Best Practice in Applied LCA and Carbon Footprinting

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“Best Practice in Applied LCA and Carbon Footprinting” Oct. 27

Pre-Symposium Workshops on Sustainable Supply Chain Management

Oct. 28

Symposium “Best Practice in Applied LCA and Carbon Footprinting”

Oct. 29

Product Sustainability Solutions – GaBi User Conference

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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Carbon Footprinting (CF) have moved into the limelight as strategic tools for sustainability leaders such as Apple, Alcan Packaging, Carbon Trust, Volkswagen, and others.

Experts from these highly successful companies share their views and expertise on their success with you: Michael Betz Managing Director

Success Factors – the real facts behind their success stories. How LCA and CF can be utilized to gain competitive advantages!

Steps to Success – identify the value drivers – get top level support and embed LCA and CF in the management system!

Maintaining Success – lessons learnt and best practices in day to day operations such as IT-integration, integration in product development and environmental communication to clients and other stakeholders.

Exclusive Networking Opportunities – face-to-face round table and plenary discussions, with a direct exchanging of ideas at roundtable and plenary discussions.

Programme October 27 - 29, 2009 October 27

Workshops on Sustainable Supply Chain Management 9.00-12.00

13.00-16.00

Achieving Social and Environmental Sustainability within your Supply Chain Tracking and Calculating Carbon for your Supply Chain

October 28 8.45 9.00 9.10-11.20 11.50-12.40 13.00-13.30 13.30-14.50 15.20-16.35 17.10-17.40 19.30

Registration Welcome Constructing the frame Best Practice in Implementation of Life Cycle Management Lunch Roll-out of Life Cycle Thinking Exellence in Corporate and Product Carbon Footprinting Plenary Discussion Evening Event

October 29

Product Sustainability Solutions 9.30-16.00 9.30-16.00

GaBi User Conference Getting Started

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Constructing the Frame – Societal and Methodological Boundaries

9.00-11.20

9.10-9.35 Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Eyerer

LCA pioneer, founder PE INTERNATIONAL, former director IKP – University of Stuttgart and Fraunhofer ICT Twenty Years Life Cycle Assessment – the breakthroughs in twenty minutes Starting from the visionary idea of placing environmental aspects into business decisions, the Stuttgart Cluster has become the epicentre in LCA and largest group in applied LCA worldwide. This development was supported by method, software and database developments as well as active participation in standardisation.

9.35-10.00 Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus Sedlbauer

Director University of Stuttgart LBP and Fraunhofer IBP Shaping the Future: From LCA to Sustainability Assessment Starting from today’s research the development towards full sustainability assessment considering ecological, economic and social aspects will be high-lighted. A perspective will be given on application-oriented research to meet the future needs of people and society as well as industry and economy.

10.00-10.30 Cem Özdemir

Chairman of the German political party DIE GRÜNEN (The Green Party) and member of the European Parliament Europe as Driver for Global Environmental Advancement and Action

10.30-10.55 Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Finkbeiner

Chair of Sustainable Engineering, TU Berlin, Chairman of ISO TC 207/SC5 LCA, Steering Committee Member of GHG protocol initiative, leading the CF project of UNEP/SETAC Status and Trends towards Measuring Sustainability Method development and international standardisation to meet the demand for pragmatic yet scientifically sound assessment methods – from footprinting via LCA to sustainability analysis.

10.55-11.20 Dr.-Ing. Stefan Krinke

Head of Environmental Analysis Product, Volkswagen Environmentally Friendly Vehicle Design throughout the Life Cycle Lessons learnt during 15 years experience with life cycle thinking in the automobile industry. Key factors for successful implementation of life cycle thinking into the environmental strategy and the processes of an international car manufacturer will be discussed.

11.20-11.50 Roundtable & Coffeebreak Best Practices in Implementation of Life Cycle Management

11.50-12.40

11.50-12.15

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Hesselbach

University of Kassel IPL, Eco-friendly products & processes, CEO Natur Pur AG, Director Renewable Energies, HSE AG Carbon Footprints of Energy Products

Application of LCA and Carbon Footprints for product evaluation and design of energy products at a regional energy supplier aiming to be a leader in Germanys sustainable energy supply.

12.15-12.40 Dr. Gerald Rebitzer Director Product Sustainability, Alcan Packaging Implementing Life Cycle Thinking in a Multinational Multi-Material Packaging Company The presentation will focus both on tools as well as organizational aspects for implementing life cycle thinking in industry. Practical approaches to manage the sustainability of products – taking the complete value chain into account – will be discussed.

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12.40-13.00 Roundtable 13.00-13.30 Lunch Roll-out of Life Cycle Thinking

Excellence in Corporate and Product Carbon Footprinting 13.30-14.50

13.30-13.55 Erwin Ostermann

15.20-16.35

15.20-15.45

Kevin Ramm

Carbon Footprinting Solutions Manager, Carbon Trust Making Product Carbon Footprinting a Reality

Building and spreading in-house LCA competence as an integrated part of the innovation and environmental management at Evonik Industries.

The Carbon Trust view Product Carbon Footprinting and Labelling as powerful means to driving carbon reduction in product life cycles. This presentation highlights some of the challenges in making product carbon footprinting a reality for the corporate sector and outlines our work towards solutions for reliable, comparable and cost-effective footprinting and labelling.

13.55-14.20

15.45-16.10

Rick Chin

Ingrid Amon-Tran

Director Bio and Environmental Technology, Process Technology & Engineering, Evonik Degussa GmbH Getting Life Cycle Assessment up to Speed

Director of Product Innovation, DassaultSystèmes Solid Works Corp.

Bringing LCA to the Mainstream Design Community The strategies selected to mainstream LCA and how they influenced the design of the SolidWorks Sustainability product will be discussed as well as how this may lead to future co-innovation opportunities between DassaultSystèmes and other companies.

14.20-14.50 Henrik Dissing Head of Cleantech Program DI-Confederation of Danish Industries The Climate Compass: A Tool to Calculate CO2 Emissions for Businesses For over a year, DI has provided a calculator measuring carbon emissions for Danish businesses.

The presentation will concentrate on the development and use of this essential tool.

14.50-15.20 Roundtable & Coffeebreak

Senior Manager Environment & Chemistry, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG Carbon Footprinting in the Printing Industry With the first climate-neutral printer on the market, the printing industry is a pioneer in applied CF. Highlighted here are the links between corporate and product CF in this industry and the revealing of Heidelberg’s best practices in confronting these challenges – from improved IT integration to excellent client communication – in order to achieve a competitive advantage in a difficult market.

16.10-16.35 Andy Baynes Head of Environmental Technologies, Apple Inc. Member of the steering committee of CARE Innovation for future sustainable electronics and the steering board of EPEAT Practical Experiences in Carbon Footprint Assessment Including product greenhouse gas emissions to develop a true baseline for a corporate carbon footprint.

16.35-17.05 Roundtable & Coffeebreak 17.10-17.40 Plenary Discussion

19.30 Evening Event

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Your benefits include:

· Practical approaches to assessing and defining your Supply Chain · A clear understanding of different risks and benefits for businesses · Helpful Tools · A step-by-step practical approach to measuring your Carbon

Footprint

Workshop 1

9.00-12.00

Achieving Social and Environmental Sustainability within your Supply Chain Identifying Strategically Critical Areas in the Supply Chain where Businesses Protect/Create Value

Workshop 2

13.00-16.00

Tracking and Calculating Carbon for your Supply Chain

Agenda:

· Current sourcing trends · Breaking down your life cycle · What tools exist? · Using the results – How to internally set targets and create benchmarks

· How are leading companies today “greening”

their products and Supply Chains for competitive advantage?

· Case Studies – What are the goals and benefits of Supply Chain efforts at Wal-Mart, IKEA, Levi Strauss, Nike, etc.

Agenda: · What is a Sustainable Supply Chain? · How to define your Supply Chain? · Analysing the commercial viability (Risk & Opportunities) · Best practices for implementing Supply Chain reduction strategies · How to engage suppliers to reduce their social and environmental impacts within the Supply Chain?

Oct. 29, 2009 9.30 - 16.00 Product Sustainability Solutions – GaBi User Conference Your benefits include:

Workshop 2

· Getting tips from the experts · Learning how to get the most out of GaBi · Maximising your modelling efficiency · Having your say in the GaBi of tomorrow

Workshop 1

Getting started

9.30-16.00

Use this unique opportunity to exchange with other GaBi users and gain insights directly from the GaBi team!

Agenda:

9.30-16.00

First insights into LCA and Product Carbon Footprints with GaBi

Agenda:

GaBi User Conference

· Propelling your business with LCA · Product Carbon Footprinting according to PAS 2050 · Learning from industry case-studies · Gaining knowledge and profit from GaBi 4 · GaBi 4 in everyday products

· Latest features of the GaBi software family · New tips and tricks for modelling in GaBi 4 · Easy Carbon Footprint modelling in GaBi 4 · Discussion on common LCA modelling challenges –

send you queries today!

· Presentation of client case studies

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Sustainability, from consulting to software.

Sustainability awareness is the road to long-term corporate operation and a vibrant environment. PE INTERNATIONAL has been steadily guiding companies all over the world along this road since 1989. Today, PE INTERNATIONAL is the international market leader in strategic consultancy, software solutions and extensive services in the field of sustainability. Serving market leaders around the world, PE has offices in Stuttgart, Vienna, Copenhagen, Manchester, Tokyo, Taipei, Perth, Boston and Kuala Lumpur.

PE INTERNATIONAL provides conscientious companies with cutting-edge tools, in-depth knowledge and an unparalleled spectrum of experience in making both corporate operations and products more sustainable. Applied methods include implementing management systems, developing sustainability indicators, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Carbon Footprint, Design for Environment (DfE) and Environmental Product Declarations (EPD), technology benchmarking, or eco-efficiency analysis, emissions management, clean development mechanism projects and strategic CSR consulting.

Moreover, PE INTERNATIONAL offers two leading software solutions, with the GaBi software for product sustainability and the SoFi software for corporate sustainability. Over 500 companies and institutes worldwide put their trust in PE INTERNATIONAL’s consultancy and software, including market and branch leaders such as Alcan, Allianz, Bayer, Daimler, Deutsche Post/DHL, Rockwool, Siemens, Toyota, ThyssenKrupp and Volkswagen.

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