What is included into the product carbon footprints?

The product carbon footprint (PCF) of a product in a cradle-to-grave assessment and includes emissions related to four key product lifecycle stages:

• Manufacturing phase: Emissions from raw materials and manufacturing of its components and parts.
• Logistics phase: transportation to the country of use and then within the country of use.
• Use phase: Use of the products at customer locations in a given time frame. (energy consumption).
• EOL phase: End-of-life processing (i.e., recycling, refurbishing or disposal of the product).