The training is for professionals responsible for environmental product disclosures. Typical participants include:

• Sustainability directors and managers
• Life cycle assessment practitioners
• Environmental consultants
• Corporate ESG teams
• Product compliance managers
• Manufacturing sustainability teams

Participation assumes a technical or professional role connected to environmental performance assessment.

Organisations investing in EPD capability need more than theoretical knowledge. The programme is built so that participants can prepare, review, and defend EPD documentation under verification conditions. After completing it, participants can:

• Design the methodological structure of an EPD study, aligned with ISO 14025
• Carry out the LCA an environmental product declaration requires
• Interpret and apply product category rules correctly
• Translate LCA models and results into declaration format
• Prepare the background LCA report supporting the declaration
• Compile the EPD document to programme operator requirements
• Identify methodological risks before verification begins
• Communicate EPD assumptions and results internally and externally

The focus is operational competence, so an organisation can manage EPD development within its own sustainability and product disclosure work — and support procurement requirements, regulatory disclosure, and sustainability reporting from internal capability rather than external consultants.

The programme follows the full life cycle of EPD preparation, from methodological foundations through to final declaration documentation. The curriculum modules run through seven stages:

The full module list, with a description of each, sits on the curriculum page.

Organisations run into the same difficulties when preparing environmental product declarations:

• Incorrect interpretation of product category rules
• Weak alignment between LCA modelling and declaration requirements
• Incomplete documentation for verification
• Inconsistent functional unit definition
• Unclear system boundaries
• Poor traceability of data sources

The training addresses these by giving methodological clarity and the operational procedures EPD development needs.

The training follows the internationally recognised standards that govern environmental product declarations and life cycle assessment:

• ISO 14025 — type III environmental declarations
• ISO 14040 — life cycle assessment: principles and framework
• ISO 14044 — life cycle assessment: requirements and guidelines
• EN 15804 — EPD framework for construction products
• Product category rules — issued by programme operators

The training covers how these standards interact across EPD development and verification. DEISO is not a certification or verification body.

Training engagements run in several formats depending on organisational needs:

• Remote training — run online for distributed teams
• Corporate group training — sessions shaped around an internal team
• On-site workshops — run at client facilities as intensive sessions
• One-to-one practitioner training — focused sessions for an individual specialist

Sessions are shaped around sector context, participant experience, and organisational objectives.

Certification recognises completion of a structured training programme. It is not a formal accreditation.

Participants may optionally sit a training examination to obtain a certificate of completion, confirming they have worked through:

• EPD methodological frameworks
• LCA principles used in declarations
• PCR interpretation
• Documentation and verification readiness

Certificate fees apply per trainee. Contact DEISO for pricing.

The training is built to produce operational capability rather than theoretical understanding alone. It offers:

• Training run by an LCA specialist with extensive experience in environmental assessment methodology
• A focus on verification readiness and documentation integrity
• LCA modelling and EPD reporting treated as one workflow, not two
• Industry-relevant case studies
• A programme shaped for professionals responsible for environmental disclosures

DEISO is a Tokyo-based sustainability execution and training firm, supporting organisations in building defensible environmental performance capability.