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Trainers / A few of our slides / Format and key learning outcomes / Cif training example planning / Short format lectures and workshops
Our trainers provide the same training, each with our own flair, examples, stories, experience and sustainable superpowers.
We cover different locations and languages across Europe, and of course we carbon compensate our trips. Contact a trainer directly via their page, or use the form below and your inquiry will be forwarded to the nearest, available or best suited trainer.

Santeri Lehtonen
Ecologist working with Green Entrepreneurship,…
Based in Berlin
Speaks English, Finnish,…
Powers: Sustainable food,…
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Julia Weber
Social ecologist with business background aiming for a climate and social impact,…
Based in Vienna
Speaks English, German
Powers: Social Ecology,…
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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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