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Life-Cycle Assessment (or Life-Cycle Analysis - LCA) is an increasingly important analytical tool, as environmental policy focuses more and more on product and service systems instead of just production sites. LCA is most developed as a technique for evaluating environmental impacts, but it can be extended to cover other sustainability themes, such as social impacts.

There is growing pressure for the social dimensions and external economic impacts of business projects to be considered alongside environmental burdens and internal financial returns. Assessing and measuring ALL those aspects is necessary to identify sustainable opportunities.

Climate change and its negative consequences are fast becoming a priority concern for many in government and business, as well as the general public. It is generally recognised that climate change results, at least partly, from the accumulation of carbon dioxide (CO2) - as well as other so-called greenhouse gases - in the atmosphere. To fight this accumulation, there are hints of carbon taxes or carbon-rationing, and we are all urged to reduce our carbon footprint.

Whether your organisation is a micro SME or a large corporation, it does have some impacts - positive and negative - on the environment. Before spending time, money, efforts on an environmental action programme, you need to ensure that your hard work will bring benefits to your business. An initial environmental audit will enable you to prioritise your efforts. Subsequently, regular audits will monitor performance over time.

Improving environmental performance via product design reduces environmental impacts and offers additional value to customers by reducing whole-life ownership costs. Integrating environment into the product development process is a key element of life-cycle management. The phrase Design-for-Environment is generally used for design approaches that expressly address environmental performance. At EuGeos, we recognise that effectively integrating environment into the product development process needs more than just another evaluation tool for designers to use. Environmental management, R&D management and product design activities need to work together in a Green Design Triangle.