Sustainability In the team

At the webinar of G+P engineers, on March 6 2024, Arthur Braunschweig is invited to the podium. As co-author of the LCA on 'silent roads', he will discuss LCA aspects of silent road pavements.

“Implementation of Environmental and other Sustainability Goals”, deptm't BAUG, winter semester (since 2010).

Excerpts of the study made for the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment, given at the Swiss Discussion Forum for LCA nbr. 72, at ETH Zürich

Talk at Usitawi, international Service Club for sustainable development, Zürich (http://www.zuerich.usitawi.org/).

Why do some Swiss companies orient their strategy towards sustainability? And how can we assess whether it is more than greenwashing? In this Brown Bag Talk for faculty of the New School in New York, Arthur Braunschweig presents experiences with Swiss companies, both SMEs and corporations, and the approaches to measure eco-efficiency and social performance, esp. the weighting approach for environmental assessment called "ecological scarcity method". April 11th, 2019, 12 am - 1 pm, at The New School, Milano School for Policy, Management, and Environment, in  Manhattan, NYC.  

Certificate in Advanced Studies (CAS) on social, ecologic and economic topics of the textile chains. 7 blocks, friday/saturday, course days in Zürich and Lugano. (Details)

The first oikos New York chapter invited to the 1-hour guest lecture on "Weighting of Environmental Impacts in Ecobalance & Life Cycle Assessment", as an element of sustianably oriented management. (April 20th 2017, here the video of Arthur's lecture).

Arthur Braunschweig, Managing Partner of E2 Management Consulting AG and lecturer at Zürich's ETH, talks about the European experiences regarding weighting of environmental impacts.

Two typical situations warrant a weighting of various environmental impacts, if I want to include ecological considerations into decision making:

when I need to choose between products or services, and
when I need to allocate limited funds to projects
-> Should we rather buy cars that run on electric motors or efficient gasoline motors - considering also the electricity mix and the battery, next to everything else? 
-> Should our company rather invest in a new dyeing process, or rather into improving logistics - considering that both time and funds are limited and we can't do all at once?

In this talk at oikos New York at the New School for Social Science, Arthur talks about approaches and experiences with environmental weighting methods, in Europe in general and Switzerland in particular, and he argues why such a weighting should not be done ad-hoc within a project but in a standardised way.

Double presentation at Lucerne University for Technology and Architecture, (within ISA module week, Sept. 2011 as well as Feb. 2013).

with C. Morel (Swissaid), J. Züblin (Migros), M. Abt (Unilever) and Prof. F. Wettstein (HSG), on “Profits without hunger and thirst”, November 2011

Workshop “Sustainable Finance” at the oikos international FutureLab 2011, with Varun Sarda (PWC London), November 2011

Panel „Guidance, Support, Subsidize": Which political framework will best strengthen a sustainable economy?, at the öbu annual assembly 2011, with René Buholzer(Credit Suisse), Hans Ruedi Schweizer (Ernst Schweizer AG), Martin Huber (Georg Fischer AG), Prof. Monika Bütler (Universität St. Gallen) and Prof. Lucas Bretschger (ETH Zürich), May 2011

of SANU (6 course days, next start on 16th of Nov. 2010 (last course day on 9th of March, 2011)

with a Focus on 'Recipe' and on Abiotic Resources", April 20th, 2010, ETH Zurich. At this forum a presentation on "An dieser Veranstaltung den Vortrag zum Thema "Why to assess gravel use – and which gravel? Effects of the gravel ecofactor in UBP'06 on LCA's of gravel and concrete"

presenting the joint presentation of Prof. Susanne Kytzia und Arthur Braunschweig at the 8. Concrete information day of Holcim (Switzerland) AG, at EPFL Lausanne, September 2nd 2009; idem at the 'Session d'hiver 2010' of the Swiss federation of gravel and concrete industries, FSKB, 1. April 2010, Jongny/VD

weekly course of the Institute for Environmental Sciences (bi-annual; 1996 - 2008)

"LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT VERSUS CO2 FOOTPRINT", incl. presentation "The Relation between LCA and Greenhouse Gas Accounting", Lausanne, March 2008

How to consider recycling in LCAs of building materials?, Lausanne (Nov. 2007)

Speech at the Alu-Congress, Mai 11th, 2007

on Environmental Policy and Environmental Management at Hohhott (China) for 70 officials from the Inner Mongolia Province (April 2007)

on "Environmentally Oriented Management" (every 6 months)

"Quality Issues in LCA Software, Projects and Peer Review" at the ETH Zürich, incl. introduction lecture on "The Critical Review Process according to ISO 14040: Experience & Effects" (September 2004)

of ÖBU (organisation, introduction, moderation) (December 2002)

on "Measuring the Sustainability Performance of Financial Institutions" (October 2002)

as part of the Educatis-MBA (private university located in Altdorf/UR, Switzerland; 2004 - 2010)

on "Environmental Performance Indicators for the Financial Industry" (EPI-Finance 2000) (November 2001)

on "Controlling for Social Responsibility: SA8000 and AA1000" (October 2001)

on "Environmental Indicators" (August 2001), www.sanu.ch

on "Management of Social Sustainability; New aspects for Human Resource Management" (May 2001)

on "Learnings from the EPI-Finance Project" (February 2001)

Seminar "Management of Social Sustainability" on "Social Performance as a Corporate Challenge" (November 2000)

on "The Eco-Indicator 99" (February 2000)

on "Environmental Standards: The Economy, Companies and the Environment" (January 2000)