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Santeri Lehtonen
Ecologist working with Green Entrepreneurship,…
Based in Berlin
Speaks English, Finnish,…
Powers: Sustainable food,…
Julia Weber
Social ecologist with business background aiming for a climate and social impact,…
Based in Vienna
Speaks English, German
Powers: Social Ecology,…
Bram v/d Grinten
Circular and climate-positive design engineer,…
Based in Rotterdam
Speaks English, Dutch
Powers: Circular products,…
Mariana Bittencourt
Environmental architect and civil engineer with doctorate,…
Based in Paris
Speaks English, French
Powers: Eco architecture,…
Format and key learning outcomes
Format
- Carbon footprint quiz
- Introductions, questions, goal, timetable
- Introduction to impact assessment
- Overview of LCA sources and tools
- examples of impact startups
- How a climate impact forecast works
- Example demonstrated in the CIF tool
- Workshop, assistance and feecback
- Presenting results
- Conclusion
Key learning outcomes
- (Climate) impact is not intuitive enough to guess, but data is available
- Life Cycle Assessment is a field of science and LCA works like this
- The Climate Impact Forecast is made for startups, building, measuring and learning about impact through iteration
- A surprise insight
This is the set-up, and the actual format and learning outcomes will be tailored to the occasion.
Cif training example planning
| 10:00 | Arrival – welcome, introductions |
| 10:30 | Carbon footprint quiz – To warm up the carbon impact intuition |
| 10:45 | Talk – Impact assessment fundamentals Perspectives on assessment, examples of mitigation, enabler and adaptation projects, system boundaries, life cycles, benchmarks, Theory on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): definitions of process, system boundary, functional unit, business unit, LCI, CO2eq, Mpt, EVR, eco-costs, footprints including carbon footprint, endpoints EcoInvent and the IdeMat database |
| 11:45 | Workshop – Introduction to the tool with examples |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 | Workshop – Teams working on step 1 & 2 |
| 14:30 | Impact stories – A round of intermediate results |
| 14:30 | Workshop – Table-by-table assistance Step 3 & 4: Identify which aspects of start-up idea contribute most to the total impact |
| 16:00 | Results – Draw conclusions and prepare the pitch to include everything found out today, and new to-do’s for impact improvement. |
| 16:30 | Pitches – Demonstrate how the idea has impact, how much, how to improve, and show how positive impact drives or benefits the business model. Including Q&A and feedback. |
| till 17h | Wrap – Closing remarks and directions for exploration |
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