In the last couple of years, with the increasing uptake of openLCA as a software for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), we have seen a great increase also in the demand for our trainings. We have reached a point where we would like to offer others the possibility to give...
When you start openLCA on macOS the first time you may see an error message like this: The reason for this is that openLCA is not a signed application and the security settings of macOS do not allow to run it. To fix this, do the following steps: move...
EN15804 is the European norm for Environmental Product Declarations, EPDs, and provides core rules for the Product Category Rules, PCRs, especially for the construction sector. EN15804 supports life cycle modelling and calculation, and yet some of the indicators...
The LCA Collaboration Server was updated to version 1.3 on 08th February 2022. The Collaboration Server provided for our hosting services was also updated on the same day, and the new installation can be accessed in our download page. The new manual available for this...
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]....
