Impact focus area
Environmental governance
From complex environmental data to transparent evidence and decisions
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
Life Cycle Decision (LCD)
Making LCA results understandable, comparable, and safe to communicate
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)
- Contribution-to-result gate
- Comparability gate
- Trade-Offs gate
- Conditional-claim gate
- Damage-transition gate
- Evidence-upgrade gate
- Trade-offs transparency
- Comparability check
- Claim safety and ranking
- Evidence mapping
- Decision support
- Reporting guardrails
- Investment underwriting
- Avoided greenwashing risk
- Lower investment risk
- Responsible use of data beyond LCA experts
- Case-studies teaching LCA at Business Schools
- Improves the defensibility of environmental decisions
- Transparency of trade-offs between environmental impacts
- Tights virtual footprint data with modelling context
Decision Governance
Projects in development
Environmental results are often too technical to use safely outside expert circles. Institute helps understand what results mean, what drives them, and how decisions can become reliable.
- EU taxonomyAdvisory on meeting technical criteria for Green/Blue projects
- Sustainable finance alignmentGreen/Blue Bonds advisory