Worldwide, about 25% of all life cycle assessments are related to the agri-food sector. Good databases such as Agri-footprint therefore have a substantial impact. Agri-footprint has been available to the LCA community since May 2014. In December 2015, Agri-footprint 2.0 will be made available in SimaPro.

In 2015, all member States of the United Nations adopted seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that would help us achieve a more sustainable, inclusive, prosperous and healthy world by 2030. At the beginning of 2020, we are five years in and have ten years left. A good time to reflect on the progress towards each goal so far, in a 3-part series.

In a circular economy, the intention is to produce no waste or pollution. Instead, products, parts and materials are used, cared for, repaired, reused and recycled as much as possible. This requires new and innovative approaches to business, and assessment methods such as LCA to measure the effect. In our circular economy miniseries, we’ll address five ways to apply the circular economy and lca in your business. Today: product as a service.

The European Commission’s Environmental Footprinting (EF) pilot phase has successfully ended. Of the 27 pilot projects, 14 have defined their product environmental footprint category rules (PEFCRs) or organisation environmental footprint sector rules (OEFSRs) for the European market and another 9 aim to do so by October. Now, the PEF method is available for use by anyone who is interested. Read on for a brief review and to see what’s next!

The LCA community proudly strives to cover everything in their assessments: wide system boundaries, the whole lifecycle of a product and many different environmental impact categories. That means that sustainability practitioners have to be able to talk about concepts like eutrophication, photochemical ozone formation, acidification and ecotoxicity. You probably know the meaning of the words, but do you know what it means for the planet? Why is it bad? What causes it? How can we measure it? This series will give you the information you need to work with these concepts in your sustainability efforts. Today’s topic: stratospheric ozone depletion. You might think that’s a solved issue, but it isn’t.

It doesn’t happen that often that you turn 30 and feel like things have just started. PRé has been around since 1990. In that time, we have developed the world’s leading life cycle assessment software and some of the most widely used methodologies for LCA. Not to mention the many interesting clients and partners we have gotten to work with. Plenty to make us proud. And there is plenty of work to do for the next 30 years as well. PRé Managing Director Eric Mieras looks back and ahead.