Scientific insight is continuously improving, providing us with information that helps our impact assessment calculations be more accurate and better able to predict environmental impacts and how much our products contribute to climate change.

Food sustainability is perhaps one of the most crucial areas for the LCA industry and for consumers. This is the first in a serie of articles that will be highlighting important questions and developments in the field of agricultural LCA. First up: why is agriculture-related LCA such a huge topic?

Sustainability is not just important on the product level but needs to be supported by a sustainable business model. Eric Mieras, Managing Director at PRé, dives into what that means.

PRé founder Mark Goedkoop won the 2014 SETAC Lifetime Achievement in LCA Award. In this interview, he shares his thoughts about the future.

This is part I in a two-part series on quantifying sustainability. Part I outlines how quantifying supply chain sustainability is a powerful way to manage business risks. Part II will give an overview of the tools available.

This is the third in a series of articles where PRé’s own consultants explain a step in the LCIA process. Ellen Meijer is an experienced technical consultant at PRé. She helps companies understand their effect on the environment and make better decisions. This article explains weighting, the fourth step in LCIA, and the controversies in the field.

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!

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.