A water footprint is a measure of how much water your business uses and which direct and indirect environmental impacts result from this. It can help you understand and manage your water use and even protect your company from physical, regulatory, and reputation risks.
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.
The Monte Carlo simulation is a well-known way of dealing with the fact that most environmental data isn't confined to a single value but falls in a range of values with some sort of probability attached. But how does it actually work?
Interesting news for ecoinvent users: the pedigree matrix approach of deriving uncertainty factors has been refined. The method developed by Andreas Ciroth and colleagues replaces expert judgement with empirical values.
PRé's technical consultant and SimaPro teacher, Ellen Meijer, shows you her five favorite tricks to help you become a SimaPro power user. These crucial features help you find errors, improve consistency, and make LCAs easier.
As the leading LCA tool, SimaPro embeds sustainability into your daily operations, making your efforts measurable and enabling you to create a competitive advantage from sustainability initiatives. SimaPro offers a comprehensive set of features for collecting, analyzing and monitoring the sustainability performance of your products and services.
LCA models and databases are becoming bigger and more complex. By switching to a calculation method that can keep up with these developments, we have given SimaPro 8 an update that gets it ready for the future.