Environmental Product Declaration (EPD)

A comprehensive explanation of EPDs was made by Ecochain.

We want to make EPD services and their use as accessible and affordable as possible. The International EPD System is the world’s first and leading global EPD program operating in accordance with the ISO 14025, TS/14027, 14040, a.o. standards. For the building and construction sector, our manufacturers' EPDs also comply with the ISO 21930 and EN 15804 standards. Any organisation, no matter its size, location and industry has the right to publish EPDs in an as sensible, simple and affordable way. The market is craving for product specific and product variation specific LCA data (EPDs) instead of generic LCA data. As EPD International we want to be the facilitator of the development towards increased availability of product and service specific environmental performance information at large scale and provide these in a format that is attractive to the market. EPDs as a pool of third-party verified LCA information that can be used in various applications and scenarios have all the ingredients to fill this enormous data gap/lack and the new market need for digital data, but only when provided in a processable format. And indeed, EPDs shall play a decisive role in the larger context of policymaking linked to e.g. the Green Deal and many other national and multi-national policies and legislation when you ask us.