Andre Yvon-Bessette

corporate product sustainability/LCA manager

Dr André Yvon-Bessette, LCACP, is the product sustainability and LCA manager at Cabot Corporation. Working as a member of the global sustainability team, he manages Cabot’s product lifecycle assessment (LCA) strategies, approaches and methodologies aligned with Cabot's broader business strategies and individual business segment needs. Yvon-Bessette completed his PhD in chemistry from Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada, in 2016, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2022, He passed the Life Cycle Assessment Certified Professional (LCACP) exam from the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment.

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Presentation

Aiming For industry standardization on carbon black product carbon footprints

To achieve Cabot’s purpose of creating materials that improve daily life and enable a more sustainable future, it continues to drive technology innovations to achieve the 2050 Net Zero Ambition. In addition to Cabot, most tire manufacturers also have ambitious decarbonization goals. With an increasing need for product carbon footprints (PCFs) to inform business decisions, the carbon black industry needs improved transparency and data quality to ensure consistent reporting to downstream industries. This presentation will focus on the challenges and opportunities that the carbon black industry faces when calculating PCFs and the downstream impact on the tire industry.