Product GHGs.
What is the greenhouse gas footprint of your products in use, and is it on a credible path to zero? A live session on Future-Fit Break-Even Goal BE18: what the standard requires, where your organization stands, and what to do next.
- For
- Product teams, R&D, marketing, customer experience and sales leadership. Also legal, regulatory affairs, sustainability and engineering. No prior knowledge of the Benchmark is needed.
- Format
- Two hours forty-five minutes. Live virtual.
What it is for.
Operations are only part of the footprint: many products emit greenhouse gases every time they are used. The goal is that no product does so as a direct consequence of its use.
The standard is Future-Fit Break-Even Goal BE18, "Products emit no greenhouse gases". In the words of the Benchmark: "A Future-Fit Business sells no goods or services that emit greenhouse gases as a direct consequence of their use." The session shows what that requires, how progress is measured on the scale from 0 to 100 percent, and what your team has to do to find out where the organization stands.
It is not a complete benchmarking exercise. A real progress score needs data from every site, and more time than one session allows. Participants leave knowing exactly how to do it.
The Future-Fit Business Benchmark is published by the Future-Fit Foundation under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Goal statements are quoted from Release 2.2. Lorne Cousins is a Future-Fit Accredited Advisor.
What you leave with.
- A precise understanding of what BE18 requires, and why the standard is higher than most organizations meet today
- The ability to tell which approaches count under the Benchmark and which do not
- A worked example of the progress score calculation
- A Fitness Snapshot: a directional estimate of where your organization stands on the scale from 0 to 100 percent
- A Game Plan: the questions to ask, the data to gather and the conversations to have, so that real benchmarking can follow
- A Personal Action Plan: three named, time-bound actions
- After the session: a 30-day follow-up pack of four weekly activities
- After the session: the Future-Fit Action Guide for BE18 and a reading list
Why it matters.
- A credible path to zero has to include what products emit in use
- Rules on product claims, greenwashing, the circular economy and producer responsibility are tightening
- Marketing, Legal and Product share the accountability and seldom sit in one room
How it runs.
- Short inputs from Lorne on the goal and the standard
- A worked example of the progress score
- The Fitness Snapshot, done on your own organization
- The Game Plan and the Personal Action Plan, written in the session