The aim of this summary is to provide an introduction to the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) method. It discusses the differences with the carbon footprint method, as well as the different types of LCA (attributional, consequential, parametric, social) and their specific features.
Once the theoretical foundations have been laid, concrete examples applied to the digital sector are given.
The aim of this document is to provide a synthetic and holistic overview of LCA, the preferred method for measuring the environmental impacts of digital technology, by summarising the standards and recent scientific literature on the subject.