News
Next phase of the Roundtable starts in March 2021
The Roundtable started in 2013. Since then more than 20 companies worked together in the development of a pragmatic and robust methodology to assess social impacts in value chains. As of March 2021 we are [...]
Initiating an ISO standard for Social LCA?
On June 4th‑ a workshop was organised during the ISO meeting of the Technical committee 207 in Berlin. The purpose was to understand opportunities, state of the art and potential support for a new LCA [...]
EU to develop criteria for social impacts
On April 5th a large meeting (70 people) was organized by DG Growth with the aim to discuss how and if the European market would benefit from the development of social standards. The director, Gwenole [...]
Events
On-lineTraining | How to apply Product Social Metrics in business (January, 2021)
Recently the fifth iteration of the Handbook for Product Social Impact Assessment and an updated methodology was released. The companies invest in this because addressing the social impacts along the lifecycle is somewhat as a next [...]
On-boarding Phase 7!
The current phase 6 of the Product Social Metrics Roundtable will come to an end at the LCM conference in Poznan in September. We are planning to release a series of new case studies based [...]
Forum: Towards implementation of Product Social Metrics
LCM-Poznan: September 2nd., 2019 : 5.00-7.00 p.m. In phase 6 the companies of the Roundtable have worked on an Implementation Guide, that helps companies to implement product social metrics in your organisation and guides you [...]
April Meeting at BASF/ Ludwigshafen
The first meeting of Phase 6 was at Nestlé in Frankfurt in January 2019 and the second meeting of Phase 6 was hosted by BASF on April 8 and 9th at the BASF premises in [...]