Join us to learn about Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) and Carbon Footprinting led by Barbara Nebel, CEO of thinkstep-anz along side insights from Sean Simpson Co-Founder of LanzaTech.

  • From streamlined high level LCA to full comparative and ISO compliant studies
  • Which approach is appropriate according to age and stage of company / product / technology
  • How to communicate and use when talking to customers, investors, other stakeholders
  • Practical tips on how to get started
  • How much data do we need?
  • Q&A

What questions do you have about LCA’s and Carbon Footprinting? Submit your questions when registering so we can best cater the content of this session to you.

Meet your experts:

Barbara Nebel – CEO of thinkstep-anz, Barbara’s passion is to enable organisations to succeed sustainably. She often describes her job as a translator, translating sustainability into traditional business language. Together with her team, she delivers a full range of sustainability services from strategy and materiality assessments through to detailed Life Cycle Assessments and Cradle to Cradle® projects. Barbara has worked with organisations in New Zealand, Australia, Asia and Europe, effectively linking sustainability with business value.

The founder and current president of the Life Cycle Association New Zealand (LCANZ), Barbara initiated the Australasian Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) Programme. She is a member of the International EPD system and on the Steering Group for the Climate Leaders Coalition. Barbara has chaired the New Zealand working group for the development of ISO standards for Carbon Footprinting, is a Certified LCA Practitioner, and an associate editor for the International Journal of LCA. Barbara has been a judge of the Banksia Sustainability Awards and sits on the Executive Committee of the German New Zealand Chamber of Commerce.

Sean Simpson – Sean is the Co-Founder and Technical Advisor of LanzaTech. Since its inception in 2005, Sean has led the company to secure numerous rounds of venture capital funding, significant commercial and technical partnerships with leading global organizations, and government R&D grants. Sean’s leadership has encouraged collaboration between biologists, fermentation specialists, process and design engineers and business development teams to develop the technology and the company to become a global leader in gas fermentation.

LanzaTech’s carbon recycling technology is like retrofitting a brewery onto an emission source like a steel mill or a landfill site, but instead of using sugars and yeast to make beer, pollution is converted by bacteria to fuels and chemicals. Life cycle analysis (LCA) is essential for understanding the environmental benefits of LanzaTech’s technology. LanzaTech has developed in-house LCA expertise and engages in collaborations to understand and develop recommendations for methodological approaches which vary by region. We regularly work with specialists around the world including: The European Commission (EC)/ Joint Research Council (JRC), Roundtable for Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB), International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), International Sustainability & Carbon Certification (ISCC), California Air Resources Board (CARB), Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Michigan Technological University (MTU), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and others.

Sign up here – Please note this is an in person only event @ Outset’s Campus in Auckland Parnell.

A separate virtual session will be held following at a date TBC.