How to make an accessible life cycle hotspot analysis
Life cycle hotspot analysis can help confirm your intuition or lead you to new insights.This article gives a view on how to make detailed hotspot analysis in LCA, clear to everyone involved
Tommie Ponsioen
Tommie Ponsioen
Articles by Tommie Ponsioen
Tommie’s favorite sustainability initiative: FoodBattle
Each month, one of PRé's people talks about his or her favourite sustainability initiative. This month, Tommie Ponsioen talks about FoodBattle, a challenge that helps households reduce their food waste and their environmental footprint.
Why “It Depends…” Is Often The Right Answer
If you want a decisive answer to a straightforward sustainability question, getting a vague answer from your company's sustainability professionals is frustrating. This article explains why they do that and how you can help get the answer you need.
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.
The Difference Between the ecoinvent 3.1 System Models
Version 3.1 of the ecoinvent databases provides three system models to choose from: 'Allocation, default', 'Allocation, recycled content', and 'Consequential'. This article briefly describes their methodological differences.
Why food and beverage LCAs are difficult to do
LCA has been slow to develop in the food and beverage sectors, although various breakthroughs have happened recently. What is so different about the allocation considerations in agricultural LCA? What makes these LCAs so difficult?
Normalization: new developments in normalization sets
This series of articles discusses the steps in an LCA, each explained by an expert consultant. Today, Tommie Ponsioen talks about normalization, or why it's a good idea to compare your product's impacts to Average Joe's.
The New Calculation Engine In SimaPro 8
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.
What’s Brewing in the SimaPro LCA Databases?
Several new or updated LCA databases and methods are scheduled to be released in a SimaPro update soon. Each dataset is a valuable addition to the SimaPro library, broadening your options for doing LCAs according to your specifications.
Updated carbon footprint calculation factors
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?
How industry associations promote sustainability
VIDEO | Helping SMEs at a sector level
What’s new in SimaPro 8?
PRé is proud to present the new release of the world’s leading LCA software, SimaPro 8, with an updated database ecoinvent 3 and the introduction of regionalized water footprint methods.
SETAC Europe: A multidisciplinary approach to research and policy
The 23rd SETAC Annual Europe Meeting was held May 12 - 16 in Glasgow (glasgow.setac.eu). The event was attended by members from all over the world, most of whom work on research unrelated to LCA.
Ore Grade Decrease As Life Cycle Impact Indicator for Metal Scarcity
In the life cycle assessment (LCA) of products, the increasing scarcity of metal resources is currently addressed in a preliminary way. Here, we propose a new method on the basis of global ore grade information to assess the importance of the extraction of metal resources in the life cycle of products.