Carbon Neutral Certified Product

[Jee Wei3719]

Hi,
We are proposing to clients to use “Carbon Neutral” Certified products by Climate Active.
How do we account for the positive initiative in an LCA?

Jeewei

[Fei Ngeow]

Hi Jee Wei, modelling the recommendations via EPDs would be your best bet. Please refer to this support post on how to create EPDs: https://support.etoollcd.com/index.php/knowledgebase/using-epd-in-etoollcd/

[Fei Ngeow]

Hi Jee Wei, we’ve just published a new post on how to model carbon neutral products in eToolLCD. Please refer to this post: https://support.etoollcd.com/index.php/knowledgebase/modeling-carbon-neutral-products-in-etoollcd/

[Erwin5705]

Hi Fei,
Do you have advice on how to do it with EPDs? There are a couple templates in one of my projects that have an EPD but are also carbon neutral. I have created scenarios capturing the numbers from the EPDs but when I try to capture separate scenarios to capture the carbon neutrality of the material, the above methodology does not work as I can’t put negative quantities for the EPD. What would be the best way forward? If the EPD only captures A1 to A3, does removing it from the model/template suffice?

Thanks
Erwin