What differentiates Pharos from existing certifications and LCA tools?
Pharos does not compete with existing third party product certifications but rather helps you understand how to make best use of them in product selection. Different certifications address different aspects of the health and environmental impact of products. Pharos helps you bring it all together to get a comprehensive view. The Pharos framework scores different certifications by the rigor of their standards and the independence of the certifying process and provides comparisons between the systems. Pharos step-by-step scoring descriptions lay out how different certifications impact a product’s scores. LCA tools hold significant promise for providing insight into some impacts of products, such as energy use and climate change, but practitioners have struggled to find robust ways to address human health in LCA tools. Pharos addresses the human health impact of both the material contents of the product and the chemicals used upstream in manufacture, using a robust framework based upon ha
