Choosing the right sustainable business model isn't a decision to be made lightly. Depending on your product's life cycle, choosing the wrong business model might make impacts worse. That's why life cycle thinking is essential.
Around 25% of all published life cycle assessments concern agricultural products. Why do agriculture-related LCAs make up such a large share? This article looks at historical context and current developments in this crucial sector.
In the past, LCA database developers have mostly used data from European production processes. But in a global economy we need truly global LCA databases. Read more here about some of the initiatives trying to bring together global production data.
New scientific insight requires us to update environmental assessment methodologies to better reflect the true impacts of what we do. Recently, an update to the Global Warming Potential factors was released. How will this change carbon footprints?
Do you know where your company's environmental impacts occur? If you focus on the impact of internal processes, your efforts to improve sustainability may not be as efficient as they could be. How much do you know about your supply chain?
How can you share your sustainability achievements in a trustworthy way and show your prospective customers that you have nothing to hide?
These Eco-indicator 99 manuals are intended to be used by designers and product managers that want to apply the standard Eco-indicator values for the assessment of environmental aspects of product systems.
Eco-indicator 95, developed in 1995, was one of the first endpoint impact assessment methods in the world, allowing the environmental load of a product to be expressed in a single score.