Lindsay Clinton to Moderate Panel at Sustainable Brands New MetricsOn September 25, SustainAbility Director Lindsay Clinton will moderate a panel entitled “Quantifying a Product’s #SocialFootprint: The Next Stepping Stone in Assessing Product Sustainability” at Sustainable Brands New Metrics. While clear rules and standards for environmental life-cycle assessment (LCA) have existed for many years, corporate sustainability professionals around the world have suffered from the lack of commonly accepted methodologies for “social LCA.” To respond to that need, PRé Sustainability convened twelve sustainability experts from leading companies in its Roundtable for Product Social Metrics, aiming to make social impact assessment more accessible and meaningful through the development of a handbook containing an explicit, clearly defined set of principles and metrics. Moderated by SustainAbility’s Lindsay Clinton, the panel will include: João Fontes, Social Footprinting Expert, PRé Sustainability Charles Duclaux, Head of Corporate Responsibility Reporting and Environmental Innovation, L’Oréal Sébastien Zinck, Manager, Eco-design and Life-Cycle Assessment, Steelcase Dirk Voeste, VP of Sustainability Strategy, BASF The Handbook, a result of the Roundtable for Product Social Metrics and a collaboration between DSM, PRé Consultants, Philips, BMW, GoodYear, Ahold, Marks and Spencer, AkzoNobel, BASF, L’Oréal, and Steelcase: describes a new methodology for sustainability professionals to assess a product’s social impact throughout its life cycle; is based on a multi-industry collaborative effort (B2B, B2C, retail) and stakeholder consultation (scientists, NGOs, specialists); is the first step towards industry standardization for product social impact assessment that builds on, amongst others, experiences of DSM with its People+ Program; and contains cross-industry pilot cases on social impact measurement. Register today for this panel discussion at Sustainable Brands New Metrics. SustainAbility
Posted on: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 14:00:10 +0000
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