The ISO 14067 LCA phase for evaluating potential environmental impacts from inventory results.
Life cycle impact assessment evaluates the magnitude and significance of potential environmental impacts from inventory results. It is not the inventory itself; it is the impact-evaluation layer that follows inventory compilation.
This page follows ISO 14067:2018. LCIA depends on selected impact categories, characterisation methods, and study scope, so results need method context before comparison.
ISO 14067:2018 - Greenhouse gases — Carbon footprint of products
phase of life cycle assessment (3.1.4.3) aimed at understanding and evaluating the magnitude and significance of the potential environmental impacts for a product system (3.1.3.2) throughout the life cycle (3.1.4.2) of the product (3.1.3.1)
Reference: 3.1.4.5
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 impact category, inventory result, characterisation method, significance assessment, product-system link, method version, indicator result, and interpretation note.
Life cycle impact assessment is an impact-evaluation control: the evidence consequence is that inventory flows can be converted into method-specific impact indicators without hiding the category and characterisation choices.