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SUMMARY:PAS 2050: The BSI/Defra/Carbon Trust Specification for Greenhouse 
 Gas Emissions Associated with Products and Services - Professor Roland Cli
 ft - Centre for Environmental Strategy\, University of Surrey
DTSTART:20091028T170000Z
DTEND:20091028T180000Z
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CONTACT:David Leal-Ayala
DESCRIPTION:In October 2008\, the British Standards Institute (BSI) togeth
 er with the UK Department of the Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra
 ) and the Carbon Trust published a specification\, known as “PAS 2050”
 \, for calculating the emissions of Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) associated wit
 h consumer products and services.  The PAS 2050 approach is already being 
 taken up in many countries around the world. This talk\, presented by a me
 mber of the technical steering committee for drafting PAS 2050\, will expl
 ain the background and objectives of the approach\, the methodological bas
 is for the specification\, and the ways in which “carbon labels” are l
 ikely to affect the management of supply chains.\n\nRoland Clift is an Eme
 ritus Professor of Environmental Technology and founding Director of the C
 entre for Environmental Strategy at the University of Surrey\; previously 
 Head of the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering at the Universi
 ty of Surrey. He is Visiting Professor in Environmental System Analysis at
  Chalmers University\, Göteborg \, Sweden\, Adjunct Professor in Chemical
  and Biological Engineering at the University of British Columbia\, Vancou
 ver\, Canada\, President of the International Society for Industrial Ecolo
 gy\, and a Vice President of Environmental Protection UK. He is a non-exec
 utive Director of the Blackrock New Energy Investment Trust\, a member of 
 Rolls-Royce’ Environmental Advisory Board and of the International Exper
 t Group on application of Life Cycle Assessment to waste management. From 
 1996 to 2005 he was a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Poll
 ution (RCEP). In 2004-5\, he acted as Expert Adviser to a House of Lords e
 nquiry into energy efficiency. He is a past member of the UK Eco-labelling
  Board and of the Royal Society/Royal Academy Working Group set up at the 
 instigation of DTI to examine the risk and regulatory issues raised by nan
 otechnology. His research is concerned with system approaches to environme
 ntal management and industrial ecology\, including life cycle assessment a
 nd energy systems.
LOCATION:LR4\, Engineering Department\, Baker Building
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