Prospective life cycle assessment as a tool for environmentally responsible innovation

Overcoming barriers to improved decision-making for battery deployment in the clean energy transition

“…37 This is the case for battery technologies in pilot production, that have not deployed enough representative systems, or when a prospective assessment is undertaken. 38 , 39 Some life cycle stages may have missing information. Battery LCAs often lack information about disposal or recycling, so exclude this life cycle stage or treat them inconsistently across studies.…”