In December 2024, corsus published a White Paper within the project ‘CLIF – Climate Impacts of Food’. The aim of the White Paper is to identify the most appropriate impact assessment methods for selected environmental impact categories to be used for communicating environmental impacts of food.
In order to make nutrition more sustainable, assessment approaches are needed that link health and the environment and evaluate them together. The Planet Health Conformity Index (PHC), which was developed as part of the CLIF – Climate Impacts of Food project, addresses precisely this issue. In contrast to mono-dimensional indicators such as the Nutri-Score (focus: health) or the Eco-Score (focus: environment), a key figure has been developed that can provide a clear orientation for health and environmental aspects. In addition, the newly developed PHC also takes planetary impact limits into account in the assessment. The PHC can therefore provide more orientation in the labelling jungle.
corsus at the presentation of the 17th German Sustainability Award. It is important to celebrate courageous companies and initiatives that are actively driving change.
In a workshop, corsus discussed current developments and the legal perspective on the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the German Supply Chain Duty of Care Act (LkSG) with the renowned lawyer Roda Verheyen from Hamburg.
corsus presentation on the environmental impact of the DGE dietary recommendations at the fourth annual conference of the Centre for Nutrition, Food and Sustainable Supply Systems on 6 November at Fulda University of Applied Sciences.
Julian Quandt and Ulrike Eberle presented a comparison of the environmental impact of different plant and animal protein sources based on different reference units (functional unit) at the International Conference on Life Cycle Assessment of Food (LCA Food 2024) in Barcelona.
Biodiversity impacts in life cycle assessments: corsus employees present results on the assessment of biodiversity impacts of global food supply chains at the LCA FOOD 2024 in Barcelona.
On 4 September 2024, corsus moderated the annual meetings of the project support working groups (PAG) for the two large-scale nature conservation projects ‘Naturally Hamburg!’ and ‘Hamburg, your river nature’ in the Kirchhof Hall of the Patriotische Gesellschaft Hamburg. Both large-scale nature conservation projects aim to significantly connect and enhance Hamburg’s urban nature and waterways and to protect biodiversity.
Felix Lücking from corsus presented results on reducing the complexity of food assessment for labelling at the International Food Life Cycle Assessment Conference 2024 in Barcelona.
The managing directors of corsus were appointed to the juries of the German Sustainability Award for both companies and products.
