Every product has an environmental impact, from raw materials and manufacturing to use and end of life. Understanding and managing these impacts is essential for designing sustainable and circular products. Tools like life cycle assessments (LCAs) and product carbon footprints (PCFs) help identify environmental hotspots, guide design improvements, and provide robust data to substantiate environmental performance. Transparent and verifiable data is essential to meet regulatory expectations and build credibility with regulators, customers and supply chains.
DEKRA helps product teams translate environmental impacts into actionable, measurable performance. By analyzing product life cycles, companies can prioritize improvement areas, optimize design, reduce environmental footprints, and advance circularity. Regulations such as the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), the Green Claims Directive (GCD), and the Empowering Consumers Directive (EmpCo) are raising expectations for product sustainability. Companies increasingly need transparent, verifiable data to demonstrate compliance, substantiate claims, and support evidence-based improvements.
Our experts connect eco-design strategies with robust life cycle assessments (LCAs), product carbon footprints (PCFs), environmental product declarations (EPDs), and the independent validation of environmental claims. This ensures product sustainability information is credible, verifiable, and aligned with regulatory and market expectations – while supporting better product design and circularity decisions.