Nokia has been continuously improving product life cycle assessments and keeping up to date with latest developments in methods and datasets to better evaluate their products. Because of the complexity of the products and long and complex supply chain, conducting product life cycle assessments is a very complicated task to begin with. There are factors that make the task even more challenging. Some of the biggest challenges faced along the way as well as key findings from Nokia’s LCA studies are presented and demonstrated in this paper.

LCA; mobile phone; smart phone; climate change; integrated circuit