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Insights and inspiration from the SimaPro team.

Reclaiming time, amplifying impact: a new chapter for LCA experts

Discover how LCA professionals can reclaim time, reshape sustainability strategy, and amplify their impact when using the right tools.

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Make LCA scalable and actionable without sacrificing quality

Scaling life cycle assessment (LCA) across full product portfolios is becoming a business priority. Configurable models and automated data flows make it achievable.

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Making sustainability data work in your IT landscape

Without good governance, sustainability data adds risk. Discover how IT leaders can manage sustainability data as part of a reliable, future-ready digital backbone.

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The hidden data debt in your sustainability reporting

IT leaders face growing pressure to manage sustainability data debt. Explore how proactive integration can reduce risk and support smarter decisions.

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Beyond compliance: how sustainability drives business value

Sustainability moves from cost to value driver when strategy, data, and systems align. Here’s how to embed it across your business.

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Sustainability fundamentals

Articles on key sustainability concepts by PRé Sustainability, the developer of SimaPro.

Life Cycle Assessment explained

Learn what the four steps of life cycle assessment are and why LCA is the tool of choice for informed changemakers.

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Product Carbon Footprint standards: which one to choose?

Explore the most important standards and methodologies for carbon footprint and how to select one that fits your situation.

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Circular economy and LCA make each other stronger

The circular economy is an inspiring idea. With the power of LCA behind it, this inspirational concept can fuel real change.

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LCA standards and guidelines

This overview of life cycle-based sustainability standards and guidelines helps you to keep abreast of developments in global and regional sustainability reporting.

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ReCiPe impact assessment method

ReCiPe is a method for the life cycle impact assessment (LCIA). Its primary objective is to transform the long list of life cycle inventory results into a limited number of indicator scores.

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A guide to Life Cycle Costing (LCC)

Life cycle costing (LCC) is similar to life cycle assessment. In this article, you will learn about the similarities, the different types of LCC and how to create a life cycle costing method in SimaPro.

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Tutorials

Manuals and hands-on tutorials from the SimaPro Help Center.

How-to: Updating to the latest software version

With an active license, you benefit from regular updates of SimaPro Craft. To ensure a smooth update, these three videos will guide you through the process.

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Tutorial: Getting started with SimaPro Craft

This tutorial guides you through SimaPro Craft and covers all basic features, building an LCA model, using input-output data, and addressing uncertainties.

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Manual: Methods in SimaPro Craft

The methods manual describes which impact assessment methods are available in SimaPro Craft and how they have been implemented in the software.

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