6th PCF World Summit
Environmental Footprinting in Europe and Beyond: How Will it Shape the Corporate Agenda?
Berlin, 26-27 October 2011
Chair: Jacob Bilabel | Managing Director THEMA1, Germany
Chair Information:
Jacob Bilabel is the Managing Director of Berlin based think-do-tank THEMA1,
specialised in accelerating the transition to a low carbon society. He is the founder of the Green Music Initiative, a platform for the music and entertainment industry to coordinate projects in the fight against climate change.
Previously, he worked in the management of Universal Music Germany. He also set up MySpace’s operations in Germany and became part of the social media advisory board of the Green Party. In 2005 elections, he was a personal consultant to Joschka Fischer, Germany’s Foreign Minister at this time. Jacob Bilabel holds a magister artium from University of Hamburg in linguistics and social anthropology. He is a mentor of the Akademie der Künste (University of the Arts) in Berlin, a founding member of the Re-Design Deutschland Initiative, and a board member of Berlin’s Chamber of Commerce for Creative Industries.
DAY 1, WEDNESDAY, 26 OCTOBER 2011
08:00 – 09:00 Check-in and welcome coffee
09:00 – 10:00 Opening and introduction
Introduction to international developments in carbon and environmental footprinting
Rasmus Priess | PCF World Forum / THEMA1, Germany
Speaker information:
A graduate in industrial engineering, Rasmus Priess oversees the PCF Project
Germany, Platform for Climate Compatible Consumption (www. pcf-project.de) and the PCF World Forum (www.pcf-world-forum.org). He serves as technical expert and facilitator
at THEMA1 on climate change, carbon footprinting and supply chain management.
Previously he has worked as an independent consultant and facilitator on
energy, climate change, and business development. His projects have included studies and fieldwork in building energy infrastructure in Senegal, Yemen, and other developing countries. Rasmus Priess is a member of the steering committee of the WRI/WBCSD GHG Protocol Product and Value Chain Initiative and the German mirror committees for the new ISO standards on “Carbon footprint of products“ and “Carbon footprint of organisations“.
The introduction will provide an overview of the summit agenda and presentations and place them in a larger context of international developments in carbon and environmental footprinting.
10:00 – 11:00 Major developments in carbon and environmental footprinting
The EU Environmental Footprinting Project within the Sustainable Consumption and Production Action Plan: Status and outlook
Pavel Misiga | DG Environment, European Commission
Speaker information:
A graduate of Comenius University, London School of Economics and Princeton University, Pavel Misiga worked as an environmental consultant and a government official in his home country Slovakia. He served as a director at the Ministry of Environment and advisor to the State Secretary for Environment. During Slovakia’s EU accession negotiations he represented his country in the negotiations on environmental issues. He joined the European Commission in 2003. In the period 2003-2006 he was responsible for the implementation of environmental projects financed by the Cohesion Fund. Since 2006 he has been the head of the Environment and Industry and later the Sustainable Production and Consumption unit. He is currently responsible for the development of resource efficiency and sustainable consumption and production policies.
DG Environment is now working together with the European Commission’s Joint Research Center | Institute for the Environment and Sustainability and other European Commission services towards the development of a harmonised methodology for the calculation of the environmental footprint of products (including carbon footprint). This methodology will be developed building on the International Reference Life Cycle Data System (ILCD) handbook as well as other existing methodological standards and guidance documents (ISO 14040-44, PAS 2050, BP X30, WRI/WBCSD GHG Protocol, Sustainability Consortium, ISO 14025, Ecological Footprint, etc). The current status of the project and a future outlook will be presented.
Four months into the French National Experiment on environmental labelling: First reflections and outlook
Sylvain Chevassus | Ministry of Sustainable Development, France
Speaker information:
After many years in various Brussel based organisations (European Environmental Bureau, Council of European Municipalities and Regions), since 2008, Sylvain Chevassus has been working on sustainable consumption and production policy at the French Sustainable Development Ministry. His more particular mission is to establish links between EU and national policy, notably on environmental footprint issues.
France is conducting a national experimentation on consumer product environmental information from 1 July 2011 for one year. The trial covers the quantification of environmental impacts and its communication to the consumer. 168 companies from all sectors are taking part, including several foreign ones. Sylvain Chevassus will present the general terms of the experimentation, a selection of projects, as well as first lessons and perspectives.
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee
11:30 – 12:30 Major developments in carbon and environmental footprinting (cont’d)
Implementation of the new GHG Protocol Product and Value Chain (Scope 3) Standards
Cynthia Cummis | World Resources Institute / GHG Protocol Initiative, USA
Speaker information:
Cynthia Cummis is a senior associate with the GHG Protocol team at WRI and currently manages the development of the GHG Protocol Scope 3 and Product Standards. She brings more than 10 years of experience in GHG accounting. Cynthia Cummis comes from Clear Carbon Consulting where she was director of carbon management, managing carbon quantification and GHG management projects for multiple fortune 500 clients. Cynthia was the founding director of U.S. EPA’s Climate Leaders programme, where for more than 5 years she led the design and implementation of the programme and oversaw its growth to more than 90 corporate partners. In this position, she managed the development of the Climate Leaders inventory protocols and advised dozens of companies on completion of a corporate GHG inventory. While at EPA, Cynthia Cummis was closely involved in the development of the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard as a representative on the editorial committee for the first version and a member of the revision working group for the revised edition.
Now that the GHG Protocol Product Life Cycle and Corporate Value Chain Standards have been released, the presentation will cover what is next on the horizon for the GHG Protocol. There are plans for development of sector guidance, and calculation tools, support of product and corporate GHG programs, and delivery of training workshops. Furthermore, there are more GHG Protocol’s plans for new standards under development.
The revised PAS 2050: International dimension and supporting systems
Maureen Nowak | defra, UK and Katherine Hunter | BSI, UK
Speaker information:
Maureen Nowak is a policy advisor in the sustainable consumption and production team of the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. She leads on policy aimed at enabling businesses to measure and reduce their product carbon footprint, in addition to their wider environmental impacts across the supply chain.
Speaker information:
Katherine Hunter has worked for the British Standards Institution since January 2006 and is responsible for the development of new standards in the areas of sustainable development, environmental management, climate change, transport and food. Prior to this, she worked for a publisher of environmental law and practical guidance. She holds a BSc in Geography from Edinburgh University and an MSc in Environmental Technology at Imperial College.
In the wake of the publication of a revised PAS 2050, the newly launched GHG Protocol Product Standard and other developing international initiatives, the presentation will aim to give a view on the potential direction of future policy based on life cycle assessment of environmental impacts in product supply chains and supporting systems developed.
12:30 – 14:00 Conversation lunch
14:00 – 14:30 Case study
How to calculate, analyse and manage the Carbon Footprint of 35000 products
Laura Palmeiro, Richard Catteloin | Danone, France
Speaker information:
Laura Palmeiro is vice president nature at DANONE in Paris. Before she was investors’ relations officer at Danone and sales & marketing controller at Danone in Argentina.
Speaker Information:
Richard Catteloin is information system director at DANONE. Before he was SAP competency director at Danone.
DANONE:
DANONE’s board put Nature at the very heart of its business and set a bold carbon reduction target: to reduce carbon footprint by 30% over the period 2008-2012. Management then engaged SAP to help it reach this ambitious goal: Danone is now using SAP® software and targets to measure the carbon emissions of 35,000 products, including a detailed view of every step in their life cycles. The expected benefits of this approach will not only be enhanced social and environmental value and reputation, but also efficiency savings, and increased sales.
14:30 – 16:30 Dedicated tracks
1. Methodologies for the quantification of environmental impacts
The multi-criteria methodologies, product category rules and databases developed for the French Environmental Declaration Scheme (recorded video presentation).
Edouard Fourdrin | ADEME, France
Speaker information:
The French agency on environment and energy management led the elaboration of methodologies to assess the environmental impacts of mass market products and to develop a generic database that quantifies the environmental impacts of products to make the assessments possible. The objective of ADEME is to allow the consumer to use the information concerning the environmental impacts of a product throughout its life cycle as a choice criterion when deciding on a purchase. This environmental communication must also allow for comparison of products belonging to the same category and, when relevant, between product categories.
The French Environmental Declaration Programme demands a comprehensive methodology framework as its basis, including a general methodology, product category rules for particular product groups as well as supporting tools and databases for the facilitated implementation for companies. In this presentation the methodological framework is introduced, the current status explained and major future developments anticipated.
Time to get technical: Some specifications in the upcoming EU environmental footprinting methodology
Rana Pant | Joint Research Centre / European Commission, Italy
Speaker information:
Rana Pant is an environmental engineer by training and holds a PhD in engineering from the Darmstadt University of Technology. Before joining the European Commission in June 2008 he worked for over 8 years with a multinational consumer goods company on topics related to integrated waste management and on LCA. From 2005 until April 2008 he chaired the LCA Steering Committee of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC, Europe), the leading scientific organisation in the LCA area. Since Rana Pant joined the European Commission in the Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) of the Joint Research Centre (JRC), he has taken over responsibilities related to solid waste and Life Cycle Thinking, Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA), the European Platform on LCA (EPLCA), the International Reference Life Cycle Data System (ILCD) Handbook and the Environmental Footprint for products and organisations.
Together with DG Environment, the Joint Research Centre of the Commission is working on guides for conducting environmental footprints. A general guide, and a guide on how to create category / sector specific rules are in development for both products and organisations. Focus is on coherence, quality assurance and robustness.
The Sustainability Measurement and Reporting System (SMRSTM): A worldwide system in development for transparent product declarations
Georg Schoener | The Sustainability Consortium, USA
Speaker information:
At the Sustainability Consortium, Georg Schoener works as LCA modeler and serves as technical contact for member companies. Previously, he has worked in the eco-efficiency team at BASF in Germany and was a trainee at PE International in Denmark.
The latest advancements in creating the Sustainability Measurement and Reporting System (SMRS) will be shared. 50 category sustainability profiles have been developed at this point and 50 more will be available by the end of 2011. A web-based LCA modelling platform is in development, which will allow for direct comparison of products against the product category baseline.
2. Communication approaches for quantified environmental impacts
Current communication framework and overview of communication approaches in the French National Experiment
Olivier Jan | Bio Intelligence Service, France
Speaker Information:
Olivier Jan is an engineer graduated from the Ecole Centrale de Paris and holds a Master of Science from the Imperial College in Environmental Management. He started his career with the company Ecobilan in 1992, a life cycle assessment specialist. In 1999 he joined MASAI Consulting, a leading European supply chain specialist, where he became a partner. He is now managing and developing BIO’s activities in the field of environmental management in France.
Several dozens of companies have already presented the environmental labelling methodology and format that they have defined to provide French consumers with their products’ environmental footprint. The richness of choices they made provides a taste of what the future of environmental labelling could be, and preliminary learnings from consumers and suppliers appear and will be shared in the presentation.
GoodGuide – A tool to empower conscious consumption (recorded video presentation)
Dara o’Rourke | GoodGuide/ University of California, Berkley, USA
Speaker information:
Dara O’Rourke is an expert on the environmental, social, and health impacts of global supply chains. As both a professor and practitioner, he teaches at the University of California, Berkeley and is co-founder and chief sustainability officer of GoodGuide, the most comprehensive source of consumer information on the health, environmental and social performance of products and companies. Under Dara O’Rourke leadership, GoodGuide has been named: one of the World’s “50 Most Innovative Companies” by Fast Company; the New York Times “App of the Week”; and the TechCrunch startup “Most Likely to Make the World a Better Place.” Dara O’Rourke has consulted to organizations such as the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. He was previously a professor at MIT and holds an MS and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
GoodGuide is in business to provide authoritative information about the health, environmental and social performance of products and companies. Our mission is to help consumers make purchasing decisions that reflect their preferences and values. We believe that better information can transform the marketplace: as more consumers buy better products, retailers and manufacturers face compelling incentives to make products that are safe, environmentally sustainable and produced using ethical sourcing of raw materials and labor.
Case Studies from companies participating in the French National Experiment
French retailer Casino’s participation in the French National Experiment: From carbon to environmental footprinting and labelling
Marc Voinnesson | Casino, France
Speaker information:
Marc Voinnesson is project and sustainable initiatives director at Casino Group in France since 2009. As part of the French National Experiment on the Environmental Labelling of Products, this year, Casino has released a new methodology including carbon and others environmental criteria to provide one of the first environmental impact labels on food products. With the first products released this month, Casino plans to reach 100 products by the end of 2011, and more than 300 by the end of 2012. This project has been implemented in collaboration with other national industries and brands, an environmental NGO, Monoprix (other retailer in France) and Bio IS. Marc Voinnesson will introduce rationale behind and current status of the project and reflect on how the future of environmental labelling at Casino may look like.
Hop-Cube’s three key guidelines for an environmental display on products: innovation, simplification & transparency
Thomas Albisser | Hop Cube, France
Speaker information:
Hop-Cube is a company that helps their customers to provide environmental product information by using innovative software. With their tools customers can easily publish environmental information on their websites, their products and even in their catalogues. Because most of the time this information is digitally published, the interaction between
the final consumer and the environmental information can precisely be measured by getting statistical data. Those statistics are interesting because Hop-Cube creates more than 3 million impressions of environmental information per month in several products categories such as TVs, home appliances, textiles, shoes, papers, furniture etc. Thomas Albisser is the CEO of Hop-Cube and works everyday to get a clearer vision of what the future of publication of environmental information will look like.
The presentation will focus on Hop-Cube’s learnings from publishing environmental information and related consumer reactions. Relevant statistical data and best practices will be presented.
3. Acquiring and developing talent for building low carbon products and value chains
The session is facilitated by
Tom Savage | Savage & Hall, UK
and
Cynthia Cummis | World Resources Institute / GHG Protocol Initiative, USA
People are the critical factor for the successful implementation of GHG management initiatives within and amongst organisations. As these initiatives increasingly entail understanding and improving entire product and corporate value chains, building and managing an appropriate team is essential. The implications associated with finding, acquiring and developing the right talent will be explored in this interactive session, building upon personal experiences and opinions of participants. Possible questions for exploration include:
• What skill-set is needed for the successful implementation of corporate sustainability and footprinting initiatives and at what level?
• What changes have you noticed within the market?
• What are the broader developments within the corporate sustainability job market?
• What influence does the availability of people / knowledge / skills have on GHG management trends?
• Where do you notice gaps in education?
• What are employers looking for in their green leaders and what are green leaders looking for in their employers?
• How can you attract the best talent?
• What are the core motivators for green talent?
Speaker information:
Tom Savage, an award-winning social entrepreneur (Young Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2007) and one of the Prime Minister’s “Everyday Heroes”. Tom Savage has conducted over fifty searches for environmental professionals on four continents. He previously founded a number of award-winning ventures, including Blue Ventures, Make Your Mark with a Tenner and Bright Green Talent. He has an undergraduate degree in business from Edinburgh University and a post-graduate degree in business with a scholarship from Oxford University.
Speaker information Cynthia Cummi see above.
16:30 – 18:00 Updates: Carbon footprint methodologies and initiatives
ISO 14067 „Carbon Footprint of Products“: Status and Outlook
Rasmus Priess | PCF World Forum / THEMA1, Germany
Speaker information: see above
A brief overview of the current status of ISO 14067 development will be given with particular emphasis on decisions taken at the June meeting in Oslo on the new timeline.
Lagos State Carbon Footprint and Management Project for green product development
Shabi Adebola Rasheed, Samsideen Alabi-Newton | Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency, Nigeria
Speaker information:
Shabi Adebola Rasheed is the general manager / chief executive of the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA), Lagos, Nigeria. He is the administrative head of the agency and supervises all its activities, ensuring that there is compliance of the industries to the provisions of the environmental protection edit of Lagos State, Nigeria.
Speaker information:
Samsideen Alabi-Newton works as a consultant at the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency responsible for general operations management for the Lagos State Carbon Footprint and Management Project. He analyses, designs and implements environmental footprint solutions for several participating companies. Furthermore his work involves monitoring and controlling compliance level of carbon footprint reporting.
The Lagos State Carbon Footprint and Management Project for green product development introduces green value chain infrastructure for the ease of PCF calculation. It deployed the traditional costing methods for environmental impact accounting and sustainability measurement to regulate compliance for the emergence of green products.
The Japanese Carbon Footprint System and Label: International dimension, findings and future tasks
Masayuki Kanzaki | JEMAI, Japan
Speaker information:
Masayuki Kanzaki is manager of the carbon footprint promotion (CFP) team of Japan’s Environmental Management Association for the Industry (JEMAI), engaged in the national pilot project of CFP as secretary. He was previously in charge of the EcoLeaf type III environmental labelling programme operated by JEMAI, where he was working on the implementation of technical frameworks and the promotion of EcoLeaf as an eco-design tool. As an expert of the Japan External Trade Organisation he joined international projects on the establishment of institutional LCA frameworks in several Asian countries.
In the Japanese national pilot programme of CFP, various experimentations have been conducted, based on the basic guidelines that where established during the early phase of the project. This year further experimentations are being conducted with PCRs and verification schemes, as well as the consecutive development of PCRs and CFPs. For consumers several workshops are held. Currently in its final stage, this 3-years project is summarising its results – in reference to the ISO standardization process – which will be made available for implementation in the private sector in the near future.
Carbon labelling in Korea: Introduction and outlook
Kyung-Hwan Kim | KEITI, Korea
Speaker information:
At KEITI Kyung-Hwan Kim is managing the Carbon Labelling Programm as well as the area of verification and certification of carbon footprints. He is involved in the development of national life cycle inventories and oversees the developement of a low carbon product scheme.
The introduction will provide an overview and outlook of the Carbon labelling activities in Korea.
20:00 Low Carbon Network Dinner (premium registration required)
DAY 2, THURSDAY, 27 OCTOBER 2011
08:00 – 09:00 Check-in and welcome coffee
09:00 – 10:00 Introduction and wrap-up Day 1
10:00 – 11:00 Integrating climate change criteria in environmental and social seals
Climate criteria as a voluntary addition to the Svenskt Sigill certification: A model for other seals and certification systems?
Anna Richert | Climate Certification for Food and Svenskt Sigill, Sweden
Speaker information:
Anna Richert is currently project manager working with climate aspects of food production and consumption at one of Sweden’s largest organisations offering standards for food Svenskt Sigill. Her work is focused on development of criteria for a climate certification for the food chain as a joint venture together with the standards organisation for organic food KRAV. Her background is in research and consultancy and she has previously carried positions such as senior research manager on organic fertilisers and farming systems, and manager of a consultancy company with a focus on agricultural aspects of sustainable sanitation.
The Climate Certification for Food will be presented, a project started in 2007. The system was launched in 2010, and currently 63 products are available in Swedish stores. Svenskt Sigill, a Swedish company offering standards for food production, has presented a voluntary third party certified certification including a label that guarantees to consumers that reductions in climate impact have been made. Certified products include pork meat, frozen vegetables, lettuce and herbs from greenhouses, milk and flowers. Experiences about the road to establishing a certification will be shared as well as the dynamics between certification and labelling for the environment. Finally, some reflections on the multi-criteria approach will be given and some examples of criteria will be shown, where the climate scope of the project has been exceeded in order to move towards sustainability.
Case: Climate certification for products at Swedish food company Findus: What difference does it make to Findus’ business one year into the project?
Enar Magnusson | Findus, Sweden
Speaker information
Enar Magnusson is head of Findus Vegetable Factory. Before he worked as a agricultural manager at Findus agricultural department where he developed Findus LISA (Low Input Sustainable Agriculture) concept. He holds an M.Sc in Agricultural Management from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Findus grows 8500 hectares of vegetables at 600 farms. The Findus way of growing vegetables is summarized in a 10-point programme – Findus LISA (Low Input Sustainable Agriculture). The demonstrated results will include both visible and invisible quality of the raw material. For instance: pesticide residues are below 10 ppb – EU’s limit for baby food quality. From 2010 all Findus contracted farmers have a basic third party certification according to Svenskt Sigill (national standard). Furthermore eleven farmers growing herbs and leaf vegetables have completed their third party climate certification.
The German Blue Angel: Incorporating climate criteria in the first and most well-known eco-label worldwide
Ulf Jaeckel | Federal Ministry for the Environment, Germany
Speaker information:
Ulf Jaeckel is head of division for product policy at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, in Germany. He is dealing with sustainable consumption issues, standard setting, green public procurement, ecodesign, labelling, LCA, standardisation etc. He is chair of the Marrakech Task Force on “Cooperation with Africa” and co-chair of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) 18. In his presentation Ulf Jaeckel will inform about the recently introduced dimension of the Blue Angel “Protecting the Climate”.
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee
11:30 – 12:15 Integrating climate change criteria in environmental and social seals (cont’d)
The SAN Sustainable Agriculture Standard Climate Module: Voluntary extension of the Rainforest Alliance Certification
Gianluca Gondolini | Rainforest Alliance
Speaker information:
Gianluca Gondolini is manager for sustainable agriculture projects in Latin America for the Rainforest Alliance. He is responsible for the implementation of sustainable agricultural production and adoption of best management practices in origin countries along with the promotion of farm certification according to the sustainable agriculture standard in coordination with producers and key stakeholders across the food value chain. He is involved in developing program strategies, management of projects focused on capacity building and technical assistance and development of sustainable value chain for certified products. In addition, he is leading climate-smart initiatives promoting adaptation and mitigation strategies in agricultural production. He is based at Rainforest Alliance Regional Office located in San José, Costa Rica. Gianluca Gondolini holds a university degree in Rural Development in Tropical and Subtropical Countries and a Master degree in Environmental Management.
In response to the impact of climate change on agro-ecosystems, the Rainforest Alliance and the Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN) developed the “climate-friendly farming” initiative that started up in Guatemala as a pilot project focused on promoting payments for environmental services in coffee forests. The climate-friendly practices reinforce existing certification criteria while promoting adaptation and mitigation as streamlined sustainable agriculture model. Those farmers that implement the SAN Climate Module integrate risks and vulnerability assessment posed by climate change in their farms and communities. Furthermore they analyze their practices to quantify and reduce the emissions generated by growing, harvesting and processing activities and increase the levels of carbon stored in their farms to better adapt to climate change.
From Carbon Offsetting to Carbon Insetting – Creating more sustainable Supply Chains within the Fair Trade network
Pieter Louw | FLO-CERT, Germany
Speaker information:
Although Pieter Louw’s background is in law, he has spent the last 7 years working with Fairtrade in various capacities: Certification in Southern Africa, quality management and of course, in-house legal council. In his capacity as the head of business development, he lead the certification work on many of the large accounts that have made strong commitments to Fairtrade in the past 2 years (Cadbury, Starbucks, Nestle etc.). He is currently working on the development of business strategies that will ensure the future sustainability of Fairtrade certification. The business development unit’s most exciting work is the Fairtrade carbon programme that aims to facilitate low-cost access for small farmers to the benefits of the low carbon economy.
Pieter Louw will speak about how FLO-CERT supports small-scale producers and the buyers of their producst to tranisition into the emerging Low-Carbon economy. He will describe FLO-CERTs approach to Carbon Footprint assessments, to Carbon Footprint reduction and neutralisation – from Offsetting to Insetting – which will help create more sustainable and efficient supply chains.
12:15 – 13:45 Conversation lunch
13:45 – 14:45 Challenge for the standards: Accounting for green power in corporate and product carbon footprinting
Chair: Guido Axmann | PCF Project / Platform for Climate Compatible Consumption, Germany
Speaker information:
He is managing director of THEMA1, a Berlin-based think-do-tank specialised in accelerating the transition to a low carbon society. Current projects: PCF World Forum, PCF Project Germany, Platform for Climate Compatible Consumption Germany, Green Music Initiative, Shift 2050, and Renewables-Grid-Initiative.
The replacement of fossil fuels by renewable energies is a commonly agreed and major measure for reducing GHG emissions. For diverse reasons, the accounting of supplier specific electricity from the grid (e.g. “green power”) in carbon footprint assessments according to the established and emerging standards is not possible. However, practically supplier specific emission factors and “green power” are often included in carbon footprinting assessments and figures in one way or the other.
In this session the issue of including lower emission “green power” in carbon footprinting and GHG inventories is raised from different perspectives. Statements from Summit participants are collected on Day 1 and are shown together with results from an online survey in the beginning of the session. A major European convenience food company will introduce the importance of finding a solution for adequate accounting of “green power” from their perspective. Standard setters and implementing programs are then asked to clarify and reflect on how they intend to address the use of supplier specific electricity and/or “green power” in standards and practical carbon footprint assessments in the future.
Video statements from Summit participants and survey results on the recognition of “green power” in carbon footprint assessments
Urgently needed: Accounting for “green power” in consumer goods and food production
Urban Buschmann | FRoSTA AG, Germany
Speaker information:
Urban Buschmann was born in 1956. After studying food technology at Universities Breslau and Stuttgart he joined Unilever in 1983, working mainly within research & development. For the last 12 years Urban Buschmann has worked for FRoSTA in Bremerhaven as head of process development and has developed and introduced the system of PCF calculations for the whole company as well as individual products.
As part of FRoSTA’s climate protection efforts, FRoSTA has assessed the carbon footprints of most of its operations and products and set the ambitious goal to achieve a reduction of 70 per cent of CO2e-emissions of the FRoSTA brand products by 2013 in relation to the base year 2007. An important component of the FRoSTA climate goals is the use of certified “green power”. Currently, the carbon footprints are displayed in two scenarios, one with, and one without accounting for “green power”. Given the general demand for uniformly assessed carbon footprints this is still an unsatisfactory situation.
Reactions and statements from the different standardisation organisations and programmes
14:45 – 15:45 Participant viewpoints: The next five years in carbon and environmental footprinting: what should we aim and what should we prepare for?
PCF World Summit speakers and participants are invited to share short statements on how the carbon and environmental footprint agenda will or should develop over the course of the next five years. The viewpoints are documented and included in the documentation and help to shape the future dialogue.
15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break
16:15 – 17:00 Wrap-up and closing