opportunities.

Identify hotspots by process, life cycle stage, and impact category.

Test key assumptions through sensitivity, scenario, or uncertainty checks.

Develop improvement opportunities without overstating certainty or causality.

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Reporting & Review

Prepare a transparent report that communicates methods, limitations, results, and review needs.

Document methods, datasets, assumptions, exclusions, and limitations clearly.

Match conclusions and recommendations to the defined goal and evidence available.

Determine the appropriate internal, external, or independent critical review route.

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Planning dashboard

Capture the judgement calls and follow-up work that make an LCA more transparent, credible, and useful.

Key assumptions

Data-quality concerns

Hotspots identified

Next actions

Shareable checkpoint

LCA planning summary

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