Conference Agenda

Session

Session 3.04: Handprints as a method to accelerate the sustainable Transition

Time:

Friday, 12/Sept/2025:

9:35am - 11:05am

Session Chair: Gregory A. Norris, MIT, United States of America
Session Chair: Sonia Valdivia, WRFA, Switzerland

Presentations

(15 minutes)

Assessing Scope 1, 2, 3 and 4 Biodiversity and Climate Change Impacts of Investments

Stephan Pfister¹, Shuntian Wang¹, Viktoras Kulionis²

¹ETH Zurich, Switzerland; ²Pictet Asset Management, Switzerland

(15 minutes)

Balancing Footprint and Handprint in the Coatings Industry

Pau Huguet Ferran, Ioannis Voulgarakis, Anna Valgeirsdottir

Hempel

(15 minutes)

Driving Sustainability- The Role of LCA in Carbon Reduction: The case of AMG lithium in electric vehicles application

Marcella Volta¹, Katie Livesey¹, Peter Shonfield¹, Henry Shere¹, Hugh Whetherly¹, George Parthmer², John Hunt², Joe Leonard²

¹ERM; ²AMG

(15 minutes)

Enhancing Urban Climate Strategies through Handprint Actions: A Focus on the Transportation Sector

Laura Lakanen¹, Petri Kero², Juho Vento¹, Pinla Nokkanen², Kaisa Grönman¹, Olli Helppi¹, Mikko Ropo¹, Risto Soukka¹

¹LUT University, Finland; ²The City of Lappeenranta, Fnland

(6 minutes)

Exploring Handprint Potential: A Forward-Looking Measure for Positive Climate Impact

Mikko Juhani Ropo, Olli Juhani Helppi, Laura Maria Lakanen, Risto Matias Soukka

LUT University, Finland

(Short Oral + Poster)

How to showcase environmental impact mitigation through innovation? An application of the environmental handprint approach to wastewater treatment technologies

Silvia Forin¹, Katri Behm¹, Tiago Furlanetto², Mona Arnold¹

¹VTT; ²APCL

(Short Oral + Poster)

Leveraging Handprints to Accelerate Adoption of Sustainability Principles in Engineering Education and Quantify their Positive Contributions

Jasmina Burek¹, Kiara Winans², Alana Griggs¹, Nelson Granda-Marulanda³, Greg Norris⁴

¹University of Massachusetts Lowell, United States of America; ²Virginia Tech, United States of America; ³North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University; ⁴Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America

(6 minutes)

Integrating Beyond Value Chain Mitigation into the Core of Corporate Climate Action

Olli Juhani Helppi, Mikko Ropo, Laura Lakanen

LUT university, Finland