EPD Whitepaper

The world needs to change its economy from a linear to a circular model, minimizing the environmental impacts of the products produced, regulated, and consumed. However, meaningful quantification of product environmental footprints, over various impact categories, including GHG, water & land use, and resource depletion, is a formidable challenge. EPDs provide transparent and comparable data, enabling informed decision-making for sustainable procurement and design for manufacturers to differentiate and improve their products, while architects and designers can make more sustainable choices based on this data. Our whitepaper discusses how embracing EPD methods tailored for lighting will better stand the test of time & raise sustainability ambitions within the lighting industry.