Audience:
Open industry. All apparel and footwear industry professionals, regardless of AAFA membership, are encouraged to participate.
Description:
Calculating scope 3 emissions and product carbon footprint is a pressing challenge for companies, pushed by rising consumer transparency expectations, legislative disclosure requirements and market authorities’ campaigns against greenwashing. Accessing and calculating data is complex, more so when involving the entire value chain to deliver a carbon footprint for a product’s entire life cycle.
Can tech solutions facilitate this process, by making data management and analysis easier and faster, while keeping focus on supplier engagement for primary data collection and reduction discussions? Join us to discover a science-based solution which combines LCA expertise, tools for supply chain and product mapping, and on-the-ground data verification - allowing companies to make data-driven decisions towards their climate goals.
Attendees of this webinar will learn:
- How to avoid the pitfalls of product LCA
- The combined strength of expertise, tech, and boots on the ground
- Ways to activate the value chain for the common goal of global net-zero emissions
Speakers:
Rasmus Elsborg-Jensen
CEO & Founder
ReFlow ApS
Rasmus Elsborg-Jensen is the Founder & CEO of the environmental engineering firm ReFlow - a service provider of digital science and lifecycle-based solutions for the environmental assessment of products and processes. Rasmus is considered an expert in climate assessment of products and was appointed European Climate Pact Ambassador.
Anouschka Jansen
Sustainability Solutions Director
QIMA Ltd
Anouschka Jansen is the Director Sustainability Solutions at QIMA, a leading provider of supply chain compliance solutions, that partners with brands, retailers and importers to secure, manage and optimize their global supply network. In this role she supports the company in delivering sustainability solutions for QIMA’s clients and their supply chains. Anouschka brings 20+ years of experience in supply chain sustainability, with a particular focus on the textile industry. Prior to joining QIMA, Anouschka worked at amfori, a business-driven membership organization. At amfori she worked with her team in delivering innovation through new sustainability products, tools and services to the organization and its member companies, including the amfori BEPI initiative and topics such as access to remedy, impact assessment, responsible purchasing practices and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Moderator:
Chelsea Murtha
Director of Sustainability
AAFA
Chelsea Murtha serves as the association’s advocate and spokesperson on matters of sustainability and product safety. She engages with Congress, the Executive Branch, independent agencies, as well as state and local legislatures and agencies and foreign governments on sustainability, product safety, and chemical management issues important to the industry. Chelsea is also the staff liaison to AAFA’s Environmental Committee and Product Safety Council.
Chelsea joined AAFA from a Washington, D.C., government affairs firm where she lead advocacy efforts for clients, including several trade associations and apparel and footwear importers, on policy developments related to environmental, social, and governance issues in global supply chains. She has also worked for the U.S. Fashion Industry Association, and a Washington, D.C., international trade policy consultancy firm. Chelsea earned a Master of Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Bachelor of Arts from the George Washington University.