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Carbon footprint & decarbonisation strategy
A decarbonisation plan that enables cost optimisation
For sustainability leaders in industrial supply chains: every reduction lever identified at process level, priced per tonne abated, and defensible, built from ISO-compliant life cycle assessment (LCA).
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90%
reduction in CO₂ emissions
For Vianode's synthetic graphite anode versus conventional production
Together with Minviro, we’ve modelled an LCA with high credibility, which allows us to present the LCA to our business partners with comfort. In addition, it forms a solid basis for many of our sustainability targets, and thus has created value beyond compliance.
Andreas Forfang, Vice President Sustainability & Public Affairs at Vianode
Decarbonisation
The economics of carbon flipped. Your decarbonisation plan is industrial strategy.
In energy- and material-intensive supply chains, carbon now costs money to emit and earns it to avoid — and 2030 targets are coming due. Every mechanism prices the product, not the company. So a reduction plan is only as good as the LCA beneath it.
Strategic Accounts Manager at Minviro
Control emissions as they carry the cost
Free carbon allowances for steel, aluminium, cement, fertiliser and hydrogen began phasing out in 2026, reaching zero by 2034, and at today's ETS price of near €80/t, the cost of every emitted tonne is already real. Exposure is per tonne of product; only process-level measurement shrinks it."
Be in demand with a verified low-carbon product in the market
Green steel offtakes now carry per-tonne premiums; OEM tenders specify renewable power, recycled content and climate targets. The premium attaches to verified intensity per tonne — LCA-grade, not a corporate average.
Focus your 2030 targets on process delivery
Science-based targets cascade through procurement; four reporting years out, boards test delivery, not ambition. Set at company level, delivered at process level — that translation is the decarbonisation plan.
WHY IT'S DIFFERENT
From carbon footprint to costed reduction levers
Where is the carbon, what does acting on it cost, and does the answer hold up under scrutiny? One process-level model answers all three, measurement, economics, and evidence does not have to be separate exercises.
Cradle-to-cradle system boundaries
Grid, route, and feedstock as parameters
No burden shifted between life cycle stages
Contribution analysis per input and process
16+ impact categories, beyond carbon
LCC to ISO 15686-5, CAPEX and OPEX
One model, every regulatory and customer output
Extends to new products and scenarios
Consultancy, software, and data, one team
FROM MINVIRO'S RESEARCH
The cheapest tonnes are rarely where the strategy deck says they are
Industrial decarbonisation is route-specific, grid-specific, and supplier-specific. In battery supply chains, the bulk of climate impact sits in raw material production, not assembly, and when life cycle costing sits alongside the LCA, opportunities sort themselves by cost per tonne of CO₂e abated. Sometimes the cleaner route is also the cheaper one: in one tailings comparison we modelled, the lower-carbon option cut climate impact by 21% and running costs by 11%. Every result below is published or client-released; follow the sources.
51–
85%
Lower climate impact for Nordic-produced battery materials versus global averages. The geography of the supply chain is itself a reduction lever.
Minviro for Battery Norway (2025)
20%
Climate impact reduction from switching manufacturing to a renewable-dominant grid, for a cost increase of just 5–10%, the cost–climate trade-off, quantified.
Minviro × Exawatt on LFP batteries (2023)
⅔
Reduction in carbon footprint per kilogram of battery binder, modelled as scenarios: scaled production plus decarbonised energy supply.
Minviro for GRST (EF 3.1, ISO 14040/44)
2.9t
Net CO₂ per tonne of lithium hydroxide from geothermal direct lithium extraction, including Scope 1, 2 and 3.
Minviro for Vulcan Energy
HOW IT WORKS
From scoping call to living LCA model in three steps
How does the LCA process work with Minviro?
Step 1
Baseline
A process-level LCA on your primary data shows where the impact actually sits — by process, route, and supplier. Not where the strategy deck assumed it was.
Step 2
Rank and price
Every candidate lever — energy switching, alternative fuels, lower-impact chemicals, supplier or route changes — modelled as a scenario in the same system and priced per tonne of CO₂e abated. This is the carbon reduction strategy you take to the board.
Step 3
Commit & reuse
The funded levers become a staged roadmap, and the model keeps working: new scenarios, new products, and regulatory or customer outputs generated from what you already built — not from scratch.
DELIVERABLES
What can a decarbonisation engagement with Minviro include?
For the teams turning a target into funded interventions, and defending the progress afterwards.
ISO-compliant Life Cycle Assessment (14040/44)
The foundational asset. Every other output below is generated from this one model, so you build it once and reuse it for every framework and customer request that follows.
A full life cycle model quantifying 16+ impact categories, from climate to resource depletion, across value chains.
Costed decarbonisation pathway (LCA + LCC)
The carbon emissions reduction plan that gets capital allocated — presented as a marginal abatement cost curve (MACC): every lever sorted by cost per tonne of CO₂e abated, with trade-offs explicit before you commit.
Reduction levers ranked by abatement and cost; methodology published in the Decarbonisation Pathway white paper.
Carbon neutrality roadmap
Sequences the funded levers against your target year — from the key projects that move the baseline, through decarbonising actions, to continuous improvement — with the milestones buyers and boards will track.
A staged reduction plan from baseline to target, delivered for clients including Huawei.
Scenario & sensitivity analysis
Separates the levers that genuinely move your number from the noise — and shows how the pathway holds up against grid forecasts, prices, and the assumptions underneath it.
Each intervention as a re-runnable scenario, with sensitivity quantified per assumption.
Cost–climate trade-off analysis (LCC, ISO 15686-5)
Answers the commercial question behind every reduction: what does the decarbonised product cost to make — CAPEX and OPEX across the life cycle — and what premium does the market need to carry?
Life cycle costing and techno-economic analysis paired with the LCA, including 'green' product scenarios.
Verification & Third Party Audits (ISO 14071)
The difference between a reduction you believe and one a regulator, investor, or customer will accept.
Required for public comparative assertions. Independent third-party review with the statement that accompanies any externally communicated claim.
Case studies
Work we have delivered
Across battery materials, mining, rail, electronics, and emerging manufacturing, across 46 countries.
Why the same product gets different results in different LCA software
Why the same product gets different results in different LCA software
Why the same product gets different results in different LCA software
Why the same product gets different results in different LCA software
The Carbon Footprint of a Battery: Why It’s a Property of the Supply Chain, Not the Cell, and Why That’s Now a Market-Access Question
The Carbon Footprint of a Battery: Why It’s a Property of the Supply Chain, Not the Cell, and Why That’s Now a Market-Access Question
The Carbon Footprint of a Battery: Why It’s a Property of the Supply Chain, Not the Cell, and Why That’s Now a Market-Access Question
The Carbon Footprint of a Battery: Why It’s a Property of the Supply Chain, Not the Cell, and Why That’s Now a Market-Access Question
The Carbon Footprint of Solar Panel Manufacturing: Why It’s a Range, Not a Number, and Why That Range Now Decides Tenders
The Carbon Footprint of Solar Panel Manufacturing: Why It’s a Range, Not a Number, and Why That Range Now Decides Tenders
The Carbon Footprint of Solar Panel Manufacturing: Why It’s a Range, Not a Number, and Why That Range Now Decides Tenders
The Carbon Footprint of Solar Panel Manufacturing: Why It’s a Range, Not a Number, and Why That Range Now Decides Tenders
Questions
Common questions
What your environmental data actually decides, and why a number you can't explain creates more risk than it removes.
Strategic Accounts Manager at Minviro
Will my LCA hold up under third-party critical review for EU Battery Regulation?
All Minviro LCA studies are conducted to ISO 14040/44 and submitted for independent critical panel review by qualified third-party reviewers. For EU Battery Regulation submissions, we work to EF 3.1 methodology — the specific framework required by the Delegated Act. Our 40+ verified declarations have passed critical review. We can confirm what a critical reviewer will look for in your specific case during a scoping call
How do I build a defensible Carbon Performance Class declaration when my supplier data is inconsistent?
Inconsistent supplier data is the most common challenge we encounter. Minviro's approach uses data quality scoring (DQR) aligned to EF Delegated Act requirements — so we can identify where data gaps create declaration risk before you submit. XYCLE's supplier data collection workflows are designed specifically to close those gaps with structured questionnaire templates and automated verification.
What's the difference between EF 3.1 and ISO 14067 — and which do I need?
ISO 14067 is the international standard for product carbon footprints. EF 3.1 (Environmental Footprint, version 3.1) is the EU-specific methodology mandated for EU Battery Regulation compliance. They are complementary but not identical — the characterisation factors, data quality requirements, and acceptable impact categories differ. If you're placing batteries on the EU market from 2026, you need EF 3.1. If you're responding to an OEM data request, ISO 14067 is typically the baseline. Many Minviro clients need both from a single model.
SOLUTION
Got a net zero target and no costed route to it? Tell us.
Forward the OEM questionnaire, RFP, or regulation letter you've received. An analyst tells you what output it actually requires, the methodology it names, and a realistic timeline.
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