Mark Huijbregts joins TNO to bring sustainability assessment to the next level

Sustainability assessment methods

The environmental challenges that Mark Huijbregts wishes to solve are complex and interlinked, and require scientifically sound sustainability assessment methods. These methods are based on life-cycle models: models that demonstrate the environmental consequences of products, services, and technologies over their complete life cycle (from production, use, up to the end-of-life stage). These methods and models are of vital importance to making more sustainable decisions in industry and society.

TNO

With technical, social, and economic expertise, TNO (the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research) wants to help governments and businesses on their way to becoming more sustainable. The sustainability assessment methods are implemented in several of TNO’s key programmes, for example the system transition to sustainable plastic value chains, sustainable chemical industry, and circular and sustainable materials for building and infrastructure.

Scientific quality

Mark Huijbregts will play a pivotal role in increasing the scientific quality in several of TNO’s domains. He will help develop improved and comprehensive integral sustainability assessments towards a more sustainable future (circular economy, sustainable lifestyles, safe and sustainable by design). He will also contribute to assessing multiple planetary limits (regarding climate change, biodiversity and pollution) across TNO.