Lunch & Learn Series for Product Manufacturer: Environmental Product Declaration

Welcome to GBCA’s online Lunch & Learn Series for Product Manufacturers. Building on our Responsible Products webinar, this series is designed to deep dive into some of the most important challenges product manufacturers face. 

We know that the shift to more responsible products can’t be achieved alone, so these sessions are aimed at connecting the sector to help organisations ask and answer questions and share experiences and resources to make it easier.

Session 2: Environmental Product Declaration (EPDs)

Environmental Product Declarations continue to grow in importance in our industry as they provide valuable information to manufacturers about their products and how to improve them, and to specifiers who are more and more required to report on the impacts disclosed in them. This session will help manufacturers understand what they mean, how to get them, how to use them and what to be aware of when reading them. Our speakers will present on EPDs and will answer questions from the audience. As this is a more open forum than a traditional webinar, we hope participants will ask questions and learn from each others’ experiences.

Mark in your diary! 

Upcoming sessions in the series (separately bookable)

Session 1: Product Certification (17th July)

Session 3: Avoiding Greenwashing (18^th September)

Session 4: Communicating Responsible Product Benefits (23^rd October)

Session 5: Responsible Product Guidelines (27^th November)

Please note these sessions are held online and lunch is not provided.

Speakers

Steve Mitchell - EPD Australasia

Advocacy & Marketing

About Steve

Steve has over thirty years’ experience in sustainability projects within state government, community organisations and the private sector. He is passionate about the role that Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), and the Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) that underpin them, play in benchmarking and reducing the environmental impact of the built environment and other sectors. EPD Australasia publishes independently verified EPDs for Australian and New Zealand business. They currently have over 300 EPDs published covering thousands of products for over 80 large, medium and small businesses operating in the region. For global visibility and compatibility EPD Australasia are also aligned with the International EPD System, which has registered over 4,000 EPDs from nearly 50 countries, and the EU ECO Platform. Stephen is a long-term member of the Australian Life Cycle Assessment Society (ALCAS) and obtained his Masters in Environmental Management at the University of New South Wal

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