Methodological Framework to Find Links between Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Categories and the UN Sustainable Development Goals Based on Literature

Life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) is suggested to be the best method to assess the environmental, economic, and social impacts of products along their life cycle in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) supporting them.  It links LCSA categories and measures the sustainability performance of products and operating systems and their contribution to the SDGs.  The LCSA framework depends on environmental life cycle assessment (LCA), life cycle costing (LCC), and social life cycle assessment (S-LCA), each having different levels of data availability and maturity.  However, linking LCSA to the SDGs is work in progress and the linkages are limited.