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Interpretation of metrics: DALYs and damage to human health

DALYs measure the gap between an ideal situation in which everyone lives to the standard life expectancy in perfect health and the actual … See more

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Obscure impacts demystified: Ionizing radiation

WEBIonizing radiation has the potential to interact with and change molecules, and damage or even kill cells. The amount of radiation absorbed by a person’s body is called …

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Weighting: applying a value judgment to LCA results

WEBThe weighted results all have the same unit and can be added up to create one single score for the environmental impact of a product or scenario. Simply put, …

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The SDG series: evaluating Sustainable Development Goals 1-6

WEBSDG 1: No poverty. Ending poverty was one of the most successful Millennium Goals (the predecessor of the SDGs). In 1990, 36% of the world lived in …

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How to unite the two viewpoints on toxicity

WEBLife cycle assessment (LCA) is an approach that evaluates a product’s environmental impact, including the toxic impact of chemicals on ecosystems and …

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Obscure impacts demystified: Acidification

WEBObscure impacts demystified: Acidification. Dubbed “the evil twin of global warming,” ocean acidification is a growing crisis that poses a threat to both water …

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Obscure impacts: Stratospheric ozone depletion

WEBSince it has several severe adverse effects on human health, plant growth, marine food chains and biogeochemical cycles, it is important to remove the source of …

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Normalization: new developments in normalization sets

WEBThere are three developments I want to mention in particular. A new normalization set was published recently for the ILCD methods compilation with a …

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Quantifying your activities’ impact on biodiversity

WEBQuantifying your activities’ impact on biodiversity. Biodiversity refers to the variety of organisms present in an ecosystem, or the genetic variation within an area. …

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Making LCA results count

WEBEndpoint results are typically shown as an impact on human health, ecosystem quality, and resource depletion (figure below). These three endpoints capture …

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The best impact assessment developments of 2019: other topics

WEBReview of health risks of chemicals in consumer products. Many chemicals are used in consumer products, while our understanding of their exposure pathways and …

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Calculate the costs of pollution in SimaPro with Environmental

WEBA new method is available in the SimaPro 9.0 release: Environmental Prices. This method expresses the external costs of one additional unit of pollution in money …

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Measuring sustainability. Part I: the basics of a sustainability index

WEBGoodGuide is a website that rates products on health, environment, and social impacts. It compiles data from many sources and translates that data into …

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Obscure impacts demystified: Ecotoxicity

WEBControlling toxic impacts, therefore, improves food security and human health as well. Some cases of severe ecotoxicity are now sadly famous. In one of the …

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How to make an accessible life cycle hotspot analysis

WEBPublished. 18 August, 2015. Written by. Tommie Ponsioen. Life cycle hotspot analysis can help confirm your intuition or lead you to new insights towards determining a robust …

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Introduction to water footprinting

WEBSome only include human health impact, while the methods by Pfister include impacts on human health, ecosystems, and resources and are also compatible with …

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Social impact assessment

WEBA method for assessing the impact of novel technology. For PROSUITE, PRé helped develop a novel sustainability impact assessment method for technology, including …

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Important impact assessment developments in 2020

WEBImportant impact assessment developments of 2020. Despite the unusual year 2020 turned out to be, there have still been plenty of interesting developments in …

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Uncovering toxicity impacts to improve regional banana production

WEBThe freshwater ecotoxicity impacts from banana production in Panama were about 30 times higher compared to production in Ecuador. The chemicals that contribute the most to the …

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Bio-based products are always better than fossil fuel-based

WEBIn a time where concerns over climate change and depletion of non-renewable resources are increasing drastically, it seems easy to accept that bio-based …

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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) explained

WEBLife cycle assessment (LCA), or life cycle analysis, is a pivotal method for evaluating the environmental impacts of a product, process, or service across its entire …

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