Product LCA Tools
These tools can assist with sustainability decision making from product and /or project level. They are suitable for businesses to understand their sustainability performances and impacts, discover “hotspots” in process; and also helps stakeholders making better informed decisions.
| Company | Description | Weblink | Cost |
| Granta Design | A comprehensive database of materials engineering, process, and eco data in order to assess environmental impact and risks in products and product designs.
Useful for companies >2yrs and investors. Application: company level |
Grant Design | Dependant on service required |
| Makersite | The largest, integrated product management platform on the web. That includes all-in-one data, apps and community for eco-design and product stewardship. Made for entrepreneurs, engineers and product teams. Join for free if you make, buy, sell or research products.
Useful for startups, companies >2yrs and investors. Application: company level |
Makersite | Dependant on service required |
| Selerant | Ecodex: Eco-design software that allows food companies to improve the sustainability of their new products or existing portfolio, in a cost-effective and simple way. EcodEX allows product developers to easily make a sustainability assessment of a product, based on the evaluation of carbon footprint, water use, energy use, land use and other criteria.
Useful for startups, companies >2yrs and investors Application: company level |
Selerant | Dependant on service required |
| Bionova | One Click LCA is the only LCA software to ever receive a Mat 01 100% rating for BREEAM and is compliant with more than 20 other Green Building certifications, including LEED, DGNB, and Energie Carbone. Thanks to our easy to use interface and BIM automation, you can calculate your building’s Life-Cycle Assessment in one hour.
Useful for startups, companies >2yrs and investors Application: company, product and service levels. |
One Click LCA | Dependant on service required |
| Ecofolio | Paper Metrics® is an IT application developed by Ecofolio, the French Paper PRO (Produce Responsibility Organisation), a non-profit private company entrusted by French authorities. Ecofolio is responsible for paper recycling in France. Suppliers of printed products traditionally include information on quality, cost and deadlines on their quotations. Thanks to Paper Metrics®, the quotations will now also feature the environmental footprint of the product.
Useful for startups and companies >2yrs Application: company, product and service levels. |
Paper Metrics | Dependant on service required |
| Solidforest | Air.e HdC is a professional software tool designed for Carbon Footprint experts to help them in calculating and assessing GHG emissions of organizations, products, services, events, and projects using a life cycle approach. Air.e HdC has been developed to follow international standards such as ISO 14040, PAS 2050, GHG Protocol, ISO 14064, ISO 14064 and ISO 14069.
Useful for startups and companies >2yrs Application: company, product and service levels. |
Air.e HdC | Dependant on service required |
| EcoMundo | CORINE is a web-based ecodesign tool, quickly assesses the environmental profile of products and facilitates the integration of the ecodesign approach in companies – from SME’s to large companies – thanks to an ergonomic design. The platform incorporates a supply chain vision by sharing projects with partners and thus helping collaborative decision making.
Useful for startups, companies >2yrs and procurement Application: company, product and service levels. |
CORINE | Dependant on service required |
| AIB | European Residual Electricity Mixes – a reliable disclosure of electricity consumption where Guarantees of Origin are not used. Consumers can demand electricity based on the electricity’s environmental attributes (e.g. origin and GHG emissions) through the voluntary purchase of GOs. According to the Electricity Market Directive, all electricity suppliers are required to disclose their electricity portfolio, specifying the emissions of CO2 and the amount of radioactive waste.
Useful for startups, companies >2yr, investors, political community and procurement. Application: company, product and service levels. |
European Residual Electricity Mixes | Dependant on service required |
| ECODESIGN Company | Web application for the assessment of the product carbon footprint developed by the ECODESIGN company. Its intuitive structure follows a life cycle thinking approach, by showing the product’s life cycle stages for materials, manufacture, distribution, use, and end of life. ECODESIGN+ uses ecoinvent data and can interoperate with CAD programs for product modelling.
Useful for startups and companies >2yrs Application: product and service levels. |
Eco Design+ | Free demo included moving to a subscription |
| RDC Environment | Instant LCA Packaging – Innovative eco-design and eco-labelling tool, enabling non-experts to easily and instantly evaluate the environmental impacts of their packaging. The first tool to use pre-integrated LCA models based on ISO standards and recognised LCA databases, it guarantees reliable results.
Useful for startups and companies >2yrs Application: product and service levels. |
RDC Environment | Free |
| ADEME | Bilan Produit – Free tool helping to assess and therefore reduce the environmental impact of a product.
Useful for startups and companies >2yrs Application: product and service levels. |
Bilan Produit | Free |
| University of Manchester | CCaLC – Consists of a number of carbon footprinting tools for calculating and reducing the carbon footprints of different industrial sectors along complete supply chains.
Useful for startups and companies >2yrs Application: product and service levels. |
CCaLC | Free |
| HES-SO | ECO-BAT 4.0 – Independent tool with which you can very quickly model a building and perform a thorough life cycle impacts assessment.
Useful for startups and companies >2yrs Application: product and service levels. |
Eco Batch | Dependant on service required |
| Swedish Transport Administration | Klimatkalkyl – Swedish transport administration’s model for energy and climate calculations of transport infrastructure in a life cycle perspective. It can be used as a tool for decision support, as basis for project improvements, and for providing consistent following-up of projects and plans.
Useful for startups, companies >2yrs and procurement. Application: company, product and service levels. |
Klimatkalkyl | Free moving to paid subscription |
| LCA Calculator Ltd | Fast, user-friendly, life cycle analysis software, that helps designers and engineers to understand, analyse and compare environmental impacts of their products to help make ‘greener’ design decisions. Key Benefits include: Quick carbon footprint analysis, easy to understand, comparable results, cloud based life cycle software – nothing to install.
Useful for startups, companies >2yrs and political community. Application: company level. |
LCA Calculator | Dependant on company size |
| Aveny GmbH | LCA4Waste – Decision support tool to analyse and compare the environmental impact of waste management in energy intensive industries and in dedicated waste treatment processes. It is a Microsoft Excel-based computer program available free of charge (with a reduced set of LCIA indicators; based on ecoinvent v2.2), developed by the Chair of Ecological Systems Design, ETH Zurich. Aveny GmbH was assigned to maintain the tool.
Useful for startups and companies >2yrs Application: company, product and service levels. |
LCA4Waste | Free |
| EarthShift Global | Earth Smart – Flexible, web-based tool for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) – evaluating the environmental impacts of a product or service across its entire life cycle, from raw materials to disposal and recycling. EarthSmart LCA software has the power, depth, and rigor demanded by sustainability practitioners, and user-friendliness that makes it accessible to people from almost any discipline. It’s the optimized path to effective, unified action towards your specific sustainability goals.
Useful for startups and companies >2yrs Application: company, product and service levels. |
Earth Smart | 7 day free trail moving to subscription |
| EarthShift Global | Package Smart – Helps packaging designers to evaluate the environmental impacts of their design decisions and clearly depict where and what changes could be made. For some this may bring focus to durability and re-use and for others light weighting or biodegradability. EarthShift Global has developed a simplified LCA software, PackageSmart, that speaks the language of Packaging Designers and allows them to easily compare design as well as material decisions during the conception phase when the cost of change is still low.
Useful for startups and companies >2yrs Application: product and service levels. |
Package Smart | 7 day free trail moving to subscription |
| ADEC | MetricsTRAC – Helps organisations monitor, manage and reduce resource use and costs; and eliminates the costs of maintaining a sustainability IT infrastructure
Useful for startups and companies >2yrs Application: company, product and service levels. |
MetricsTRAC | Free Demo |
| PRé | Simapro – One of the world’s leading product life cycle impact assessment software.
Useful for startups and companies >2yrs Application: company, product and service levels. |
Simapro | Dependant on service required |
| Thinkstep | GaBi – One of the world’s leading product life cycle impact assessment software; calculates product’s social and environmental impacts.
Useful for startups and companies >2yrs Application: company, product and service levels. |
GaBi | Free 30 day trail |
| CYCLeco | CYCLeco provides a number of LCA approach based software provides sustainability insights on Agriculture/food, textile, solar PV; for stakeholders and decision making process
Useful for startups and companies >2yrs Application: company, product and service levels. |
CYCLeco | Dependant on service required |
| London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham | SME carbon calculator tool to be used year on year.
Useful for startups and companies >2yrs Application: company, product and service levels. |
Still in production | Free |
| Ellen McArthur Foundation | Circulytics 2.0 – Second version launching in Oct 2020. supports a company’s transition towards the circular economy, regardless of industry, complexity, and size. Going beyond assessing products and material flows, this company-level measuring tool reveals the extent to which a company has achieved circularity across its entire operations.
Useful for startups and companies >2yrs Application: company, product and service levels. |
Circulytics 2.0 | Free but need to register and be accepted to participate. Data may be shared |
