SimaPro Life cycle assessment Social impact assessment
A method for assessing the impact of novel technology
For PROSUITE, PRé helped develop a novel sustainability impact assessment method for technology, including social impact assessment and new sustainability metrics. This helps understand the effect of these hard-to-predict technologies.
Eco-indicator 95 | Manuals
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.
SimaPro 8 | Programming the COM Interface
SimaPro Life cycle assessment
An inventory of environmental emissions in the EU
To monitor progress on sustainability in the EU, the Joint Research Center of the EU asked PRé to help develop an innovative and robust large database describing environmental emissions and extractions in the EU between 1990 and 2010.
Social Hotspots database now available for SimaPro LCA software
The Social Hotspots Database system license is now available in the SimaPro LCA software. This database is the first comprehensive database for performing Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA).
SimaPro Life cycle assessment
Developing an LCA method for resource extraction
The European Commission requested the development of a life cycle assessment method for resource extraction impacts. PRé was part of a task group of 16 partners, coordinated by the Radboud University Nijmegen, developing this method.
Avoid greenwashing: transparency is the key
Understanding the landscape for sustainability metrics
A sustainable future for your organization starts by understanding your business’s sustainability landscape. In this article, we share how to start with an integration roadmap and a sustainability metrics SWOT analysis.