LC Initiative Publications

Life Cycle Initiative

The United Nations Environment Program, UNEP and the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, SETAC launched an International Life Cycle Partnership, known as the Life Cycle Initiative, to enable users around the world to put life cycle thinking into effective practice.

Phase 2 Activities

Life Cycle Management in Business and Industry

Life Cycle Approaches for Capability Development

Life Cycle Approaches for Methodologies and Data

Life Cycle Approaches for Consumption Clusters

Life Cycle Approaches for Resources and Impacts

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Life Cycle Initiative Publications

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UNEP/SETAC Publications

Life Cycle Management - How Business uses it to decrease footprint, create opportunities and make value chains more sustainable ( 2009, English, 48 pages)

Lignes Directrices pour l'analyse sociale du Cycle de Vie des produits (2009, French, 103 pages)

Guidelines for Social Life Cycle Assessment of Products (2009, English, 104 pages)

Life Cycle Management: A business guide to sustainability (2007, English, 52 pages)

Life Cycle Approaches - The road from analysis to practice (2005, English, 89 pages)

Background document for Life Cycle Management (2005, English, 108 pages)

Why Take a Life Cycle Approach? (2004, 24 pages) | English| French| Spanish| Japanese| Chinese|

Evaluation of Environmental Impacts in Life Cycle Assessment (2003, English, 96 pages)

Executive Summary of the LCM Definition Study (2003, English, 2 pages)

Final Draft of the LCM Definition Study (2003, English, 37 pages)

Appendixes of the LCM definition study (under final revision)(2003, English, 40 pages)

Review process (2003, English, 3 pages)

A Bridge to More Sustainable Products (ppt.) (2003, English, 81 Slides)

Summary of Life Cycle Impact Assessment Methods (Excell sheets) (2003, English, 10 pages)

Explanation of Life Cycle Impact Assessment Methods (Word.doc) (2003, English, 3 pages)

Towards a Global Use of Life Cycle Assessment (1999, English, 71 pages)

Declaration of Apeldoorn on LCIA of Non-Ferrous Metals