The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the sixth Assessment Report (AR6) containing an updated table of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) metrics[1] that can be further applied to calculate different Impact Assessment categories. Then, a new method was...
Maybe you have heard of the log4j vulnerability (first discovered on a Microsoft Minecraft server) – log4j is a broadly used library to provide logging functionality. It is also used in openLCA. We would like to inform all openLCA users that the openLCA software is...
Ecoinvent has expanded their database licences and incorporated two new licences for their database to cater the current data demand: Developer licence – only licence that allows ecoinvent data to be in software tools. Enterprise licence – for multi-user contract...
Since the 14th December 2021 there is a modified version of Agri-footprint 5.0 (version 3) published in openLCA Nexus, and available for download: https://nexus.openlca.org/database/Agri-footprint This modification was needed to correct the flow “carbon dioxide”...
ecoinvent 3.8 now available for openLCA. The latest version of the ecoinvent database, version 3.8, released on 21st September 2021, includes major updates and 360 new processes (datasets), 700 updated datasets and 50 new products. A few of the major updates and...
In the past, the ecoinvent database has been offered for free for academic users of non-OECD countries. ecoinvent now has new regulations in place for the free licence. This licence is now available for academic users of Low- and Low-middle-Income countries only [1]....
GaBi databases 2021.2 have been released by the Sphera team and have been adapted to openLCA. They are now available for GaBi licence holders. That is, users that pay GaBi maintenance through Nexus, or users that already have a GaBi licence and want to transfer to...
A new version of soca database for openLCA can already be ordered through the Nexus website! We have released the latest version of the soca database (version 2), which combines PSILCA v.3 and ecoinvent v.3.7.1. Therefore, an ecoinvent 3.7.1 licence is required. soca...
In a recent training, a question came up whether a common modelling and calculation is correct which is maybe interesting for others too; this post therefore tries to explain, using a very simple LCA model and system, which seems rather straightforward: The picture...
When performing an LCA, it is common to ask oneself if the used database and Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) method could be used together. openLCA has an LCIA method package, now in version 2.1.1, with over 40 methods that you can download in Nexus [1]. This...
