Data dive: Network science meets life cycle assessment
For the best results, LCA experts should keep an eye out for tools from other fields. Let’s explore what LCA can learn from network science, its methods and ways of looking.
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.
Obscure impacts demystified: Land use
Land use is another important but perhaps lesser known impact. Let’s discuss the subtleties of land use and land-use change, and how to account for it in LCA.
New report: Notable progress on the SDG-LCA methodology
To reach the UN SDGs by 2030, businesses must be able to get in on the work. Join us in developing a new LCA-based methodology to measure business contributions to the SDGs.
Obscure impacts demystified: Ionizing radiation
How knowledgeable are you about lesser-known impacts? Let’s discuss ionizing radiation, how to account for it in LCA and when it is a health risk.
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) explained
Life cycle assessment (LCA) is the factual analysis of a product’s entire life cycle in terms of sustainability. With it, you can reliably evaluate the environmental impacts of your product or service from cradle to grave.
Obscure impacts demystified: Stratospheric ozone depletion
Today’s obscure impact is – unfortunately – a blast from the past. Although the world took big steps in the right direction, stratospheric ozone depletion is still ongoing, and still important to include in LCAs.
Obscure impacts demystified: Eutrophication
Everyone has heard about climate change and the need for waste management. But how knowledgeable are you about lesser-known impacts? Read on to learn all about eutrophication.
We have a vision: trustworthy life cycle information accessible to all
For LCA to truly take off, the LCA community needs to solve the information exchange and comparability challenge. A consortium of experts took a huge step during the EC-funded Remodelling project.
Sustainability at the core: moving from gut feeling to facts
Now sustainability reporting has become a prerequisite at many levels of the business ecology, the field is poised to make a big leap towards fact-based analysis that can really inspire action.