5.15 Conduct a full life-cycle assessment
Business Strategy And Product Management
Identify the potential impact that a digital product or service will have throughout its lifetime by conducting an LCA.
Criteria
- Life-cycle assessment: Human-testable
Conduct a Life-cycle assessment (LCA) to define sustainability-related functional impacts throughout a product’s lifetime.- Building a Sustainable ICT Ecosystem (PDF)
- Consequential and Attributional Life Cycle Assessment in Streaming Media Sustainability (PDF)
- Defining Functional Units For LCA and TEA (PDF)
- Defining the functional unit
- GPF – General Policy Framework (PDF) – 1.5 – Strategy (Impact Goals)
- GPF – General Policy Framework (PDF) – 4.3 – UX and UI (Optimized Clickstream)
- Life-cycle Assessment
- Life Cycle Assessment
- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
- Understanding Digital life-cycle Assessments
- Understanding the Implications of Uncertainty in Embodied Carbon Models for Sustainable Computing (PDF)
- Using life cycle assessment to drive innovation for sustainable cool clouds
Benefits
- Economic
Using a functional unit approach supports a robust product or service while avoiding unnecessary and potentially costly features. - Environment
Using functional units enables the comparison of non-equivalent products or services in the assessment of environmental impacts. - Performance
Focusing on a functional unit drives performance-based choices for a better, more efficient, and faster user experience.
GRI
- Materials: Medium
- Energy: Medium
- Water: Medium
- Emissions: Medium