Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) are essential tools for understanding the environmental impacts of a product or service throughout its life cycle – from raw material extraction and processing, through manufacturing, distribution, use and end-of-life. Think of an LCA as a magnifying glass that reveals every detail of your product’s environmental impact. 

Climate reporting is required under the new CSRD regulations for larger businesses in the EU. Once more companies need to report under the CSRD, it is expected that more demands for transparent data will be made across supply chains. This can influence all sorts of organizations within the supply chain of the affected companies.

There are different frameworks for how to account for emissions. NIVI uses the internationally recognized GHG protocol which divides emissions into three scopes that account for direct emissions, indirect emissions, for example from electricity and emissions from the supply chain. Sometimes, emission data is available from suppliers, but often companies use average data from databases, based on data that can be found on invoices and other documents. 

As naive as it may sound, we genuinely aim to drive changes in GHG emissions reporting. We believe everyone has the right and responsibility to understand their business's emissions and take action to reduce them. While we also need to sustain our business, we have chosen to generate revenue through additional services offered by the NIVI team, such as consultancy, life cycle analysis, and developing decarbonization strategies.