View source for Federal Life Cycle Assessment Commons

{{Program
|ProgramName=Federal Life Cycle Assessment Commons
|ProgramType=Program
|OrgSponsor=Partnership
|TopOrganization=Department of Agriculture
|CreationLegislation=None
|Purpose=Federal Life Cycle Assessment Commons aligns agencies to share standardized LCA data, boosting access for environmental decisions via an open repository.
|Website=https://www.lcacommons.gov
|ProgramStart=2018
|InitialFunding=Not publicly specified
|Duration=Ongoing
|Historic=No
}}
The '''Federal Life Cycle Assessment Commons''' (FLCAC) is an interagency collaboration launched in 2018 to unify and distribute life cycle assessment (LCA) data across U.S. federal entities, hosted by the USDA’s [[National Agricultural Library]] with contributions from the [[Department of Energy]], [[Environmental Protection Agency|EPA]], and other agencies. Designed to overcome inconsistencies in LCA methods and data silos, it provides a web-based platform hosting repositories like the USDA LCA Commons and DOE’s NETL [[Energy Data eXchange]], with over 1,000 datasets standardized via tools like the [[Federal Elementary Flow List]] (FEDEFL).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lcacommons.gov |title=Federal LCA Commons |publisher=USDA National Agricultural Library}}</ref> By fostering open data practices, FLCAC supports applications from policy-making to emerging tech evaluation, marking its impact with milestones like the 2022 FEDEFL v2.0 release.

{{Official URL (simple)|url=https://www.lcacommons.gov}}