2025 Volume 21 Issue 3 Pages 159-165
Global environmental crises call for sustainability transitions. This paper reviews the insights from transition research and discusses functions that LCA should fulfill within the context of major socio-technical changes brought about by transition. Six expectations for LCA community are explained: 1) to prepare inventory data and impact coefficients after transition, 2) to re-assess LCA assuming post-transition conditions, 3) to prepare the data of an environmental impact that will draw attention after the realization of a decarbonized society, 4) to establish LCA methodology to promote transitions, 5) to assess the contributions to a transition, and 6) to contribute consensus on transition scenarios to consider.
