The Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) is a standardised tool for communicating transparent and verifiable environmental information about products.

For manufacturers, providing robust and quantitative data on the environmental impacts of their products is increasingly important, as such information plays a key role in communication with business partners, investors, and customers.

The EPD presents the relevant environmental impacts of a product based on life cycle assessments (LCA) in an independent and transparent way. The data serves as a foundation for informed decisions in planning, procurement, and sustainability assessment.

Typically, the entire product lifecycle is considered – from raw material extraction through production, transport and installation, to the use phase and end-of-life. The EPD also reports on energy and resource use as well as waste generation, and highlights positive aspects such as reuse, recovery, and recycling potential.

By providing a clear overview of a product’s contribution to environmental impacts such as greenhouse gas emissions, acidification, eutrophication, ozone depletion, or smog formation, the EPD makes the potential long-term effects on ecosystems transparent and comparable.