Eco-Efficiency Analysis in PROSA

Product Eco-Efficiency Analysis is an assessment tool within PROSA. It places the findings of an LCA and those of Life-Cycle Costing in relation to each other. The LCA procedure is set out in detail in ISO standards 14040 and 14044. There is no comparable standard or internationally recognized code of conduct for Life-Cycle Costing or Eco-Efficiency Analysis. Nonetheless, regular exchange with practitioners using and developing similar approaches such as the BASF Eco-Efficiency Analysis (Saling et. al 2002) and others (cf. the status seminar on Eco-Efficiency Analysis, Grießhammer 2003) ensures compliance with the generally recognized methodological state of science.

When performing an Eco-Efficiency Analysis, care must be taken that when setting the goal of the study, the scope of inventory analysis, the functional unit and the allocation rules, etc., similar underlying definitions are applied (cf. also the Integration Checklist in the annex to this brochure).