Jim Fava has been a sustainability leader for more than 45 years. He’s made significant contributions to how we understand and measure environmental impacts, including creating the modern day foundation for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).
Now in retirement, Jim will reflect on his career. He’ll join our CEO Barbara Nebel to discuss the many highlights and lessons from his career – and recommendations for others in the field. This will be a fascinating conversation exploring the last 50 years in sustainability.
This webinar will cover:
- The ‘triggers’ that set Jim on his career path
- Some of his proudest acheivements
- The development of LCA
- Top lessons from sustainability
It will be useful for:
- Sustainability managers
- Executives (CEOs, CFOs etc.)
- LCA practitioners
- People working in sustainability
Speakers:
Jim Fava
Former Executive Director, Anthesis Group
Dr Jim Fava has spent over 40 years supporting businesses and governments to understand the risks and opportunities facing them. He’s provided guidance and tools on strategies and actions to enable them to operate in a more sustainable fashion. As Executive Director at Anthesis Group, Jim worked to increase business value (increased revenue, reduced risks, enhanced brand, and lower costs) by operating sustainably.
Dr Fava has been called the ‘father of modern-day life cycle assessment’. Jim has spent his career promoting and developing the practice and application of life cycle information to support decision making.
CEO, thinkstep-anz
Barbara's passion is to enable organisations to succeed sustainably. She often describes her job as a translator between the languages of sustainability and traditional business language. Together with her team she delivers a full range of sustainability services from strategy and materiality assessments through to detailed Life Cycle Assessments and Cradle to Cradle® projects.