Life cycle assessment prompts for PowerPoint

Five consulting-style prompts that build a life cycle assessment review in the order of the four ISO LCA phases: an executive overview, goal and scope, inventory with data quality, impact hotspots, and an interpretation slide that ties results to a decision.

Life cycle assessment example slide: circular product journey linked to the four ISO LCA phases and three implications
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Life cycle assessment prompt

Pick a slide, fill in any highlighted fields, then copy or run it.

Create one 16:9 Life Cycle Assessment PowerPoint slide for an executive review.
Decision: identify where management should focus reduction investment.
Show the product life cycle from raw materials through manufacturing, distribution, use, collection, recycling, and end of life.
Connect the journey to the four LCA phases: goal and scope, inventory, impact assessment, and interpretation.
Use this verified finding as the action title: [insert finding].
Add three implications and one limitation.
Use an original forest-green consulting layout with a source footer.
Mark unverified values as illustrative and do not invent missing data.
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Why these prompts work

  • Placeholders demand verified inputs

    Slots like [insert finding], [insert quantified function] and [paste verified category values] sit next to "Mark unverified values as illustrative." The deck carries your numbers, not plausible-looking ones.

  • Exclusions are not zeros

    The goal and scope prompt asks for cut-off rules and justified exclusions and says "Do not imply that excluded processes have zero impact," which keeps the boundary honest when two products are compared.

  • Data quality is on the slide

    The inventory prompt splits primary data, secondary data, estimates and missing data in a heatmap, and the action title must state the largest data issue rather than hide it.

  • No unsupported winner

    The impact prompt asks for a trade-off title plus one burden-shifting risk. The interpretation prompt recommends an option only if it holds under tested assumptions and names the assumption most likely to reverse it.

Adapt it to your own deck

  • Use your own LCA results

    Fill the bracketed fields from your LCA report or software export, with units and sources. Attach the report and add: "Use only values from the attached file and cite the table for each figure."

  • Change the comparison

    The impact prompt compares Alternative A and B on four categories. Rename the alternatives and swap categories to match your method, for example "Show eutrophication and land use instead of acidification and resource use."

  • Fit the audience and brand

    For a thesis or journal audience, cut the NPV and business-case inputs and ask for "sensitivity and uncertainty results only." For a company review, pick your own template and add "Use the template colors instead of forest green."

Life cycle assessment FAQ

What is a life cycle assessment (LCA)?

A method for estimating the environmental impacts of a product or service across its life, from raw material extraction through production, use and end of life. ISO 14040 and 14044 organize it in four phases: goal and scope, inventory analysis, impact assessment and interpretation.

What should an LCA presentation include?

At minimum the functional unit, system boundary, data sources and their quality, results by impact category and life cycle stage, and the study's limits. These prompts give each phase one slide, so the deck follows the same order as the study.

Can I use these prompts in ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini?

Yes. A chat assistant returns slide text and an outline you then lay out yourself. In Tosea you attach your LCA report with the prompt, pick a template and get slides you can edit and export to PowerPoint (.pptx).

Will the prompts fill in missing LCA data?

No. They tell the model not to invent or calculate missing values unless a stated assumption supports them, and to label sample values as illustrative. The example slides use illustrative figures, so replace them with your own results.

Figures on the example slides are illustrative.

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