Workshop - Carbon Life Cycle Assessment and Labelling
Friday 5 March 2009
09:00am - 12:30pm
Net Balance, 4/460 Bourke Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000
The first step to ‘green' your supply chain is to understand where your carbon liabilities lie. This workshop will introduce life cycle analysis (LCA) as a tool to quantify your greenhouse gas emissions and help drive down carbon emissions in your supply chain.
We will also explore carbon labeling and its role in improving the transparency and credibility of your green marketing claims.
Why attend?
- Interactive and participant focused, with exercises to help you apply LCA principles to real world situations
- Key learnings from case studies
The workshop will cover:
Sustainable supply chain management using an LCA approach
- Assessing where your carbon liabilities begin and end - setting system boundaries
- Using LCA tools to identify opportunities to reduce GHG emissions in your supply chain
- Carbon/ CPRS pass through cost analysis
Case study: Wolf Blass
The future of carbon labelling
- How useful are carbon labels to your business and the consumer?
- Case Study: Cascade Green -
- Local and global standards and how they can work for your business (PAS 2050/ Carbon Reduction Label, Greenhouse Friendly/ NCOS, Japanese Labelling Scheme) )
Facilitated by Robyn Leeson, Director, Net Balance