HILCSA supports up to around 80 detailed indicators, which are aggregated into easy-to-understand indices and figures, and is implemented in openLCA with data sources such as soca and #ecoinvent.
This makes HILCSA especially relevant for researchers, policymakers, industry, and civil society who need a robust way to compare products, production systems, and technologies, identify burden shifting, and support sustainability decisions across value chains and sectors.
For the field of #LCA and LCSA, this is an important step. Fifteen years after Jeroen Guinée helped inspire the field with his 2011 paper "Life Cycle Assessment: Past, Present, and Future", HILCSA is the first robust and mature integrated LCSA method available. It goes beyond separate assessments of environmental, social, and economic aspects and brings them together in a single, coherent framework. That makes LCSA more practical, more transparent, and more usable for decision support in real-world sustainability transitions. Maybe as a digital sustainability product passport for European Commission?
I’m very grateful to everyone who contributed along the way through collaboration, feedback, and constructive debate. Looking forward to what comes next.

https://nexus.openlca.org/database/HILCSA