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Workshop on Decarbonization: A Gap Analysis of LCA Standards for Industry

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Noah Last, Joshua D. Kneifel, Amy Costello, Catherine Houska, Katherine Morris

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ASTM International's committee on sustainability (E60), in collaboration with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), hosted the virtual "Workshop on Decarbonization: A Gap Analysis of LCA Standards for Industry" on October 10-11, 2023. The event convened approximately 150 stakeholders from across industry, government, non-government organizations (NGOs), and academia to discuss the challenges and opportunities that industry faces in applying life-cycle assessment (LCA) to address decarbonization efforts. The workshop aimed to identify and map gaps in international standards related to industrial decarbonization with a focus on LCA and identify opportunities for standards to address these gaps. This report summarizes the outcomes from the workshop and is valuable to those applying LCA to improve their organization's sustainability practices. Sustainability managers and practitioners will find a collection of existing standards and best practices for using LCA tools, data repositories, methods for allocating environmental impact to products, and problems that exist in using them, particularly for decarbonization efforts. Procurement professionals and other consumers will benefit from understanding the current limitations of the LCA approach. This report will be valuable to standards development organizations (SDOs) and other standards professionals as it will inform future planning. Finally, experts interested in creating new standards and adapting existing ones will find gaps in the field of LCA and suggestions for overcoming these gaps.
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Workshop on Decarbonization: A Gap Analysis of LCA Standards for Industry
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https://doi.org/10.1520/workshop-on-decarbonization-gap-analysis-of-lca
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decarbonization, standards, life cycle assessment, environmental product declaration, product category rules, life cycle thinking, sustainable manufacturing, sustainability
Sustainability, Standards, Resilient materials, Environment, Climate Measurements, Buildings and Construction, Building materials and Building codes and standards

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Last, N. , Kneifel, J. , Costello, A. , Houska, C. and Morris, K. (2024), Workshop on Decarbonization: A Gap Analysis of LCA Standards for Industry, Workshop on Decarbonization: A Gap Analysis of LCA Standards for Industry, [online], https://doi.org/10.1520/workshop-on-decarbonization-gap-analysis-of-lca, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=957956 (Accessed March 14, 2025)

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Created September 20, 2024, Updated October 9, 2024