SimaPro Craft contains a number of impact assessment methods, which are used to calculate impact assessment results. The list below gives an indication of what is currently included in the most recent SimaPro Craft (formerly SimaPro Desktop) version. Some older methods can still be found in the superseded section of the methods library.
For more information on these methods, please check the methods manual.
European methods
CML-IA baseline
CML-IA non-baseline
Ecological Scarcity 2021
EN 15804 + A2 (adapted)
Environmental Footprint 3.1 (adapted)
Environmental Prices (3 perspectives)
Global methods
IMPACT World+ (3 variations)
LC-IMPACT (8 variations)
ReCiPe 2016 Endpoint (3 perspectives)
ReCiPe 2016 Midpoint (3 perspectives)
North American methods
BEES+
TRACI 2.2
Single issue methods
Cumulative Energy Demand
Cumulative Energy Demand (LHV)
Cumulative Exergy Demand
Freshwater eutrophication (Payen et al., 2021)
IPCC 2021 (8 variations)
Land use biodiversity (Chaudhary et al., 2015)
MarILCA
Mineral resource dissipation (Poncelet 2022)
Selected LCI results
Selected LCI results, additional
USEtox 2 (recommended + interim)
USEtox 2 (recommended only)
Water footprint
AWARE
Hoekstra et al 2012 (Water Scarcity)
A number of methods are moved to the superseded category since it is no longer supported by PRé. You can find which methods belong to this category on this page.