In order to respond to even more complex objectives, LCA is more and more coupled with other tools integrating the different dimensions of sustainable development: social and economic.

LCM : Evaluate the cost of each alternative

Several methods exist: traditional, ABC (Activity Based Costing, including the processes’ costs), each one driving to different conclusions, according to the chosen aims.

MASIT : Multicriteria Analysis for Sustainable Industrial Technologies

Comparison of new technologies to the referenced ones. The used criteria are defined according to the sector. The goal of the comparison is identifying the significant improvements in the whole sustainability solutions set

IPP : Integrated Products Policy

Different methods are available to envisage the application of the IPP in Europe such as Life Cycle Assessment

Green Products

Manage the communication between industrials and purchasers and facilitate the improvement of product's global environmental impacts by the way of information and training programmes are European policy 's objectives regarding products.