Online Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Training Course

Special Offer: We are currently offering 3 for the price of 2. Buy access for 3 individuals and the third place will be free.

Also 66.67% of all training course sales (ex. VAT) will be diverted to our Scaling Carbon Reduction Initiative (SCRI), initially towards updating the ICE Database (until June 2025). 

Course: Introduction to life cycle assessment (LCA) training course (suitable for all sectors)

Modules: This course is made up of 16 online access video modules. They cover key topics including:

Module 1 – Background to LCA

Module 2 – The LCA framework, including:

  • Stages of LCA
  • Goal and scope
  • Boundaries
  • Life cycle thinking and upstream burdens
  • Comparing products and functional units
  • Inventory analysis
  • Process flow charts
  • Data collection
  • Life cycle inventories
  • Impact assessment
  • Interpretation

Module 3 – LCA Impact Categories – Acidification & Toxicity

Module 4 – Global Warming Potential & Carbon Footprinting

Module 5 – Eutrophication & Ozone Depletion

Module 6 – Particulate Matter Formation, Photochemical Oxidant Formation & Abiotic Depletion

Module 7 – Water Footprinting

Module 8 – A ‘Recap exercise’ and answers

Module 9 – Land use change & Ionising radiation

Module 10 – LCA Method & Standards, A brief overview

  • International standards on LCA
  • LCA Method – introduction to allocation
  • LCA Method – introduction to biogenic carbon storage

Module 11 – LCA Data

  • Ecoinvent
  • GaBi
  • ELCD (ILCD)
  • US LCI Database
  • Others….

Module 12 – LCA tools

  • SimaPro
  • GaBi
  • Open LCA
  • Others….

Module 13 – Interpreting LCA results

  • Characterised LCA results
  • Normalised LCA results
  • People emission equivalents

Module 14 – Interpreting LCA results continued

  • Weighted LCA results
  • Single score LCA results
  • Midpoint and endpoint LCA results
  • Fate modelling

Module 15 – LCA case study results

Module 16 – Detailed LCA case study results and course summary

Prices: This course is available through the Circular Ecology Training Hub, providing access to all our video training content. To view our pricing structure please click here.

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Testimonials

Here are a few testimonials from our courses:

“For me it was perfect to see the video and do the test when I have time, so I really like this way of doing a course” – Bergman, Norway

“Thank you for an excellent review of the issues for carbon analysis” – Brad, USA

“Thank you very much again for the course. It was very rewarding for me.” – Marta, Slovakia

“Very useful intro – helped us realise that LCA offers some insights for us, but that actually we need to, for our purposes, learn how to model impacts around individual needs/behaviours and not only around one object’s impacts.” Janet, UK

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