LCANZ Autumn Webinars: Water - Footprinting Techniques
Event description
Autumn Webinar Series
We are excited to be organising an Autumn webinar series. We have a great line up of speakers followed by question
and answer sessions.
Keep your Wednesdays at 1pm free through April and May!
Water
This event is for our introductory Water webinar on 4th May:
Water Footprinting Techniques with Sarah McLaren.
Professor Sarah McLaren is Director of the New Zealand Life Cycle Management Centre (NZLCM Centre), and Professor in Life Cycle Management at Massey University, New Zealand (NZ). Her research focuses on development and application of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and related approaches such as environmental footprinting, the circular economy, planetary boundaries, and industrial ecology.
Sarah has promoted uptake of Life Cycle Management in New Zealand as a founding Committee member of the Life Cycle Association of New Zealand (LCANZ) and member of the Technical Advisory Group of the Australasian Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) Programme. She has served on the Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor’s Rethinking Plastics Panel, Ministry for the Environment’s Planetary Boundaries NZ Advisory Board, and represented NZ on the ISO Water Footprint Working Group. She works with organisations such as the Building Research Association of New Zealand (BRANZ), BEACON Bioeconomy Research Centre Ireland, and the NZ Food Awards to translate Life Cycle Management into practical action.
Water footprinting techniques have evolved from two separate starting points since the early 2000s - one concerned with water as a limited resource, and the other focused on assessing the environmental impacts associated with water use. In this session, Sarah will identify the key issues to be addressed in assessing both types of water footprint, and how this technique can be used to improve the environmental profile of your company and its products.
Check out our website for details of more webinars in the series:
Opportunity to win a year’s LCANZ membership!
We’ll be running a competition through the webinar series. Student and Individual members could win their next year’s membership, while corporate members could win a free SME membership to gift to a supplier for FY23.
To be in with a chance to win, you’ll need to register and attend all of the sessions and answer a short quiz about what you’ve heard. Good luck!