Introduction
The International Council of Marine Industry Associations (ICOMIA), the European Boating Industry (EBI) and the National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA) are working together to develop the first globally aligned Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology for the recreational marine sector. This survey is a critical part of that process.
Your input — whatever your current level of familiarity with LCA — will directly inform how the methodology is designed, and whether it fits the needs of manufacturers like you across all regions, vessel types, and organisation sizes.
We'd be grateful for approximately 20 minutes of your time.
Why we're doing this
The global recreational marine industry faces growing environmental expectations from customers, regulators and investors. A robust, globally aligned approach to measuring the environmental impact of leisure marine boats and products across their full lifecycle is increasingly important — but it needs to work for the full diversity of manufacturers, from large corporates to small independent boatbuilders.
This survey will help ICOMIA, EBI and NMMA understand where the industry currently stands, what the real barriers to adoption are, and what needs to change to make LCA genuinely accessible and valuable for manufacturers worldwide.
Key Details
The survey will autosave as you progress through each section and you can navigate backwards/forwards between sections to adjust your answers, however, if you close your browser/tab without completing the full survey and clicking 'Done' on the final page, the survey will not save any partially finished responses and you will need to complete your responses from the beginning. So we recommend completing this survey in one go.
Estimated completion time
15 - 20 minutes
Confidentiality
All responses are confidential. Individual answers will not be attributed to named organisations in any published output. Aggregated, anonymised findings will be used by ICOMIA, EBI and NMMA to inform the methodology development.
Who should complete this
Ideally someone with oversight of your organisation's sustainability, operations or product development — or a senior employee who can speak to both commercial and environmental priorities.
Completion Date
The survey link will remain open until Friday 23rd October 2026
Follow-up interviews
At the end of the survey, you'll be asked whether you'd be willing to participate in a follow-up interview as part of Phase 1.3 of the project. This is entirely optional.
Questions or queries
Please contact ben@icomia.com
