International Stakeholder Conference 2026

Explore the ISC2026 exhibition throughout the afternoon, with exhibitor demonstrations, refreshments and opportunities to connect with organisations working across LCA, EPDs, sustainability, environmental data and decarbonisation.

The LeadIT ITP Perspective: Decarbonisation as Part of the Business Strategy

The India–Sweden Industry Transition Partnership (ITP), developed within the framework of LeadIT, brings together government, industry, technology providers and research organisations to accelerate the transition of hard-to-abate sectors. Through seven joint India–Sweden projects, the partnership is exploring practical pathways for industrial decarbonisation, particularly across the steel and cement sectors, and supporting innovative solutions towards demonstration and implementation.

Bringing together industry leaders, innovators and research organisations involved in this transition, the panel will explore how decarbonisation can be embedded into core business strategy and translated into practical action. The discussion will address technology deployment, investment, cross-border collaboration and the challenges of scaling low-carbon solutions.

Moderator

• Rupali Deshmukh – CEO, IVL India Environmental

Panellists

• Claes Kollberg – CTO & Founder, Cemvision AB

• Erik Enecker – CEO, Ecometrix

• Harish Gupta – President, Prism Johnson Ltd

• Naveen Ahlawat – President & Head – Sustainability & Decarbonisation, Jindal Steel Limited

• Mikael Larson – Business Area Manager – Metallurgy, Swerim
  Representative, Tata Steel

• Dr. Katarina Malaga – Vice President, Business Development Sustainable Construction, RISE

From Standards to a Published EPD: How AI Is Rebuilding the LCA Practitioner's Workflow

Shreyas Das
Co-Founder, Nirantara

LCA and EPD practitioners lose most of their time to data wrangling, not analysis - matching materials to background datasets, and catching mass-balance errors by hand. This session walks through how AI can guide a study end to end: implementing the standards (ISO 14040/44, ISO 14025, EN 15804), selecting the correct PCR, running the LCA, and drafting the EPD report itself - while keeping the practitioner in control of every judgment call a standard leaves open. Drawing on the design of myKarb, a virtual LCA/EPD assistant, the talk goes inside the actual engines involved - PCR selection and interpretation, dataset matching, and a practitioner "decision layer" - and walks through the EPD module design itself, including a piece often missed by hand: content declaration (packaging, hazardous substances, circularity). The goal isn't automation that replaces the practitioner - it's a system that compresses the grunt work and leaves the judgment, and the accountability, exactly where it belongs.

Trust at Scale: Building the Infrastructure for the Next Generation of Environmental Transparency

Dr. Hüdai Kara
Founder & CEO, Metsims Sustainability Consulting and CageSuite Limited

As demand for EPDs, Digital Product Passports and product-level environmental information grows rapidly, the next challenge is not simply producing more environmental data—it is producing credible information at unprecedented scale without compromising quality.

Trust at Scale explores the infrastructure required to make this possible. The keynote will examine how localized environmental databases, open and interoperable LCA ecosystems, digital platforms and AI-supported automation can work together to transform environmental assessment from a largely project-based activity into scalable environmental information infrastructure.

The presentation will argue that scale should not come from simplifying environmental assessment, but from improving the systems behind it—combining global methodology with local intelligence, digital infrastructure with interoperability, and artificial intelligence with expert oversight.

From Innovation to Implementation: GCCA’s Global Approach to Net Zero and Environmental Product Declarations

Nicolas Antoniou
Sustainable Design and Construction Manager, Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA)

The presentation will introduce the Global Cement and Concrete Association and its role in accelerating the cement and concrete sector’s transition towards net zero. It will highlight GCCA’s wider innovation ecosystem and demonstrate how the GCCA EPD Tool supports transparent, consistent and scalable environmental product declarations. The session will show how industry collaboration, innovation and credible environmental data can help translate net zero ambitions into practical action.

The CSO Perspective: Embedding Environmental Transparency into Business Strategy

As environmental transparency becomes a strategic priority driven by trade requirements, regulation, and investor expectations, Chief Sustainability Officers (CSOs) are playing a key role in integrating LCA and EPDs into core business decision-making. This panel brings together senior sustainability leaders to share how environmental data is being embedded into corporate strategy, product development, and market positioning. 

The discussion will focus on real-world implementation, including how organisations build the business case for LCA and EPDs, secure internal buy-in, and balance cost, data quality, and scalability. It will also explore how compperformance andding to global requirements such as CBAM, aligning sustainability with business performance, and using credible data to strengthen competitiveness and access international markets.

Moderator

• Dr. Rajesh Singh – Vice President, Sustainability Consulting, Sphera Solutions

Panellists

• Sanjay K. Singh – Chief Sustainability Officer & Corporate Head – Environment & Sustainability, My Home Industries Private Limited (MAHA Cement)

• Vivek P. Adhia – Chief Sustainability Officer & Joint Executive President, UltraTech Cement (Aditya Birla Group)

• Dr. Ashok Menon – Chief Sustainability Officer, Indorama Group

• Prabodha Acharya – Chief Sustainability Officer, JSW Group

• Shama Jain – Head of Sustainability, Hindustan Zinc Limited

Green Products for Now and Future – A View in the Construction Sector

Vaibhav Rathi
Senior Advisor – Climate Change and Circular Economy, GIZ

A typical construction project incorporates hundreds of different products, many of which have significant life-cycle carbon emissions and energy footprints. At the same time, Indian industry has developed and commercialised greener alternatives to several conventional construction products, with significant potential for large-scale adoption. These solutions have been scientifically developed, commercially tested, and, in many cases, supported by primary data on their life-cycle environmental impacts.

Can Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) help these products scale by providing the necessary policy recognition and creating stronger market demand? Which other construction products should be prioritised for EPD development in India?

This innovation showcase will present product solutions that are available today and ready for wider market adoption, while also highlighting emerging solutions with the potential to be scaled in the future. It will explore how EPDs can help bridge the gap between innovation, credible environmental performance data, policy support, and market uptake.

Ambassador’s Residence, Embassy of Sweden, New Delhi

By invitation only

As the CBAM entered its definitive regime in 2026 — requiring the purchase and surrender of CBAM certificates for embedded emissions — exporters must understand their critical role in supporting EU importers with accurate, verifiable data. This four-hour intensive training program provides a complete roadmap for navigating the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). This course is tailored for exporters providing goods to the EU market within designated high-risk sectors, including Cement, Iron & Steel, Fertilizers, Electricity, Aluminum, and Hydrogen. It offers a comprehensive interpretation of CBAM regulations and outlines the corresponding legal obligations. Participants will move from understanding the basics of carbon leakage to the practical application of reporting templates, ensuring they are fully prepared to deal with CBAM requirements and avoid financial penalties.

Training Structure 

• Introduction to CBAM and its strategic context (including links to EU ETS and other carbon instruments) 

• CBAM scope, timeline, and alignment with EU climate goals 

• Key obligations for non-EU exporters in the CBAM process 

• Data collection, reporting requirements, and verification 

• Default values vs. verified actual data 

• Practical guidance on CBAM certificates, adjustments, and financial implications 

• Overview of official reporting templates and tools 

• Q&A session 

Learning Outcomes  

By the end of this training, participants will be able to: 

• Understand the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), its purpose in preventing carbon leakage, and its relation to other EU carbon instruments. 

• Explain how CBAM aligns with and complements the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), including the phase-out of free allowances and equivalent carbon pricing for imports. 

• Clearly identify the responsibilities of exporters (non-EU producers) in supporting CBAM implementation, particularly in providing emissions data to EU importers for reporting and certificate surrender. 

• Know the specific data requirements for CBAM reporting, including direct and indirect embedded greenhouse gas emissions for covered goods. 

• Understand the critical importance of using verified actual emissions data versus default values, and the advantages of verified data in reducing CBAM costs. 

• Grasp the concept of CBAM calculation methods for determining embedded emissions, CBAM certificate requirements, deductions for any carbon prices already paid abroad, and necessary adjustments. 

This four-hour hands-on workshop bridges the gap between methodology and real-world life cycle assessment (LCA) development for Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs). It is designed for practitioners who want to strengthen their practical skills in building robust LCAs that are transparent, verifiable, and aligned with EPD requirements. Participants will learn how to structure datasets, assess and combine primary and secondary data, make defensible allocation decisions, and prepare documentation suitable for third-party verification. Through interactive demonstrations, practical examples, and case-based exercises, attendees will develop a systematic workflow they can apply directly to their own LCA and EPD projects. 

Training Structure 

Chapter 1: Foundation & Data Strategy 
This chapter introduces the EPD development lifecycle and explains how LCA work should be planned from the start. It focuses on structuring datasets for transparency and deciding how to approach primary and secondary data collection in a practical way. 

Chapter 2: Data Quality & Modelling 
This chapter examines how data quality affects the strength of an LCA and how to make sound modelling choices under real project constraints. It helps participants understand how to combine different data sources while maintaining consistency and credibility. 

Chapter 3: Allocation & Documentation 
This chapter focuses on making defensible allocation choices and documenting assumptions clearly. It highlights the importance of traceability and good supporting documentation for review and verification. 

Chapter 4: Verification Readiness & Practical Application 
This chapter brings the earlier topics together through practical examples and case-based discussion. It shows how to prepare an LCA study and its documentation so that it is ready for third-party verification and EPD use. 

Learning Outcomes  

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to: 

• Understand the key steps in LCA for EPD development 

• Improve dataset structure and data quality approaches 

• Make more robust methodological choices 

• Document LCA work more clearly for verification 

• Apply a practical workflow in their own projects

Note

This training is sponsored by Circa, and each participant will receive €10 in credits to explore and use the platform.

As organisations increasingly invest in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), the focus is shifting from measurement to impact, how to use life-cycle data to drive meaningful decarbonisation. This four-hour training session explores how LCA can support practical emissions reduction strategies across products, processes, and supply chains. 

Participants will learn how to identify carbon hotspots, prioritise interventions, and translate LCA results into actionable decisions that align with both regulatory requirements and business objectives. Through practical examples and guided discussion, the training will demonstrate how LCA can move beyond reporting to become a tool for strategic decarbonisation. 

Learning Outcomes 
By the end of this training, participants will be able to: 

• Understand how LCA can support decarbonisation strategies  

• Identify carbon hotspots and prioritise reduction actions  

• Translate LCA results into practical, business-relevant decisions  

• Integrate life-cycle thinking into product development and supply chain management  

• Strengthen the role of data in achieving measurable emissions reductions 

As Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) become increasingly relevant in procurement, product selection, and compliance processes, the ability to correctly interpret and apply EPD data is essential. This training session introduces participants to the structure, content, and practical use of EPDs, helping bridge the gap between technical documentation and real-world decision-making.

The session will explore how EPDs can support both public and private procurement processes, with a focus on practical application. Drawing on real case studies, participants will gain insights into how EPD data is used in purchasing decisions, what to look for when comparing products, and how to avoid common misinterpretations.

Training Structure

The training will begin with an introduction to what an EPD is, how it is developed, and the role of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Product Category Rules (PCRs), and verification in ensuring credibility. It will then guide participants through the typical structure of an EPD, including system boundaries, impact categories, and key indicators. Building on this foundation, the session will explore how to assess comparability between EPDs, what limitations to be aware of, and how to interpret results in a meaningful way. Finally, the training will examine how EPDs can be used in public and private purchasing processes, supported by practical examples and real case studies.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the structure and purpose of Environmental Product Declarations

• Navigate and interpret key sections and indicators within an EPD

• Recognise the conditions required for comparing EPDs

• Apply EPD data in procurement and product selection processes

• Avoid common misunderstandings and misuses of EPD information

This four-hour interactive workshop provides a comprehensive introduction to the International EPD System and the practical steps required to develop and publish an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD). Designed for manufacturers and LCA consultants, the session builds both conceptual understanding and practical confidence to engage with EPD development. Participants will gain insights into how the system works, how to navigate the EPD process, and how to apply lifecycle-based thinking in practice. Through a combination of presentations, real-world examples, and interactive discussions, the workshop will support participants in identifying their role and next steps within the EPD ecosystem. 

Workshop Structure 

Chapter 1: Introduction & Strategic Context 
Introduces the International EPD System, why EPDs matter globally, and their growing relevance in India in relation to exports, regulation, and market access. 

Chapter 2: Understanding the International EPD System 
Explains what an EPD is and how the system functions through LCA, PCRs, verification, and the roles of key actors. 

Chapter 3: The EPD Development Process 
Presents the step-by-step process of developing an EPD, from defining scope and selecting a PCR to verification and publication. 

Chapter 4: PCR Development & Application 
Clarifies what PCRs are, how to choose the right one, and when a new PCR may need to be developed or updated. 

Chapter 5: The Client Journey – From Zero to Published EPD 
Shows the practical journey of a new client, highlighting the roles of manufacturers, consultants, and EPD International throughout the process. 

Chapter 6: Harmonisation & Global Alignment 
Explores how the International EPD System aligns with key standards, frameworks, and other EPD programmes to support wider acceptance. 

Chapter 7: Using the EPD Portal 
Provides a practical overview of how to use the EPD Portal to register, manage projects, handle verification, and publish EPDs. 

Chapter 8: Wrap-up & Key Takeaways 
Summarises the main lessons of the workshop and helps participants identify practical next steps for their EPD journey. 

Learning Outcomes 
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to: 

• Understand the structure and functioning of the International EPD System  

• Identify the key steps required to develop and publish an EPD  

• Understand how to select and apply Product Category Rules  

• Recognise the roles of manufacturers, consultants, and verifiers  

• Gain practical insights into timelines, data needs, and common challenges  

• Navigate the EPD Portal and identify next steps for engagement 

This four-hour workshop is designed to introduce the verifier mindset within the International EPD System (IES) to experienced LCA professionals in India and Southeast Asia. It provides a practical and structured overview of the verifier role, from formal requirements and responsibilities to regional considerations and real-world verification practice. Through presentations, expert insights, and a guided practice session, participants will deepen their understanding of what it means to act as a verifier in the IES and how verification is carried out in practice. The workshop also includes a networking opportunity, giving participants the chance to engage with EPD International staff involved in the verifier selection and appointment process within the system. 

Prerequisites 
Participants should have at least three years of LCA experience. Before attending, they are expected to read Sections 5, 7, and 8 of the General Programme Instructions (GPI) version 5.0.1 and be familiar with Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) as a concept. 

Please note 
The agenda below is preliminary, and additional guest speakers may be announced. Participation in this workshop does not automatically guarantee that the participant, or the company they represent, will be selected and/or appointed as a verifier in the International EPD System. 

Workshop Structure 

• Chapter 1: Pathway to Becoming a Verifier in the International EPD System 

• Chapter 2: Regional Perspectives on EPD Verification 

• Chapter 3: Practical Lessons from an Experienced Verifier 

• Chapter 4: Practising the Verifier Mindset 

• Chapter 5: Networking and System Dialogue 

Learning Outcomes 

• By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to: 

• Understand the role and responsibilities of verifiers within the International EPD System 

• Identify the main pathways and requirements for becoming a verifier, including the distinction between individual verifiers and accredited certification bodies 

• Recognise key regional considerations affecting verification practice in India and Southeast Asia 

• Gain practical insights into how verification is carried out in real projects and what professional judgment it requires 

• Apply a verifier mindset to practical review situations and better understand verification readiness 

• Build awareness of how the verifier selection and appointment process works within the International EPD System