When: Monday 7th 11 AM till 1 PM Where: Online.
How well do the tools we use to assess textile fibers reflect the complexity of the systems behind them?
As part of the project Testilkompasset, we are inviting researchers, practitioners and professionals working with textile impact assessment to a webinar on LCA, PEFCR and related approaches – and explore the challenges, uncertainties and possibilities surrounding how different textile fibers are understood and compared.
If you encounter these questions in your professional work, whether through research, industry, policy, procurement or other forms of practice, we would very much welcome your perspective in the conversation. The project builds on the many years of research and policy feedback that Consumption Research Norway has stood for.
Learn more and register here.
The program:
11:00 – 12:00: Part I: Current challenges and frustrations
11:00 – 11:05 Welcome
Tone Tobiasson, Fibershed Norge: Welcome and house rules
Perspectives:
11:05–11:15 Åsa Strandberg, Mid Sweden University/IUC Jämtland Härjedalen
How a life with textile LCAs forced the idea of a Textile Compass database
11:15–11:25 Dr Paul Swan, Technical Advisor to IWTO
Textile Life Cycle Assessment: Regeneration required!
11:25–11:35 Ove Jakobsen, Nord University
Ecological Economics and the problem of measuring only negative parameters
11:35–12:00 Open Dialogue, moderated by Tone Tobiasson, Fibershed Norway
12:00-13:00 Part 2, Possibilities moving forward
12:00–12:10 Henrik Haller, Mid Sweden University
Could one of the textile industries’ most revolutionary inventions inspire us to think differently?
12:10–12:20 TBC SPIN360
And then there were all the other inherent problems in comparing nature with factories: What CAN be fixed?
12:20–12:50 Open Dialogue, moderated by Tone Tobiasson, Fibershed Norway
12:50–12:58
Reflection round
(maybe asking to write in the chat and read selected from the chat if we are 50+ participants?) “Based on today’s conversation, what question, area or possibility needs priority going forward?”
12:58–13:00, Closing