Net Zero – Reducing Environmental Impact Through Lifecycle Assessment and Smart Product Design

Join the University of Kent and Kent Invicta Chamber of Commerce for expert-led workshops helping you to make your business more sustainable.

About this event

In partnership with Kent Invicta Chamber of Commerce, we at the University of Kent are hosting a series of Net Zero Pathway to Change workshops to equip Kent businesses with the skills, expertise and confidence they need to take steps towards achieving their net zero goals.

Each workshop in the series will be run by leading Kent academics who will take you on a deep-dive into their areas of expertise and offer opportunities for discussion and action planning so that you can apply what you’ve learned to help your business become more sustainable.

Reducing Environmental Impact Through Lifecycle Assessment and Smart Product Design
Led by Dr Rob Barker from the Division of Natural Sciences

In these sessions we will introduce the concept of lifecycle assessment for your process or product, discuss the key steps in the assessment and how this can help to reduce the environmental impact of a business.

Part One – 10am – 12pm, 7 July

Part One will introduce the concept of a lifecycle assessment, this will include defining an assessment, discussing the process and exploring how they can be utilised to improve the sustainability of your business. We will briefly discuss some case study examples as a group before going through some take away resources that can be used to evaluate your own approaches in preparation for Session 2.

Part Two – 10am-12pm, 28 July

In Part Two we will discuss the findings of the evaluations conducted by each business in between sessions. Following on from this the session will be split into groups, each group will assess the sustainable improvements that could be conducted within a case study business. We will then regroup to discuss the findings of each group and explore the viability of the factors identified.

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