Date: 22 May 2025
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
The participants in the panel encompass a diverse group of experts who will share their insights on how dairy can contribute to both human health and environmental sustainability.
Keynote
Claus Thorsen, Managing Director – GEA Liquid Technologies
Anna Samuelsson, Vice Chairman / farmer - Växa Sverige / Kalset Mjölk
Abstracts

GEA's Mission 30: Pioneering Sustainable Growth and Global Impact
GEA's strategic vision, "Mission 30," focuses on driving sustainable, customer-centric growth, innovation, and profitability by 2030. Building on the success of the "Mission 26" growth strategy—achieved two years ahead of schedule—sustainability remains a core priority. GEA aims to generate over 60% of its revenue from sustainable solutions, including decarbonized production processes and net-zero solutions. Enhanced digitalization efforts will support these goals by expanding cloud-connected machinery and boosting digital services. With a strong emphasis on resource-efficient innovations and expanding service capabilities, GEA is committed to "Engineering for a better world" and ensuring long-term industry leadership.
Claus Thorsen, Managing Director – GEA Liquid Technologies
Management, Business Process İmprovement, Product Development, Process Engineering, Business Strategy, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Continuous Improvement

Breeding – a valuable key to unlock sustainable milk production
Milk quality can mean different things depending on who you ask. As a dairy farmer, milk quality often revolves around good health and high levels of fat and protein.An increasingly important aspect of milk quality is sustainability. Excellent animal welfare has long been a hallmark of Nordic milk production. Thanks to highly productive cows and resource efficiency, we can confidently claim that Nordic milk production is the most climate-efficient in the world. Achieving climate-efficient milk production requires focus on resource efficiency. On my farm, we work hard to optimize resource use through investments in areas like animal environments, feed efficiency, and biogas.However, consumers expect the dairy industry to do its utmost to reduce the negative climate impact associated with food production. Significant initiatives are underway to reduce cows' genetic predisposition to produce methane through breeding. Researchers believe we could reduce methane emissions from cows by up to 30% in the long term through dedicated and systematic breeding programs. If we want to still claim that we have the world’s most climate-efficient milk production, we must get on board with this effort! But to achieve this, collaboration between dairies, breeding companies, and farmers is essential.When the author makes breeding plans, they are based on breeding indices to select the genetically best animals. In these breeding indices, animals are ranked based on their potential to generate income on the farm. For breeding efforts to succeed, methane-efficient cows must also offer better profitability at the farm level.As a farmer and representative of Nordic breeding efforts, the author would like to invite dairy companies and the dairy society to a constructive dialogue on how we can work together to ensure that Nordic milk production, through breeding, continues to be the most climate-efficient in the world.
Anna Samuelsson, Vice Chairman / farmer - Växa Sverige / Kalset Mjölk
Animal Science and practical farming.

Carbon is the new currency
To accelerate the transition to a low-carbon society and decarbonize our operations and supply chain, carbon must become the new currency and an integral part of strategies and product value propositions. The presentation will share how Novonesis approaches working internally and with customers and suppliers.The company has different programs and methods in place to support the dialogues and the transition:Climate program with scope 1+2+3 accounts, climate targets, climate transition plan and supplier engagement programStrong competences and concepts to support handprint calculations showing the benefits of our productsAutomated product carbon footprint calculationsNovonesis has an extensive setup around bringing sustainability into the value proposition of our products and the way we work and think exemplified by the three elements mentioned above. Helping each other to transition is a must and providing carbon data as part of the product value proposition is the new currency that needs to be communicated to customers as natural as the economic price.As a global biosolutions powerhouse born out of two strong companies both recognised as sustainability leaders, Novonesis aspires to better our world with biology. The company believes that their products deliver a positive impact enabling healthier living and a healthier planet. At the same time, they are committed to Science Based Targets and driving down the company carbon footprint and the GHG emissions from our own operations and supply chain.
Rune Jørgensen, Head of Sustainability, Novonesis