Webinar Series: Sustainability Matters

A tipping point has been reached in the world of sustainability. Organizations face increasing challenges from growing complexities across their value chains, and from consumers’ growing expectations of corporate responsibility. Companies are rapidly setting net zero carbon targets, diversifying their workforce, and/or moving into new, cleaner lines of business – this is just the beginning. As businesses feel pressure from social movements and environmental challenges, the interest in sustainability is likely to grow substantially over the next decade. 

At Intertek, we are committed to helping stakeholders understand sustainability, why it matters, and how to effectively integrate it into your business. We are pleased to offer a complimentary webinar series to address some key topics pertaining to sustainability and how it affects corporations. Don’t miss these valuable opportunities to learn from the experts.

Demystifying Sustainability

Recorded January 26, 2022
This webinar has been designed to provide a high-level overview of three main pillars of sustainability. During the session, our experts will cover topics such as the sustainability journey, corporate reporting, and product claims; as well as describe the interconnectivity of various sustainability elements. Attendees will gain a better understanding of how sustainability encompasses the entire supply chain, and how it requires accountability from all levels of an organization, including suppliers and retailers.

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Your ESG Journey

Recorded February 16, 2022

Getting started with ESG can be a confusing proposition with multiple frameworks, varying definitions and a changing regulatory landscape. Our experts have prepared a session to address many of your ESG questions and help support you regardless of where you are in your journey. Attendees will gain essential insight and learn practical approaches to ESG, including strategy development, benchmarking, target setting, and analysis.

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Getting to Carbon Neutral and Net Zero 

Recorded March 9, 2022

Many organizations are making commitments to achieving carbon neutral emissions some time in the near future. Setting a pathway to carbon neutrality or even net zero can be a daunting task when there are so many ways to get there. This session will explore how to begin thinking about carbon neutrality and how to define “net zero” within your organization. Our experts will identify considerations for goal setting considerations around Scope 3 emissions goals and illustrate how to establish appropriate targets and achieve them. 

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Eco-Claims: Protecting Your Brand

Recorded March 30, 2022

Eco-Claims can demonstrate the environmentally beneficial qualities of what you sell. They often refer to the way goods and services are produced, packaged, distributed, used, provided, consumed, and/or disposed of. However, before reaping the benefits of making eco-claims, it is important to have a thorough understanding of the regulatory landscape and of potential risks. In this session, our experts will address a variety of claim-related topics, including how to validate eco-claims for marketing purposes. Attendees will gain valuable insight into understanding how sustainability can be incorporated into the entire product development process.

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Lifecycle Analysis and Environmental Product Declarations

Recorded April 20, 2022
A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), and its market-facing communication document, the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD), can help product manufacturers increase revenue, strengthen brands, gain operational efficiencies, and mitigate risk. Join our session to learn more about these tools and how they are generated, and discover other software and resources that can provide valuable insights. Our experts will discuss how an LCA is conducted, what resources are necessary to bring an EPD to fruition, and the need for third-party reviews.

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Managing Quality in the Circular Economy

Recorded May 11, 2022
The Circular Economy is a phrase commonly used to describe a system in which resource use, waste and emission are reduced or minimized in the traditional linear economy, in effect “closing the loop” on responsible production and consumption. Managing products and material for their end of life, or second life, ensure that maximum value is derived from resources by providing opportunities to recover, regenerate and rethink design throughout the value chain of products. During the webinar, our expert will discuss considerations when incorporating circular values into product and supply chains and new potential issues that Circular Economy introduces to quality management.

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Getting to Carbon Neutral and Net Zero (Part 2)

Recorded June 1, 2022

Getting to carbon neutral and net zero is not just a commitment, it requires putting tangible actions in place and ensuring that it can be sustained from one CEO to the next. Achieving your decarbonization ambitions in the long run will require a systematic review of your course of action. In the second part of this topic, we will be talking about decarbonization strategies and options, including the role of carbon credits in offsetting your GHG emissions.

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