AITrack has built and continues to grow the industry’s largest LCA activity database, with coverage for hundreds of thousands of industrial, energy, and agricultural unit processes. These LCA are not just emission factors, but full inventories of inputs and outputs: the materials, energy and other resources required, and emissions, waste, and useful products from the activity. Maintaining and using LCA models rather than aggregated processes or emission factors means that we can go beyond calculated results to provide deeper understanding of what is driving emissions.
Our database is comprised of proprietary LCA models developed over the years for application in our engagements with some of the world’s leading brands, ensuring real-world relevance and road-testing.
While the bulk of our database is activity-based LCA (also known as process LCA), we also implement and maintain environmentally extended economic input-output LCA (EEIO-LCA) models and results, providing the flexibility to use spend-based emissions measurement where needed.
The primary data and background data include over 300 trusted sources, including publicly available manufacturer data (e.g., material declarations and production locations); publicly available product specifications (e.g., dimensions, use-phase energy demand, materials, packaging, and technical data), databases developed by NGOs, governments, and research groups; and third-party life cycle inventory (LCI) datasets. Externally maintained or third-party LCA and LCI data sources include Ecoinvent, IMPLAN536, Cornerstone USEEIO (CC BY 4.0)†, eGrid, EIA, AIB European Residual Electricity Mixes, EMBER††, EPA WARM, Defra, and Higg MSI.
Our rapidly growing database is updated annually to reflect the latest production technologies and changes to energy, water, and utilities provision.
† Source: Ingwersen, W., & Young, B. (2025). Supply Chain Greenhouse Gas Emission Factors for U.S. Commodities (v1.4.0) [Data set]. Cornerstone Sustainability Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17080880, License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0); For complete licensing details, please refer to: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
†† Source: EMBER https://ember-energy.org/data/ License: CC BY 4.0
