News - Corsus

Thea Kreutzburg introduces herself

Four questions for Thea Kreutzburg, who joined corsus as a Senior Consultant in November 2022. Read the short interview.

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Book of Proceedings of the International Food Life Cycle Assessment Conference 2022 published

Corporate, Food, Life Cycle Assessment

The conference proceedings of the International Food Life Cycle Assessment Conference 2022 have been published. corsus is represented with two contributions on environmental impacts of food.

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WWF Living Planet Conference 2022

Biodiversität, Corporate, Food

As part of the CLIF project, Dr. Christina Mumm digitally participated in the WWF Living Planet Conference 2022 in Johannesburg.

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Report on environmental labelling for food published

Carbon Footprint, Corporate, Food, Klimabilanz, Life Cycle Assessment, Ökobilanz

How should a successful environmental labelling for food be designed? corsus has prepared an assessment report together with Zühlsdorf + Partner and the KATALYSE Institute.

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corsus at COP27: Life cycle assessment is the basis for many assessment approaches

Corporate, Food, Life Cycle Assessment

Ulrike Eberle gave a short presentation on the interrelationships between True Cost Accounting (TCA) and Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) to reduce environmental impacts. “A socio-ecological transformation of food systems is urgently needed. Life Cycle Assessment and True Cost Accounting show where priority action is needed: less animal-based food, more legumes and nuts, more social justice, less food waste and more sustainable agricultural production are the levers. Make sustainable choices easy choices!”

Vereinte Nationen

Municipality of St. Peter-Ording nominated for first German SDG Award at UN Climate Change Conference

Municipalities, SDGs

The municipality of St. Peter-Ording was nominated on November 9 at the UN Climate Change Conference in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt for the first German SDG Award (Sustainable Development Goals) of the Senate of the German Economy in the category "Cities, Municipalities & Counties" out of more than 100 applications. This recognizes the local development concept "Sustainable St. Peter-Ording" as an exemplary project that is consistently aligned with the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Business Strategy & the Environment

Article published by Julius Wenzig and colleagues on the engagement of controllers with sustainability

Corporate, Municipalities

Sustainability controlling is a key area for advancing a sustainable transformation in companies in a systematic and fact-based manner. Empirical studies show, however, that controllers hardly deal with sustainability at all. In search of the reasons, Julius Wenzig, Anne-Katrin Nuzum and Prof. Dr. Stefan Schaltegger wrote an article that was recently published in the renowned journal Business Strategy & the Environment. The article is freely available in Germany via Wiley Verlag.

Gemeinschaftsnetzwerk Nachhaltigkeit

Joint action for sustainable development

Corporate, General, Municipalities

Gemeinschaftswerk Nachhaltigkeit: corsus participates in new platform of the German Council for Sustainable Development.

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corsus presents project results at the 13th International Conference on Life Cycle Assessment of Food

Corporate, Food, Life Cycle Assessment

The International Food Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Conference 2022 was held in Lima, Peru from October 12-15, 2022. Food LCA experts from all over the world presented the latest research results. The corsus team was also represented at the conference with several presentations: Dr. Ulrike Eberle and Nico Mumm presented in two lectures the results of the Besseresser:innen study, in which corsus determined the environmental impact of nutrition in Germany on behalf of WWF Germany.