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Scientific Integrity for Environmental Decisions

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A translator of LCA results, what drives them, and what can be compared or claimed safely.

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Flagship project
Life Cycle Decision (LCD)

Overview

The Institute provides a bridge between scientific evidence and its meaning for decisions, without collapsing complexity into oversimplified conclusions. It develops governance frameworks, environmental data platforms, and indicators that help guide policy, track progress, and support clear, responsible use of environmental information across products, companies, and public decision-making.

Flagship project

Decision Governance

Life Cycle Decision (LCD)

Making LCA results understandable, comparable, and safe to communicate

Problem

LCA-related results are often too technical to use safely outside expert circles. LCD helps understand what results mean, what drives them, and how comparison or claims can become reliable.

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Scope
  • Green claims (ESG, green labels)
  • Investor claims (Avoided emissions, circular economy, climate solutions)
  • Product passports (LCA, EPD, PEF/OEF)
Science
  • Contribution-to-result gate
  • Comparability gate
  • Trade-Offs gate
  • Conditional-claim gate
  • Damage-transition gate
  • Evidence-upgrade gate
Outputs
  • Trade-offs transparency
  • Comparability check
  • Claim safety and ranking
  • Evidence mapping
  • Decision support
  • Reporting guardrails
  • Investment underwriting
Impact — social
  1. Avoided greenwashing risk
  2. Lower investment risk
  3. Responsible use of data beyond LCA experts
  4. Case-studies teaching LCA at Business Schools
Impact — environmental
  1. Improves the defensibility of environmental decisions
  2. Transparency of trade-offs between environmental impacts
  3. Tights virtual footprint data with modelling context
LCA interpretationTrade-OffsClaim safetyProduct passportsGreen claimsInvestment evidence
From EPDs to Product Passports: The Regulatory Architecture of Life Cycle-Based Environmental Information.Environmental Evidence for Investment: Why LCA Results Cannot Be Used Without Governance.

Implementation lens

Decision Governance

LCA-related results are often too technical to use safely outside expert circles. LCD helps understand what results mean, what drives them, and how comparison or claims can become reliable.

  • Green claims (ESG, green labels)
  • Investor claims (Avoided emissions, circular economy, climate solutions)
  • Product passports (LCA, EPD, PEF/OEF)
Life Cycle Decision (LCD) illustration

Detail

LCA-related results are often too technical to use safely outside expert circles. LCD helps understand what results mean, what drives them, and how comparison or claims can become reliable.

  • Trade-offs transparency
  • Comparability check
  • Claim safety and ranking
  • Evidence mapping
  • Decision support
  • Reporting guardrails
  • Investment underwriting
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