Module D is an important part of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) because it looks at the environmental impacts of recycling materials or recovering energy when a product reaches the end of its life. However, it can be tricky to use, especially with the EN...
After quite some time recluded in Berlin due to pandemic restrictions, the last months have been comparatively full with conferences. Last week, Andreas Ciroth was presenting the LCA Collaboration Server and views on data exchange at the 84th LCA Discussion Forum in...
Sad news that Robert Ackermann passed away recently; he was finishing his PhD when I started mine, at the TU Berlin, in 1998. Having worked in the east-German academy of science before the reunification, he always seemed the person for surviving in absurd,...
For some time now, we have the vision of providing an opportunity to not offer the download of LCI databases for use in openLCA but also complete case studies. Many LCA practitioners might have been working on case studies during the past years, with a noteworthy...
The European Commission published the ‚Product Environmental Footprint‘ (PEF) in 2013 in order to create one common European environmental assessment methodology for products and services. Although there is a lot of controversy around the PEF methodology, PEF is...
Since October 1 2020, we are not selling GaBi databases on Nexus any more. This is due to a decision from the Sphera company, new owner of thinkstep, who do not foresee selling databases to resellers (as we are). Sphera stresses that it is not linked to us especially...
From June 15th to 17th, the Social Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA) conference 2020 took place in online format, after it needed to be shifted from the original face-to-face format. Posters were presented in Twitter, presentations were prerecorded in video format, and...
I took some time to write the text ‘Product Environmental Footprint – can’t we do better in LCA’, mainly driven by the feeling that with all the effort put into Environmental Footprint, and the high potential a successful implementation has, it...
From 29 November to 1 December 2017 three colleagues from GreenDelta attended the second consortium meeting of the ITERAMS project in Barcelona. While the first meeting in June in Kevitsa, Finland served to get to know each other, define the work approach and...
December 14, 5 pm (CET) December 19, 9 am (CET) We are happy to announce that we have launched the second version of the PSILCA database. PSILCA is an innovative database for Social Life Cycle Assessment aiming to provide transparent and up-to-date information on...
