The State of EPD Quality 2026
What 5,700 verification comments and nearly 400 AI-assisted quality reviews reveal about where EPDs actually go wrong.
By Anni Oviir — EPD verifier since 2018 · August 2026
18.8%
the single largest issue theme in six years of verification comments: incomplete or ambiguous documentation, ahead of any modelling error
73%
share of issues on background reports that are transparency or completeness findings, across the platform reviews that included one
0 of 100
most recent platform reviews that came back with zero issues
What's inside
- The top-10 issue themes from 5,700 verification comments (2020–2026, 169 projects, four programme operators)
- Aggregate statistics from 398 platform quality reviews (13,835 requirement checks in the 100 most recent alone)
- Why the two datasets converge on documentation, not modelling
- The regulatory wave that makes this urgent (EU CPR 2024/3110, EPBD whole-life carbon from 2028, Buy Clean California)
- A practical pre-submission routine for EPD developers
- Full methodology and limitations
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