December 9-10, 2024: Environmental Footprinting of Food Value Chains in North America - Core Sessions (Virtual)

Have you heard of environmental footprinting or life cycle assessment (LCA), and do you want to explore its purpose and methods?

Do you wish to future-proof your business by adopting life cycle thinking?

Is your organization committed to sustainability, but you're unsure where to start and how to integrate it within your organization?

The Mérieux NutriSciences | Blonk Team will provide you with the knowledge and tools to unlock the potential of environmental footprinting and LCA in agri-food production in North America. LCA is an internationally recognized methodology to quantify the environmental impacts of products and services throughout their life cycle. You can use LCA to investigate the environmental performance of products across a range of environmental indicators, such as climate change, land use, and water consumption. The insights will help you to identify hotspots, set up reduction strategies, and drive towards a more sustainable future.

Throughout the course, you will learn more about the concepts of LCA, corporate footprinting, ecolabeling; international and US market developments, standards and policies for footprinting and LCA in particular; and technical aspects of footprinting. Moreover, in our specialist sessions, you will deep dive into crop cultivation, animal farming systems, and food databases, including how to define healthy and sustainable foods and diets.

After the course, you will have a good understanding of the environmental footprinting context and methodology, and strengthened skills in life cycle thinking and action to further develop your business goals and drive towards a more sustainable future.

Course Details

• Minimum time commitment: 8 hours (2 core)
• Maximum time commitment: 20 hours (2 core & 3 specialist sessions)

This course is made up of two core sessions + optional specialist sessions (additional purchase). See full schedule below:

• Day 1: Core Session: Introduction to Footprinting (All Attendees)
• Day 2: Core Session: How to Conduct LCA (All Attendees)
• Day 3: Specialist Session A: Crop Cultivation  
• Day 4: Specialist Session B: Farm to Fork 
• Day 5: Specialist Session C: Animal Farming

Click here to view the course agenda.

Registration & Purchase

To purchase only the Core sessions add this course to your shopping cart. The cost of this course is $1000. 

If you'd like to attend 1 or more of the specialist sessions click the appropriate links below to make your purchase. 

Core + 1 Specialist Session $1500

Core + 2 Specialist Sessions $2000

Core + 3 Specialist Sessions $2500

Discounts available for registering multiple employees and nonprofit organizations. Contact us for more information.

Who Should Take This Course

• Sustainability leads, R&D managers, quality managers, marketing, management at multinational and bigger SME companies of industry, food service, retail

• Sustainability officers at sector organizations

• Senior advisors, researchers from civil society organizations and related government agencies

• Doctoral researchers, project managers at universities

Instructors

Click here to learn more about the team of experts from Mérieux NutriSciences | Blonk teaching this course.

Computer Requirements

• Computer with working camera and microphone 
• Strong internet connection

Click here for information about our cancellation policy.

A minimum of 10 students is needed to run this course.

Registration Deadline: November 29, 2024

About Blonk, A Mérieux NutriSciences Company

Blonk is a leading international expert in food system sustainability, inspiring and enabling the agri-food sector to give shape to sustainability. Blonk's purpose is to create a sustainable and healthy planet for current and future generations.

We support organizations understand their environmental impact in the agri-food value chain by offering advice and developing tailored data and software solutions based on the latest scientific developments and data.