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Specialist
Workshops During
the Conference
The
following workshops will be offered
before, during and after the conference. For details please scroll
down.
Attendance
at workshops is limited. To
ensure your place please complete the booking form which can be
downloaded by clicking here.
Booking is on a first come, first served basis.
1.
Restorative Urban Water
Management
2. The
Challenges of Energy, Climate Change
and Carbon Trading
3. Providing
Decision-Support for the
Planning and Practice of LCM
4. Life-Cycle Based
Decisions for Governments
5. An Introduction to Life
Cycle Assessment:
A hands-on approach using SimaPro
6. Practitioner-Seminar:
Introduction to
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) LCA and carbon footprinting according to
PAS 2050
7. Advanced
Training in SimaPro
8. Practitioner-Seminar: Using
GaBi 4 software and databases for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and
carbon foot-printing
9. Life-Cycle Based Waste
Management
Restorative
Urban Water Management
Monday, 7 September 2009, 13.30 – 18.00
Professor
Cynthia Mitchell (UTS, Australia)
Dr Ulrika Palme
(Chalmers University, Sweden)
Dr Rolfe Eberhard
(Palmer Development Group, South Africa)
This workshop will explore practices in urban water management that
ensure more effective and sustainable decision outcomes. It will use
case studies from both developed and emerging economies to explore the
role of urban water infrastructure in meeting ecological, societal and
economic objectives. The goal is to ensure that such infrastructure
operates as part of the overall urban fabric, to meet basic needs,
protect human health, and enhance eco-system function, at the same time
as providing adequate financial returns to authorities and equitable
economic outcomes for society more broadly. Key to this is
understanding better the inter-relationship between water services and
other components of urban infrastructure (especially energy). Here it
is important to think in terms of resource efficiency and
effectiveness, and to position water and its constituents (carbon,
nutrients etc) as resources to be reused and recycled.
The
three co-ordinators bring a set of rich
and diverse perspectives to this workshop, covering “on the
ground” experience in Australia, North America, South East
Asia,
Northern Europe and Africa.
The
Challenges of Energy, Climate
Change and Carbon Trading
Tuesday
8 September 2009, 13.00
– 17.30
Facilitators:
Dr David Mitchell,
Energetics Pty Ltd, Sydney Australia
Dr Mary Stewart, Energetics PLC, Sydney Australia
Gina Downes, Eskom Ltd, Johannesburg South Africa
Dr Brett Cohen,
The Green House, Cape Town, South Africa
This
workshop will identify drivers and
barriers to the application of Life Cycle Management to Energy Systems
(energy supply, industry users, and domestic users); follow a
“risk / reward” approach to LCM in the Energy
Sector; and
discuss how carbon trading schemes (using Australia’s
innovative
approach as a case study) can be managed in a way consistent with the
tenets of LCM.
A
key focus will
be on the information
requirements to support an effective carbon trading mechanism, and what
this means “on the ground” for infrastructure
provision and
management in emerging economies, particularly in terms of capacity
development.
Providing
Decision-Support for the
Planning and Practice of LCM
Wednesday 9 September 2009, 16.00 – 18.00
Please note, this workshop will be held as a plenary platform
discussion, so there is no need to pre-book.
Professor Theo Stewart (UCT, South Africa)
Professor Raimo Hamalainen (HUT, Finland)
Professor Jim Petrie (Sydney University, Australia)
This workshop will take
a 'systems' approach
to the structuring of complex problems which have a bearing on Life
Cycle Management for sustainable development, demonstrated through
selected case studies involving several stakeholder groups. It will
focus on the challenges
of defining the decision context, articulating the objectives to be
pursued, identifying options for consideration, and choosing
appropriate performance measures against which the performance of
various alternative 'solutions' can be explored.
Participants will be
exposed to common
pitfalls in approaching sustainable development problems, and guided
through the use of a set of tools to overcome these.
Pre-conference training
workshops
Life-Cycle
Based Decisions for
Governments
Sunday 6
September 2009,
19.30 - 21.30
Board Room, Vineyard Hotel
This workshop will be led by Sonia Valdivia, Secretariat of the
UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative
This
workshop will identify drivers and
barriers for life-cycle based decisions in Governments. In addition,
needs and requirements will be presented following a survey done in
2008 mainly focusing Non OECD Countries.
Two LC Approaches to be further described are “prioritization
of
productive sectors following macro environmental and social life cycle
studies” and “green procurement”.
Participants will debate about the approaches presented and discuss
about the possibilities of their implementation in their countries.
Action items from the workshop will be recorded and followed up by the
UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative.
An
Introduction to Life Cycle
Assessment: A hands-on approach using SimaPro
Sunday 6 September 2009, 13h30-17h30
(participants are invited to attend a finger lunch to precede course at
12:00 pm)
Venue:
University of Cape Town, Department
of Chemical Engineering
(transport
will be provided from The Vineyard Hotel for participants
that have pre-booked using the booking form.)
The Green
House (Pippa Notten)
This course will cover
the basics of LCA through learning by doing. Participants will learn
how to go about constructing an LCA model in SimaPro with a simple
example that they will follow over the duration of the course. Topics
covered will include:
- Basic terms. What is a
carbon footprint? What is an LCA?
- The importance of
planning (goal and scope definition);
- Inventory analysis (the
basics of data collection, using LCI databases, how to set up and model
a life cycle in SimaPro)
- The basics of Impact
assessment (how to select an appropriate method and apply this in
SimaPro)
- An overview of
interpretation (including the importance of sensitivity and scenario
analyses).
Practitioner-Seminar:
Introduction
to Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) LCA and carbon footprinting according to
PAS 2050
Sunday, 5
September
2009, 15:00 –17:30 pm, Vineyard Hotel Boardroom
Participation is free
Register here: h.florin@pe-international.com
In this seminar
Dr Johannes Gediga and Harald Florin from PE
INTERNATIONAL will provide an introduction to the methodology of Life
Cycle Assessment (LCA) following the requirements from ISO 14044. In
addition special focus will be given as well to introduce to the
guidelines of PAS 2050 on calculating a product carbon footprint.
Case studies will demonstrate application of these methods in industry.
The number of participants is limited and places are available on a
first come first serve basis.
POST
CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
Advanced
Training in SimaPro
Thursday
10 September 2009, 14h00-18h00
Venue:
University of Cape Town, Department
of Chemical Engineering
(transport will be provided from The Vineyard Hotel for participants
that have pre-booked using the booking form)
Pre
Consultants
Do
you
want to learn about the more complex modelling and advanced features of
SimaPro? This afternoon gives you the opportunity to learn some of the
more advanced features of SimaPro 7. The training is given by
our experienced consultants, who have done numerous LCA projects and
use SimaPro on a daily basis.
They
tell you about modelling complex end of life scenarios, how
to work with parameters, and how to use disassemblies and disposal
scenarios.
Computers
with SimaPro installed are provided.
Practitioner-Seminar:
Using GaBi 4
software and databases for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and carbon
foot-printing
Thursday,
10 September 2009, 9:00
–12:30 pm, University of Cape Town
Participation is free
Register here: h.florin@pe-international.com
Nowadays
environmental aspects have high
importance for strategic, short and mid-term business decisions on a
daily basis in all industries. A variety of industries are faced
with
global discussion on Global Warming Potential, carbon footprinting and
upcoming questions about the sustainability of processes and products.
The environmental effects of transport systems are also high on the
agenda. Your industry too?
This seminar will demonstrate a variety of approaches, using software
tools and databases, towards topics like product carbon footprint,
Eco-Design during product development, green supply chain and
logistics. In addition to focusing on issues arising from day to day
business, the seminar will provide information on methodological
aspects and share some insight on case studies and solutions.
The number of participants is limited and places are available on a
first come first serve basis. So sign-up now by contacting Harald
Florin:
h.florin@pe-international.com
Life-Cycle
Based Waste
Management
Thursday 10
September 2009, 09h00-12h00, University of Cape Town
Workshop Presenters:
Emmanuelle
Aoustin, Research and Innovation, Veolia Environment, France
Professor
Göran Finnveden, Division of Environmental Strategies
Research, Department of Urban Planning and Environment, School of
Architecture and the Built
Environment, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Sweden
Associate
Professor Harro von Blottnitz, Environmental & Process
Systems Engineering Group, Chemical Engineering Department, University
of Cape Town
This
workshop will explore how the
application of life cycle thinking and assessments can be harnessed to
enrich integrated waste management planning. By viewing components of
the waste stream within their individual product life cycles,
Reduction, Re-Use and Recycling can be strengthened, making ISWM and
especially the 3R approach a more
effective
instrument in a sustainable consumption agenda. By applying
life cycle assessment to competing treatment options for residual
wastes, the best environmental option can be selected and optimised.
The
presenters bring a set of rich and
diverse perspectives to this workshop, combining “on the
ground” experience in Europe and Africa with a strong
theoretical
grounding. Brief CVs are available elsewhere on the LCM2009 conference
web-site.
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