Quarterly newsletter | PRé Sustainability | June 2021 Hello Marcus! Welcome to our second quarterly newsletter of 2021. Here we’d like to share with you our latest news and resources: insights about an absolute environmental sustainability assessment methodology, latest customer stories and updates from the Community-Driven Life Cycle Inventory initiative. Also, you’ll find an overview of the best-known standards and guidelines for sustainability practitioners, news on EF 3.0-compliant data provision, new vacancies at PRé and an invitation to meet at the LCM 2021 conference. Last but not least, SimaPro 9.2 release is just around the corner. Stay tuned on our channels to hear more!
FEATURED ARTICLE
Company-level AESAs: putting your organizational footprint in the right contextAbsolute environmental sustainability assessments (AESAs) are a novel methodology that promises to determine whether humankind can stay within the planet’s carrying capacity—and if so, how. Up to now, case studies have focused on the impact of countries and sectors, and little attention has been paid to assessing how companies perform. With that in mind, PRé’s Analyst Hendrik Oosterhoff collaborated with a team at the Technical University of Denmark to develop a solution. And the results look
CUSTOMER STORIES
Helping the floriculture sector reduce its environmental footprintThe Floriculture Sustainability Initiative set itself the objective of reducing the carbon footprint for selected flowers and plants by 2025. PRé took a data-driven approach to support this ambition.
Calculating biodiversity footprints in the banking sectorHow to calculate the biodiversity footprint of the bank’s investments? Together with ASN Bank, PRé and CREM developed a method to help the bank achieve its goal – a net positive impact on biodiversity by 2030.
Improving Loop’s circular model with environmental footprint informationLoop is a global platform that offers consumer products in reusable packaging. For their partners Procter & Gamble, PRé used a combination of circularity and life cycle metrics to help design a circular model and assess the impact of products delivered in reusable packaging through Loop. Now P&G can also calculate future scenarios independently using the online tool SimaPro Share. As Loop brings back the old ‘milkman’ model, this could inspire other system changes that go well
COMMUNITY-DRIVEN INITIATIVE
Community-Driven Life Cycle InventoryHave you heard of CDLCI? The Community-Driven Life Cycle Inventory initiative is on a mission to help create and distribute high-quality regional and sectoral data for sustainability practitioners. It’s community-driven, so we invite you to join or share ideas. We are proud to already have Blonk Consultants, IDEA and ecoinvent on board!
USEFUL RESOURCES Life cycle-based sustainability standards and guidelinesStandards can help organizations keep abreast of sustainability developments and reporting by providing credible and comparable environmental metrics at the product and organization level. You may be familiar with the ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 on life cycle assessment, but what other standards are out there? And which ones are under development? PRé’s Analyst Georgios Pallas collected an overview of the best-known standards and guidelines for sustainability practitioners.
NEWS EF 3.0-compliant data provisionExciting news: Together with the ecoinvent association (lead) and Blonk Consultants we joined forces to provide EF 3.0-compliant This will contribute to the availability of the life cycle inventory data. Namely, the consortium along with trusted partners will provide datasets for 1300 processes in various sectors including, plastics, renewable materials, agro-food, textiles, chemicals and others.
TALENT PRé is hiring!We’re looking for new colleagues to join our team in the Netherlands: If you recognize yourself in the profile and feel the drive to make a change, we’d love to hear from you! Still looking for something else? Take a look at our other vacancies.
EVENTS Save the date: LCM 2021 conferenceLCM 2021, the 10th international conference on Life Cycle Management, will take place online on September 5-8, 2021 under the theme ‘Building a Sustainable Future Based on Innovation and Digitalization’. PRé is proud to be an Exclusive Partner and continue to develop valuable collaboration with the life cycle community. Our team will be there, and we hope to meet you at one of the sessions and welcome to our virtual stand. You can also schedule an online meeting with us during the event to gain more insights or discuss your case. We hope to see you at LCM 2021!
If you have any questions, comments or would like to hear how PRé can add value to your organization, please get in touch.   
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