Organisational LCA for supporting environmental management towards sustainability of production patterns: the case of agricultural machinery

This paper presents and discusses the applicability and the main challenges of the methodology Organisational LCA to an organisation in the sector of agricultural equipment. The main methodological issues related to the modelling of end of life are discussed, together with the possible sinergies and complementarities with the ISO 14001:2015.The O-LCA has proven to be a very useful and complete approach for an organisation, and contributing to make a step towards Sustainable Development Goals, namely “Sustainable Production and Consumption Patterns”. By looking both at the product portfolio and at the activities, it provides a global view on the organisation and allows identifying the most effective and efficient interventions to optimise the environmental performances. It is close to the way the organisations are used to deal with the environmental management and, as such, the O-LCA could represent the analytical tools within the already existing management schemes.