The European Commission’s Directorate General for Research and Innovation published a ‘Study on a potential framework for the nvironmental footprint database’ on 31 January 2025. The database should provide background datasets for life cycle assessment studies.
Life cycle assessment is a scientific method to analyse the environmental performance of products in a quantifiable way. The Environmental Footprint (EF) method is a European standard which provides detailed instructions on how to calculate the environmental impacts of, for example, products. Available, high-quality background datasets accelerate these calculations and make the results reliable.