The ISO 14067 LCA method concept for evaluating inputs, outputs, and potential impacts across a product system life cycle.
Life cycle assessment evaluates inputs, outputs, and potential environmental impacts across a product system’s life cycle. It is not only one facility, one supplier, or one transaction point; the study goal and scope define the relevant product-system boundary.
This page follows ISO 14067:2018 and supports product carbon-footprint interpretation. LCA is the method family behind the footprint, while a carbon footprint of a product is a climate-focused result within that broader lifecycle logic. The EU Battery Regulation does not define life cycle assessment directly, but Annex II relies on Product Environmental Footprint carbon-footprint calculation and defines adjacent LCI, functional-unit, reference-flow, secondary-data, and system-boundary terms used in battery carbon footprint evidence. EU Environmental Footprint Recommendation context: Recommendation (EU) 2021/2279 supplies PEF method definitions for study, profile, impact-assessment, benchmark, and data objects. Treat this as an official method/recommendation layer, not as a standalone binding product-law obligation or a carbon-only accounting definition.
ISO 14067:2018 - Greenhouse gases — Carbon footprint of products
compilation and evaluation of the inputs, outputs and the potential environmental impacts of a product system (3.1.3.2) throughout its life cycle (3.1.4.2)
Reference: 3.1.4.3
This term originates in ISO 14067:2018 and/or ISO 14044 LCA methodology. It is used in EU product regulation — particularly under the EU Battery Regulation (PEF method for carbon footprint) and ESPR (environmental footprint) — because both regulations require lifecycle-based quantification of environmental impacts. Practitioners applying these regulations should be familiar with these LCA/PEF concepts to correctly scope, conduct, and verify product-level environmental assessments.
Implementation records should capture the study goal, scope boundary, product-system model, impact results, functional or declared unit, inventory dataset, data-quality rules, and interpretation findings. For battery carbon footprint work, LCA context should be linked to the Annex II LCI dataset, activity data, functional unit, reference flow, system boundary, bill of materials, company-specific data, and secondary-data records.
Life cycle assessment is a lifecycle-method framework control: the evidence consequence is that footprint claims can be traced through goal, scope, inventory, impact assessment, and interpretation rather than reduced to one isolated emissions number. The Battery Regulation gives LCA pages a concrete battery evidence bridge without creating a fake direct legal definition for life cycle assessment: the operational proof sits in Annex II calculation objects and Product Environmental Footprint context.