WCEF2024 side event + short online LCA course launched
Businesses need to save the world, that is something we strongly believe. So how do we help them do that? We thought of two additional ways recently. One is our introductory online LCA course called “Leader’s LCA” and the other one is a World Circular Economy Forum WCEF 2024 side event about how LCA can help determine if a Circular business is really sustainable or not. We are quite excited about both of these and we hope you will be too ??
How sustainable is your Circular business model? Find out with LCA! WCEF2024 side event?
Are all circular solutions automatically sustainable? Circularity is generally good and linear business models are not sustainable. There is however a lot of hype around circularity and unfortunately we sometimes see business models that are, to some extent, circular but not very sustainable. So just adding an element of circularity does not necessarily make a business green, although that is often a step in the right direction.
This is why we think it is important to ask the question “How sustainable is your Circular business model?”.?
How can you know then, when you design a business model, whether or not it will be environmentally sustainable or not? Well, that is revealed in the second part of the title “Find out with LCA!”
Environmental Life Cycle Assessment is a versatile tool for assessing the Life Cycle Impacts of a system. Circular business models add a bit of complexity to LCA’s but not so much that it would be a problem. In the event Poul Lindqvist , Co-founder and CEO of Environmental Impacts Academy, will shed some light on these aspects.
Each one of our speakers will present their circular business model in their individual keynotes, together with reflections about the sustainability of those. After that we will have a panel discussion where we also answer questions from the audience, both live on location in Helsinki and online.
Our guest speakers represent a few different circular businesses:
The event will be on April 12th at 14:00-16:00 UTC +3 EEST (Helsinki, Eastern Europe Summer Time). It will be a hybrid event, with room for 60 attendees on location in the Naava showroom in Helsinki and an unlimited number of attendees online. Here is a link to the event page where you can find out more and register to the event.
Feel free to invite your friends and colleagues too and help us spread the word about the event together with Sitra and World Circular Economy Forum WCEF
As mentioned, LCA can be used to assess how sustainable a certain business model is. What else can it be used for then? Keep reading…
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New introductory online course: Leader’s LCA
Many people we have talked to about our full 10-14 week hands-on LCA training and support program, have asked us for a short introductory training solution. Many people need to understand more about LCA but not everyone will be performing LCA’s. Much like people need to understand financials but they won’t all have to do accounting. This is why we created the Leader’s LCA online course which is aimed at business leaders, sustainability leaders, ESG/strategy consultants and really anyone who needs to understand the basics of how LCA works, what it can be used for and how it relates to compliance, strategy and communication.
The course is online, it can be completed at any time and you don’t need to do it all at once. It might even be better to do it bit by bit to let the learning sink in, as we have in fact managed to include quite a lot of learning content into such a short course.?
We have received excellent feedback from our pilot students and we are confident that you will find the course useful! You can find out more and access the course here .
If you need to educate a large group of people in your company, to understand the basics of LCA, feel free to contact [email protected] to agree on a good solution for you.
Important dates in the near future
February 27th 2024: Webinar - LCA at Scale with Daniel Collado-Ruiz from Earthster and our own Co-founder and CEO Poul Lindqvist. In this fireside chat we will talk about how companies can create LCA’s at scale, something very timely and relevant if you have more than a handful of products in your business. Sign up here .
March 4th 2024 is the start date of our next “Flex” hands-on LCA training and support program. It begins with a 7-week training period, with about 10 hours of studies per week allowing for a one week break during Easter time.
April 8th 2024 is the start date of our next Intensive hands-on LCA training and support program. It begins with two weeks of more or less full time studies, an average of six hours per day
In both cases the training period is followed by an 8-week LCA project, where our students conduct a real-life LCA for a product, service, or organization of their respective company (or their customer in case of consultants). Find out more on our webpage under Products and Prices
That’s all for this time.
Have a fantastic day! Be kind to each other and to Mother Earth!
Find out more about #wcef2024 and other side events here wcef2024.com and https://www.sitra.fi/en/news/wcef2024-hits-brussels-on-15-18-april-to-turn-circular-visions-into-actions/