Life Cycle Assessment methodology review

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is an acknowledged environmental impact assessment tool to calculate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of dairy production. To help the global dairy sector value chain to have a robust benchmark for calculating carbon footprints for pre-competitive discussions and to make continued progress in both researching and applying new technologies in effectively reducing the sector’s GHG emissions, IDF developed the original methodology (2010) with a revised version released in 2015 ‘A Common Carbon Footprint Approach for Dairy: The IDF Guide to Standard Lifecycle Assessment Methodology for the Dairy Sector.‘

An extensive IDF Action team of over 40 experts from 17 different geographies is reviewing the entire methodology and has identified some key areas where updates will be made, mainly scope, boundaries, emission factors, allocation approaches, and land use and land use change. The LCA methodology update will be released in Q2 2022. Click here for more information