Measuring Sustainability Performance for Plant-Based Protein

Michigan Sustainable Business Forum is hosting a webinar to educate sustainability practitioners and stakeholders on how life-cycle assessment studies and similar tools are used to demonstrate the case for plant-based proteins and milks as climate solutions.

Life-Cycle Assessments (LCAs) provide a comprehensive method for evaluating a range of environmental impacts across the full life cycle of a product system, from materials acquisition to manufacturing, use, and final disposition.  They are an increasingly important tool for sustainability programs to promote the responsible design and redesign of products and processes.  

Animal-based products account for about half of global food-related emissions, yet livestock yields less than 20% of global calories.  The world needs products that make the transition to plant-rich diets easy, and that plant-based proteins and milks can be part of the solution. In this webinar, speakers will dive into case studies on the sustainability performance of plant-based proteins from Beyond Meat and Oatly and how these contribute to a more resilient and resource-efficient food system.

Beyond Meat and Oatly have both been approved as Climate Solutions through the Exponential Roadmap Initiative. An LCA by Michigan-based Positive Scenarios Consulting has provided justification for substantial emissions-reduction claims on Beyond Meat products. Oatly will show how its products are contributing to societal net zero.

Featured Speakers:

• Brittany Szczepanik, Co-founder & Owner, Positive Scenarios Consulting, LLC
• Erin Augustine, Vice President of Global Sustainability, Oatly

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how proven Life-Cycle Assessment tools are used to justify sustainability claims.
• Learn how plant-based meat alternatives can generate significantly less greenhouse gas emissions from leading brands.
• Understand how companies such as Beyond Meat and Oatly are utilizing benchmarks, third-party registries and measurement to promote products as climate solutions. 

Who Should Attend: 

• Sustainability leaders with purchasing influence for food service and retail.
• Sustainability professionals with LCA responsibilities.
• Other sustainability and environmental professionals.
• Other business and community leaders (basically anyone that eats)

About Our Partners:

• Positive Scenarios Consulting (PSC) is a sustainability firm on a mission to help people help the planet. Since 2022, Brittany has led a team supporting clients ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies, with a collective annual revenue exceeding $200B – across diverse industries including biotech, food & beverage, manufacturing, and retail.

• Oatly is the world’s largest and original oat drink company, where Erin Augustine joined in August 2021. Erin is focused on ensuring sustainability is at the beating heart of everything at Oatly, from strategic business decisions, to enabling and empowering individuals and teams to deliver on the company’s ambitious goals as detailed in Oatly’s Sustainability Plan.