Part 2 of the study on the environmental impact of German food, conducted by corsus on behalf of WWF-Germany, was published today. In the second part of the study, the focus is on water consumption and the water scarcity footprint of the German diet.
Although the protection and promotion of biodiversity is one of the greatest challenges of our time, it is difficult to measure the impact of products and services on biodiversity. Dr. Ulrike Eberle, Managing partner of corsus, has been involved in developing a method to estimate the impact on biodiversity for life cycle assessments.
Following the example of France and Great Britain, there is now also a Citizens’ Climate Council in Germany. The task of the Citizens’ Council, which consists of 160 randomly selected citizens, is to jointly discuss how “compliance with the German climate protection targets can be achieved fairly for all”. They will be accompanied by “leading experts from science and business”. Dr Ulrike Eberle from corsus is one of these experts. She will speak this evening at the Citizens’ Council on food and climate change and recommendations for sustainable nutrition.
In the SWR programme Marktcheck, Dr. Ulrike Eberle from corsus was interviewed about the environmental impact of asparagus. The question was how the carbon footprint of imported asparagus compares to local asparagus from Germany. The results are clear: asparagus from Germany, which is also consumed locally, performs best.
FRoSTA has won the German Sustainability Award for the third time – this time the special prize Packaging for a pure paper packaging for frozen food.
The conference proceedings of the 12th International Food LCA Conference are available online. The conference, which this year had the motto “Towards sustainable agri-food systems”, took place virtually for the first time due to the corona pandemic.
The Federal Award “Too good for the ton” of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture honours initiatives and projects against food waste and for more appreciation. Dr. Ulrike Eberle has now been appointed to the expert advisory board of the Federal Award.
With more than 300 participants from all over the world, the online presence of the 12th International Food LCA Conference ended yesterday with the closing event. Due to the Corona pandemic, the conference, which this year had the motto “Towards sustainable agri-food systems”, took place virtually for the first time.
On 13.10.2020 the first virtual Food LCA conference was opened by Dr. Sergiy Smetana (Chair of the conference), Dr. Ulrike Eberle (Chair of the Scientific Committee and Co-Chair of the conference) and Dr. Ulrike Bos (Co-Chair of the conference).
On 28 August 2020, the city of Reinbek published and presented a poverty report for the first time at the city council meeting. The City of Reinbek wants to live up to its responsibility and is committed to a sustainable orientation.
