SimaPro in 2030: where are we headed?
We asked our users where they thought SimaPro was headed in the next 10 years. Their ideas were excellent, with a great feel for the important themes of this decade.
Sustainability is about collaboration, open dialog and – most of all – action. Read our articles to share in our knowledge and expertise and to build your capacity for purposeful action.
30 years of fact-based sustainability: celebration and looking ahead
PRé is turning 30 – a time to reminisce about where we started, celebrate the progress and community spirit in the sustainability field and look to the future challenges that lie ahead.
Using the Environmental Footprint database in SimaPro
With the new Environmental Footprint database set in SimaPro, you can get started with assessing the environmental footprint of your organisation and products free of charge – 3200 datasets, 2 OEFSRs and 19 PEFCRs.
Calculate the costs of pollution in SimaPro with Environmental Prices
Discussing the results of LCA with business people is not always easy. With the new Environmental Prices method in SimaPro 9.0, you can express impacts in a metric that is intuitive and clear: money.
Is our SimaPro training something for (people like) you?
Interested in our training courses? Our SimaPro trainer Laura Golsteijn talks about the people who participate, their choices and their origins, to make you feel like home and help you decide.
Agrofair bananas towards integral sustainable label with pesticide footprint tool
For AgroFair, a large banana importer looking to differentiate its products, PRé developed the easy-to-use Pesticide Footprint tool to quantify the toxic impacts of pesticides on human health and freshwater ecosystems.
Agri-footprint: a keystone database for sustainable food worldwide
With the release of Agri-footprint 2.0, it's a good time to look back at some of the influential projects Agri-footprint has been used for so far. From product design tools to labelling schemes, from national analysis to scientific publications.
Update Instructions (from 8.0.4 to 8.0.5)
This document describes how to update your current SimaPro from version 8.0.4 to 8.0.5
Finding your way in multifunctional processes and recycling
Some issues in LCA are heavily debated because there is no single right answer. How to allocate impacts in multifunctional processes or recycling is such a debate. This article gives an overview of the available methods and how they work.
Why my LCA scores radically changed after the ecoinvent update
When upgrading to a newer version of an LCI database, it's important to be aware of how your LCA results will change. PRé's LCA expert Tommie Ponsioen outlines four categories of changes and their impact, to help you explain your changing results.