TRANSFORMING MINDS. TRANSFORMING COMPANIES.

// THE FIRST BALANCE SHEET
TO CHANGE YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS //

Balance sheets are important indicators for the success of a company. But what do they achieve?

Do they influence the awareness of your employees?
Do they initiate change to make your company fit for the future?
Do they help the company to transform into a sustainable player on the market?

A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of an individual is a form of a personal balance sheet that changes thinking and perception. It makes people aware of the environmental influences of private and professional consumption and creates the basis for a sustainable transformation from within.

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of the consumers pay greater attention to sustainability while shopping

of the companies believe that climate change has a negative impact on their business

of the companies already started taking sustainability on their agenda

of the managers confirm that investment in sustainability has had a positive effect on sales

Source: Deloitte: The Fourth Industrial Revolution

Become an innovator in your industry

Create change & transformation

Become a sustainability pioneer

Raise awareness for sustainable change

// EMPLOYEES – THE BEST ENERGY SOURCE FOR SUSTAINABLE TRANSFORMATION //

As a company, you want and need to take big steps to push transformation towards sustainability. This goal cannot be achieved without your own employees honestly supporting your goals, especially by your managers.

greenzero.me backs you on your way to sustainable transformation by raising exactly this awareness in your teams.

A greenzero.me™-project supports people – executives, technical managers, employees – to measure and understand their own environmental impact. Reflecting their own LCA, we start an inner change of consciousness.

This turning point makes the company fit for the future by reconsidering its values and products, developed for the society: as an innovator in its industry and as a pioneer for sustainable acting.

Start transformation now!

// THE SOCKS COUNTERS OF TODAY BECOME
THE GAME CHANGERS OF TOMORROW //

As part of a greenzero.me™-project, we survey the daily consumption of the participants during a defined period of time, evaluate their possessions and retrospectively shed light on factors that negatively influenced the environment in the past:

Monitoring
Regular consumption

Acquis
Irregular consumption

Retrospective
Essential data from the memory

Counting one’s own socks is also part of the examination concerning the personal way of living. This confrontation highlights the purpose and the challenges of a sustainable transformation.

It brings a new perspective on the quality and potential of products and services, and on the future of your own organization.

So at least, sock counters become game changers.

Learn what sock counting has to do with the future!

// DATASETS WRITING THE COMPANY HISTORY //

Our innovative greenzero.me™-platform enables our customers to collect all relevant data^* simply and smart in a single project phase – mobile or on the computer.

Our unique greenzero.me™-approach is based on the Life LCA method^** developed by the TU Berlin. It is a transparent, multi-criteria and data-driven model that determines the emissions and the resource consumption for the entire lives of our participants.

The data collected distinguishes between private and professional factors. This shows the effects caused by the work for your company precisely.

Thus you not only empower your employees to realize their own environmental impacts, but you can also sustainably improve the positive effect that employees, companies and products have on the environment.

Start transformation now!

^*All personal data are fully protected.^** Goermer M., Lehmann A., Finkbeiner M. (2019): Life-LCA: Assessing the Environmental Impacts of a Human Being —Challenges and Perspectives. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

// CO₂ FOOTPRINT? WE GO ONE STEP FURTHER! //

The burden of CO₂ emissions is undisputedly one of the biggest environmental problems, but by no means the only one.

In our evaluation, we calculate the individual environmental footprint of each participant in several impact categories that are relevant for the environment and climate.

We analyze and identify the environmental »hotspots« and develop optimization and compensation measures on request.

Our impact categories:

Climate Change

Photochemical Ozone Creation

Acidification

Ozone Depletion

Resource use

Eutrophication

Water use

More information on our impact categories

// OUR CUSTOMERS //

umlaut company

»The development of sustainable technology is the focus of umlaut and through the unique competencies of our engineers we can also play a significant role in shaping this in the next decade. The greenzero project served to show our colleagues the complexity of the topic in order to create new ways of thinking.

The individual results have shown a wide range, clearly describing the different life phases and styles of the participants. The professional impact through the travel activities was clearly visible and sharpened everyone’s understanding that sustainability as a consultancy can be achieved mainly through sustainable solutions for the client.«

Jan-Markus Rödger

Director Sustainability

umlaut company

»Saving our planet is not optional. Sustainability should be part of everything we do. Be it professionally, in industry or privately. All our decisions should be based on it. At umlaut, we want to do our part by offering our technological competence, but also our expertise in change management, to achieve this goal.

Being intensively involved with the topic on a daily basis has helped me to ask the right questions and to question my behavior practically all day long in every decision. I have learned a lot: about sustainability and about myself.«

Lars Karsten

Chief People's Officer (CPO)

dm-drogerie markt GmbH & Co. KG

»During the development of our environmentally neutral dm product range, we took a close look at the life cycle assessment of many of our products and ingredients. In parallel, a greenzero project also enabled us to determine our personal life eco-balance.

The findings from this project had a lasting impact on me and were the ideal complement for me not to lose sight of the focus in our product development for the best possible environmental compatibility«

Adrian Martin

area manager product management

umlaut company

»Each of us has known the facts of climate change for years. And we all actually know what needs to be done to stop the trend. Despite their explosive nature, the global figures, data and facts often seem abstract and far away.

The personal Life LCA is quite different: The inventory of one’s own (consumption) behavior is insightful, but above all it appeals to us emotionally. Getting the green footprint of one’s own life in black and white makes us think, without raising a moral finger. I will make some decisions more consciously in the future, both as a private person and in my role as a leader and shaper of an organization. And it is the latter that has particular effectiveness.«

Andreas Rechel

Managing Director

// ADDITIONAL GREENZERO SERVICES //

Beyond the greenzero.me platform, we offer additional services to help your organization better understand its environmental impact in a holistic way.

Our portfolio includes the following services to help you optimize your organization’s sustainability value:

Development of strategies for analysis, optimization and compensation of the environmental impacts of your organization and/or products, based on life cycle thinking
Preparation and execution of strategies for emissions reduction in line with the Science Based Targets (SBTi) criteria
Development of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) studies and critical review of such
Development of Organizational Carbon Footprint and Organizational LCA (O-LCA) studies
Moderation of the development of Product Category Rules (PCR) (ISO 14025)
Elaboration of Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) (ISO 14025)
Third-party verification of EPDs (approved individual verifier at the International EPD^® System and IBU – Institut Bauen und Umwelt e.V.)
Support in elaboration and independent verification of self-declared environmental claims (ISO 14021)

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

Environmental Product Declaration (EPD)

Emissions reduction based on SBTi

// ABOUT greenzero.me //

Our mission:
We provide credible life-cycle based learning instruments to enable decision-makers understand their environmental impact and to ultimately support the transformation of their company’s collective mindset.

By working directly with science and applying state-of-the-art LCA approaches, our work in developing instruments to support the transformation of individuals and organizations towards sustainability also promotes the UN goals of Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development.