Programme 1st Summit

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International Approaches to Product Carbon Footprinting and Carbon Labelling

PCF World Summit 2009, Berlin, 26-27 February 2009

Thursday, 26 February 2009

Chair: Jacob Bilabel, THEMA1, Germany

08:00 Registration, coffee

09:00 Welcome

Rasmus Priess, THEMA1, Germany

09:05 Welcome

MinDirig Franzjosef Schafhausen,
Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany

09:20 Keynote

“Product Carbon Footprinting: Challenges in International Standardisation and Implementation”
(Graham Sinden, Carbon Trust, UK)

09:45 International standardization efforts in Product Carbon Footprinting

  • “The WRI/WBCSD Product and Supply Chain Initiative”
    (Andrea Brown, WRI/WBCSD, Switzerland)
  • “Carbon Footprint of Products: A Vision”
    (Dr. Klaus Radunsky, Co-Convenor of ISO/TC207/SC7/WG2 “Carbon Footprints of Products”, Austria)

10:45 Coffee

11:15 Approaches to Product Carbon Footprinting

  • “Lessons Learned: PAS 2050″
    (Kate Hughes, defra, UK)
  • “Environmental Labelling of Mass-Market Products in France”
    (Edouard Fourdrin, ADEME, France)
  • “Carbon Footprinting and Environmental Labelling in Germany”
    (Dr. Ulf Jaeckel, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Germany)

12:30 Network lunch

14:00 Approaches to Product Carbon Footprinting (cont’d)

  • “New Zealand’s Contribution to Product Carbon Footprinting”
    (Alison Watson, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, New Zealand)
  • “Lessons Learned: Product Carbon Footprint Pilot Project”
    (Rasmus Priess, THEMA1, Germany)

15:00 Chaired panel discussion

“Opportunities and Challenges on the Pathway to an International Standard”

  • Andrea Brown, WBCSD, Switzerland
  • Dr. Klaus Radunsky, ISO/TC207/SC7/WG2, Austria
  • Edouard Fourdrin, ADEME, France
  • Kate Hughes, defra, UK
  • Rasmus Priess, THEMA1, Germany

16:30 Coffee

17:00 Breakout groups

  • “Comparing PAS 2050 and ISO 14044: Special Features of the PAS 2050 and its Implications for PCF Results compared to Carbon Footprints obtained from LCA studies” (PE INTERNATIONAL)
  • “Product Carbon Footprinting in the Food and Agriculture Industry: Practical Experience and Dynamics” (Carbon Trust)
  • “CO2e as a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) for Reporting and Strategic Management” (Deloitte)

18:30 Summary statements of breakout groups

21:00 Low carbon network dinner (please register!)

Friday, 27 February 2009

Chair: Jacob Bilabel, THEMA1, Germany

08:00 Registration, coffee

09:00 Keynote

“Legislation Update: The EU’s Approach to Product Carbon Footprinting and Carbon Labelling”
(Pavel Misiga, DG Environment, European Commission)

09:20 International carbon labelling schemes

  • “Climate Labelling in Sweden: Current Status and Outlook”
    (Anna Richert, Svenskt Sigill, Sweden)
  • “Carbon Assessment in the Supply Chain and the Carbon Reduction Label”
    (Hervé Humbert, Carbon Trust)
  • “The Carbon Reduction Label: Practical Market Experiences from the UK”
    (Stephen Heal, Director of Climate Change, Tesco, UK)
  • “Carbon Labelling in Japan: Learnings from the First Phase of Pilot Projects”
    (Professor Atsushi Inaba, Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan)

10:50 Coffee

11:20 Communicating the carbon impact of products to customers

  • “Labelling Top Runner Products: Experiences at Migros”
    (Cornelia Diethelm, Migros, Switzerland)
  • “The Casino ‘Indice Carbone’: Experiences with Carbon Labelling in France”
    (Corinne Picard, Casino, France)
  • “The Nature&More Trace and Tell System: PCF Online Communication”
    (Volkert Engelsman/ Tobias Bandel, Nature&More/ Soil&More, Netherlands)
  • “The Carbon Disclosure Project Supply Chain Leadership Collaboration”
    (Andrea Smith, Carbon Disclosure Project, UK)

13:00 Network lunch

14:30 Breakout groups

  • “Capitalizing on Sustainability: Tracing and Communicating the Carbon Footprint of Agricultural Products” (Soil&More, Nature&More, The Netherlands)
  • Product Carbon Footprinting: Case Studies and Insights
    1. “Product Carbon Footprinting in Action: A Case Study” (Andrew Smith, PepsiCo, UK)
    2. “Carbon Footprinting: Cases Studies on Methodology and Labelling from France” (Aymeric Schultze, BIO Intelligence Service, France
    3. “Supporting Life Cycle Needs for Sustainable Consumption and Production in European Policy and Business” (David Pennington, European Commission´s Joint Research Centre, Italy)
    4. “Climate Protection at Henkel: The PERSIL Case Study” (Guenter Jaumann/ Uwe Bergmann, Henkel)

16:00 Coffee

16:30 Summary statements, conclusion and outlook

  • How should companies approach carbon labelling and communication before common international guidelines exist?
  • What are the necessary next steps towards international harmonisation?