Workshop

V General Topics

V.W3 Carbon Footprints

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Date: 24/09/2008
Time: 11:00 - 12:30
Location: Skylounge

Target Audience: Industry (Companies), Consumer organisations, Administration (Politics, Legislation) Science (Research + Development)

Objectives:

Exchange of experiences on  strategies, methodology , decision making and communicatio

Format: Moderated presentation session
Language: English

Overview on new developments in carbon footprint – measuring, methodologies, decision making and labelling.

Strategies on the level of Government (e.g. New Zealand); sector specific strategies (including methodology, data base); corporate level (processes, products and services, sites, and company at whole) and connection with decision making processes

Case Studies: agricultural products (kiwifruit, wine, lamb, dairy, forestry products), cars, textiles, furniture

Workshop Moderation

Griesshammer, Rainer
Institute of Applied Ecology, Freiburg, Germany

Presentations

Linking New Zealand Producers with UK Consumers: Adressing the Labelling of Food Products
McLaren, Sarah
Society and Sustainability, Landcare Research, Wellington, New Zealand, New Zealand

Integration of Carbon Emissions into Corporate decisions
Engel, Britta
Technical University Braunschweig, Institute für Produktion und Logistics, Germany
download presentation (315 KB)

EINBLIK – Cumulative Emission Intensities to assess the Climate Protection Performance along Supply Chains
Haubach, Christian
University Pforzheim, Germany

The Second Sense – A Best Practice Example of CO2-Reduction and Labelling by the Furniture Recycling Network “Zweitsinn”
Baumann, Werner
INFU-Institut für Umweltforschung, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany
download presentation (1079 KB)

Workshop Results

Speakers input

The speakers gave an overview on new developments in carbon footprint – measuring, methodologies, decision making and labelling. The following levels where adressed:

• strategies on the level of Government
• sector specific strategies
• corporate level
• connection with decision making processes

Main issues of Dialogue

• carbon footprint activities are mainly market driven
• fokus should be set on the identification and realisation of greenhouse gas saving potentials
• basis methodology is the (Product) Life Cycle Assessment (ISO 14040ff.)
• only focus on greenhouse gases can be misleading

Practical conclusions

• methodology should be harmonized internationally
• branch organisations should develop sector strategies
• carbon footprint issues should be part of integrated decision making processes