Systematic consideration of environmental aspects within the early stages of product development (PD) can be considered highly significant in order for the overall environmental performance of the product to be improved. Many methods and tools have been developed aiming to enable this consideration and provide the properties that need to be considered and improved. This article provides an overview of some well-known and more applicable tools and methods that have been developed and are available today. The identified tools are generally classified in two groups: Guidelines and Analytical tools. The limitations and barriers of current tools are assessed and categorized and two areas for future work are proposed in order to address current limitations in the existing literature.