Powering a Circular Economy Strategy with Product-Level Carbon Transparency | 2026 Global Decarbonization Forum

Powering a Circular Economy Strategy with Product-Level Carbon Transparency | 2026 Global Decarbonization Forum

At the Global Decarbonization Forum 2026, Thiemo Färber, Head of Sustainability at PALFINGER, takes the audience through an honest account of what building a carbon data foundation inside a complex industrial organization actually looks like − what breaks, what surprises you, and what becomes possible on the other side.

In this keynote, Thiemo walks through three years of work at one of the world's leading crane and lifting manufacturers − from the customer tender that exposed everything the existing infrastructure could not deliver, to nylon stickers appearing to emit more carbon than the steel crane they were attached to, to certified product carbon footprints now actively winning commercial contracts.

The argument he makes is simple and worth sitting with: carbon data is only valuable if it reaches the people making decisions at the moment they are making them. Reporting is not the goal. Bringing sustainability to the point of decision − in procurement, in product design, in supplier engagement − is.

Watch now to find out what PALFINGER learned about moving from five emission factors to decision-grade carbon intelligence, and why the circular economy ambition only becomes credible when the data foundation exists to prove it.