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Quantis on Sustainability

Greenbiz Quantis Webinar ... May 12, 2015 ... The people listening in on the webinar

Burgess COMMENTARY

Peter Burgess

Mary Waite: HI from the Australian vising Seattle Mark Wolf: Hi, here in NYC looking forward to this webcast Pianpian Wang: Hello from NYC:D Susan Arnot Heaney: Good morning from New York City Frank Skiba: Cleveland, OH checking in. Robin Childers: Hello from South Carolina. Damien Smith: Hello from Bath, UK. Kelly Kim: hello from D.C.! Rawad Massoud: Hello from Beirut - Lebanon Falon Attai: Hello from Toronto Canada Luke Black: Good day from Athens Ohio Lyn m: Knoxvilleis here Fernanda Monteiro: Hello from Brazil! Michael Brown: Howdy from Santa Barbara, CA Franziska Möller as representative of Andreas Ciroth: Good afternoon from Berlin, Germany! Sarah E. Lewis: Hello from the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas! Alan Robinson: #grnbz Peggy Hetherington: Hi from Connecticut Elizabeth Armstrong, Ph.D.: Hello from Fayetteville, Arkansas Valerie Thorsen: Hello from Florida! Meaghan Krohn: Good morning from NYC! Sally Paridis: Hello from Purchase Michel: Michel Labonte : hello from Montreal, Canada Anthony Livecchi: Hello from Pittsburgh, PA Linda Mansdorf: Hi From NYC Anne Wilkins: Hello from Ottawa Rose Perkins: I can't hear audio Anne Wilkins: I can't hear audio Jon A. Weiss: Jon A. Weiss here from Mineapolis, Minnesota - thx! Matt Drew: All audio is being broadcast over your computer speakers. Calum Webster: I can hear audio so perhaps it's your local settings. Rose Perkins: It's not working - is there a dial in number? Monica Torres: No audio Mary Waite: Check the little green speaker icon on the webinar page - as on mine it controls th volume rather than my volume buttons on the computer Kimberly Lombardozzi: chicago maric: Georgia Gretchen Grani: Richmon California Tod: Boston Bren: Bren, Hi from Georgia Rangarajan: San Jose Michael Bartlett: hello from Sonoma California Maia Becker: Hello from Toronto, Canada Ben White: Racine, WI! Lisa: hello from Victoria, Canada :) Shirley J. Hansen: Shirley Hansen Gig Harbor WA Susan Arnot Heaney: Morning Sarah Lewis! Kevin Esposito: hello everyone, from spain! Sally Paridis: Hello Susan and Sarah Kishore Kavadia: Hi. Kishore Kavadia from Mumbai, India Kay Johnson: Hi, from Lawrence, KS Sarah E. Lewis: Hello Susan, Hello Sally! Sally Paridis: Are either of you going to Sustainable Brands in June? Cheryl Wynn: Hello from Pasadena, CA Nick Murry: Hello from SUstainable Value Chain platform, Ecodesk! Bess Winston: Hello from Washington DC Andrea Nemer: cheers from Texas! Josh Monifi: Hello from Portland, Oregon! Lori Gustavus: Quantis and company welcome everyone to the webcast! we've got some great insight coming up! George Frantz: Hello from Boston Phil Riggs: Hello from beautiful Buffalo, New York! Mike Schwartz: Hi from the NYC office of EcoVadis Deborah Dunning: Deborah Dunning -Hello from the greater Boston office of Sphere-E George: Good morning from Sacramento, CA Gemma Giro: Hi from Barcelona, Spain Kevin Esposito: Hi from madrid Kate Camp: good morning from Portland, OR krista coquia: Hello from Phoenix, Arizona Marilyn Graham 2: hi from north carolina Antony Marcil: Greetings from downtown Toronto Victor Valido: Hello from Paris David Mousseau: Hey from Chicago Ram: Ram Ramanan Hello from San Francisco Van Nguyen: greetings from Windsor, Ontario, Canada kaho Lam: hi, from hong kong Georgina Stickels: Greetings from Rome, Italy Ursula Vogt: Hello...also from North Carolina Calum Webster: Lost connection for a second but re-established. Calum Webster: Great to see such a range of projects from Accor. Marilyn Graham 2: Ursula, Where in NC? Im near Wilmington. Sean Spiller: Hello! I'm here in Asheville,NC. Ursula Vogt: Hello Marilyn and Sean...just outside of Charlotte Elizabeth Armstrong, Ph.D.: Do you think people in the work environment may have great innovative strategies to lower footprint? Emily McGill: Elizabeth - definitely, I`ve seen that proven at multiple organizations. Put waste reduction planning in the hands of the actual office or factory workers, encourage departments to compete with each other, and get great results. WR Beer: Define the population included in human health - e.g., employees only? Meaghan Krohn: @Emily McGill: Id be interested in speaking to you about where you've seen that and how it was implemented! Lisa: I put this int he question box, but also curious what people think: Are most of the examples of companies gaining value large, public reporters, or do we have examples of small companies, too...what's different about these, key things that come to mind requiring consideration? Meaghan Krohn: What is your email? or: meaghan.krohn@cdp.net Emily McGill: I`ll contact you now Meaghan : ) Joyce Dickerson: I submitted this question, but thought I'd share here, too: We use our environmental data to optimize our operations - I wonder why this was not one of their options? Elizabeth Armstrong, Ph.D.: Thank you Mondelez for setting a platform for others to follow. Georgina Stickels: Lisa, the biggest barrier for smaller companies is often the perceived/actual resources and knowledge required to actually put this kind of system in place. Some large companies have 'small supplier' upskilling/capacity building programmes that can help their smaller suppliers get on board (providing sustainability and diversity benefits for the large company in their own sustainability reporting/performance) Georgina Stickels: However there are also big benefits for larger orgs that may or may not be reporting publicly, such as public sector orgs (universities, hospitals or other 'services' orgs, such as prisons) Alan Robinson: If you want your question considered by the presenters, then type it into the Q&A on left of screen. Lisa: Hi Alan. Thanks. As I indicated when I typed it, I have left my question there but was curious what other attendees thought as well. Lisa: Thatnks for your thoughtful response, Georgina! Georgina Stickels: Ooh, and depending where you are, there are also gov't programmes for SMEs: Acorn in the UK, and maybe something through US EPA ? Lisa: hm I'm in Canada. not aware of anything too active here. there are some financial ones, but mostly for technological devlopment. i'll take a look around! Emily McGill: Lisa - the NSERC Engage grant allows industry to partner with universities for up to $25 000 to answer a pressing question to their business. The micro-business I work for used this to hugely augment our sustainability reporting. Emily McGill: One example for Canada at least :) Lisa: cool. would you be interested in providing me a bit more information about your experience with that? you can email me: lisa@andthensum.ca :) Lisa: thank-you! Kevin McCarty: How long does it take to build a strong data management system that is robust enough to generate significant analysis and impacts? What human resources are needed to build out a strong data management system? Ram: Do you do any work in ethics and integrity metrics Georgina Stickels: Emily - what a great initiative! Emily McGill: Thanks! Now just have to communicate it to the customer & community ;) John Cusack: How do you measure sustainability reputation risks that might affect your firm's brand values and bottom line? Do you use the RepRisk Reputation risk ratings system which rates 50,000+ firms around the globe? We find it useful for supply chain ESG rsk analysis... Elizabeth Armstrong, Ph.D.: Thank you, I have definitely gained great insight on what is going on and what is possible. You have been a great help. Jon A. Weiss: Cheers! Mike Schwartz: Thanks! Mike Schwartz: Thanks! Ursula Vogt: Thank You! George: Thatnk you everyone for sharing the great information! Susan Soldati: Thank you! Kevin Esposito: Thanks a lot Valerie Thorsen: Thank you Kevin Esposito: you too Lori Tripoli: Great presentation! peggy brannigan: Hi is there an audio recording available? I missed part of the broadcast. John Cusack: Thanks! Riina: Thanks! Dan Osterman: Thanks! Lori Gustavus: Thanks for attending everyone! (Quantis) Georgina Stickels: thanks all - have a greatday! Emily McGill: Thank you! Have a great day Mary Waite: thanks Ram: thanks a lot Gemma Giro: Very Interesting. Thanks Sonja Antunovic-Curcic: thank you! Victor Valido: Thank you