by Julia Cilleruelo | Dec 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
Hydrogen is emerging as a promising solution for cleaner, more sustainable transport, especially for trains, buses, and other mobility services. But new technologies don’t succeed on innovation alone. Public opinion, trust, and understanding matter just as much to... by Julia Cilleruelo | Dec 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
The STOPP EU Project is launching the campaign “Free LCA for Recyclers”, with the goal of providing environmental reporting for plastic recyclers on their recycled plastics. The study will follow ISO 14040/44 and can be used for e.g. carbon footprint... by Julia Cilleruelo | Nov 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
As part of the MOST-H2 project EU Project, we are conducting a survey to assess the social acceptance of hydrogen storage options and hydrogen-related technologies, with a particular focus on Metal–Organic Framework (MOF)-based hydrogen storage systems in... by Andreas Ciroth | Aug 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
Recently, someone asked me about the social assessment proposed by the Orienting project [1], specifically about the social databases compared there. I admit I was not aware, so I checked. Lead authors of the report and deliverable are Rosan Harmens and Mark Goedkoop... by Ashrakat Hamed | Nov 27, 2024 | Topics
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... by Julia Cilleruelo | Sep 26, 2023 | Conference
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... by Andreas Ciroth | Apr 18, 2021 | Personal
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,... by Pia Lemberger | Mar 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
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... by Julian Rickert | Oct 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
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... by Andreas Ciroth | Oct 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...