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Ed Long ed.long@ethicalcorp.com via marketing.fc-bi.com
Dec 11, 2018, 9:34 AM (3 days ago)
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Hi Peter,
With tensions at COP24 boiling over as states take different standpoints to the IPCC report, one thing is clear. Business must act and accelerate their action on climate. Business must show leadership.
The Responsible Business Summit New York will bring together 500 leading organizations to share ideas and future collaborations on how to do this. It will be the number one place in 2019 to learn how your company can take the lead. We already have top level CEOs, investors and heads of business speaking at the event, including:
James F. Kenny, Mayor, City of Philadelphia
John Kern, SVP, supply chain operations, Cisco
Hervé P. Duteil, managing director, CSO, Americas, BNP Paribas
Jostein Solheim, executive vice president, F&R, Unilever
Sasja Beslik, head of group sustainable finance, Nordea
Andy Pharoah, vice president, corporate affairs, strategic initiatives & sustainability, Mars
Virginie Helias, vice president global sustainability, P&G
Tom Murray, vice president, EDF
Jon Mitchell, Mayor, City of New Bedford
Judy Cotte, vice president & head, corporate governance & responsible investment, RBC Global Asset Management
Anne Van Riel, head of sustainable finance Americas, ING
Michael Garland, assistant comptroller - corporate governance and responsible investment, New York City Comptroller
Ernesto Ciorra, chief innovability officer, Enel
Confirm your place today at the lowest possible rate – act now, discount ends this Friday.
Best regards,
Ed
Ed Long
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Climate Action Keynote: Achieving growth through a Net-Positive ambition
The nature of all businesses is to grow but, under current models, this growth comes at the expense of the environment. Pioneering companies are changing cultures, systems, markets and strategies that mitigate impacts in areas such as; carbon emissions, plastic waste, deforestation and water to provide a net-positive impact on the environment while the company prospers financially.
UN Environment
Satya Tripathi
Assistant Secretary-General
UN Environment
Supply Chain Keynote: De-carbonizing the supply chain through new technology and innovations
To meet the 2-Degree target requires ambitious investments and innovations in technologies, strategies and clean energy. But to make a carbon intensive business sustainable, you’re always aiming at a moving target. How do you successfully navigate this shift? Discover some of the leading innovations, smart technologies and renewables that are accelerating the move to a low-carbon supply chain.
Cisco
John Kern
SVP Supply Chain Operations
Cisco
enel
Ernesto Ciorra
Chief Innovability Officer
Enel
LanzaTech
Jennifer Holmgren
CEO
LanzaTech
Collaboration Keynote: Delivering the Global Goals through ambitious coalitions
A lack of national leadership on the Paris Accord and SDGs has led to local & state Government, businesses, investors and NGOS to step in and drive change. Impact-driven coalitions will become the norm. How can your company take the lead?
Mars
Andy Pharoah
Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Strategic Initiatives & Sustainability
Mars
Government Keynote: Climate change policy from the Mayor of Philadelphia
More information coming soon
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James F. Kenny
Mayor
Philadelphia
Cities Keynote: Collaborating to achieve the clean, smart city of the future
Public-Private collaborations will be critical to delivering a connected and clean city of the future. Hear how local Governments, cities, investors and companies are working together to build smart, circular cities that help to decarbonize the urban space.
Hoboken
Ravinder Bhalla
Mayor, City of Hoboken
Hoboken
New Bedford
Jon Mitchell
Mayor, New Bedford
New Bedford
SDG Keynote: Financing the Sustainable Development Goals
The SDGs are a blueprint for national development. However, companies and investors are increasingly investing in new products, portfolios and partnerships that will help deliver the SDGs. Hear how leading corporates and investors are re-shaping strategies and investments around the SDGs.
JP Morgan
Marilyn Ceci
Managing Director, Head of Green Bonds
JP Morgan
ESG Disclosure Keynote: Transparent, Investor Driven
The interest from the investment community in ESG disclosures is growing at a rapid pace, with no sign of slowing down. The shift is requiring more parts of the organization to be involved, with levels of transparency being asked that simply wasn’t before. What do investors expect and how do all stakeholders push ESG disclosure forward?
Office of New York City Comptroller
Michael Garland
Assistant Comptroller - Corporate Governance and Responsible Investment
Office of New York City Comptroller
The SASB Foundation
Matthew Welch
President
The SASB Foundation
State Street Global Advisors
Matthew DiGuiseppe
Vice President, Head of Americas Asset Stewardship
State Street Global Advisors
Ratings and Rankings Agency Keynote: Greater comparability and transparency
Investors have limited data sets around ESG and the data sets they have often come from third parties which can lack comparability. Hear from heads of rating and ranking agencies on how they’re striving for greater comparability and transparency in their methods.
MODERATOR:
GA Institute
Louis Coppola
Co-Founder & Executive Vice President
GA Institute
Robeco Sam
Daniel Wild
CEO
Robeco Sam
International Paper and World Wildlife Fund: Working Together to Save the World’s Forests
Learn about this groundbreaking collaboration to help create the world’s first science-based targets for forests, as well as innovative actions corporations, governments and others can take to meet the targets
International Paper
Sophie Beckham
Senior Manager, Natural Capital Stewardship
International Paper Company
WWF US
Kerry Cesareo
Vice President, Forests
WWF US
Diversity & Inclusion Keynote: Realize the benefits of a progressive approach to D&I
Diversity and Inclusion is of paramount importance in ensuring your business is fulfilling its duties to society. Learn how to show leadership on D&I and understand how this can deliver a competitive advantage for the business
Medtronic
Carol Surface
Chief Human Resources Officer
Medtronic
MODERATOR:
American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC)
Hammad Atassi
CEO
American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC)
Closing Keynote: Moving from risk to opportunity
Businesses are increasingly looking towards sustainable innovations to change ESG risks into opportunities for prosperity and growth. Hear how companies are demonstrating leadership and taking hold of the opportunity that sustainable innovation provides.
Cummins
Tom Linebarger
Chairman & CEO
Cummins
Strategy, Innovation and Impact
Businesses must change. Companies need to invest and innovate in new strategies and products that will help lead to a clean, sustainable future. Learn how to lead this transformation. Identify new business models and future opportunities
Think like a start-up: Disrupt industry norms through sustainable innovation
To deliver the required changes requires bold, ambitious strategies that will go against years and even decades of industry norms. Learn how your company can embrace such a new approach and pursue new paths of sustainable growth.
Solarcoin
Nick Gogerty
CEO
Solarcoin
Oracle Corporation
Rich Kroes
Senior Director of Global Sustainability
Oracle Corporation
Braskem
Jorge Soto
Sustainable Development Director
Braskem
The scalability challenge: How new systems and technology can help
The challenge for many companies is bringing scale to new strategies and innovations. Through impact-driven case studies learn what technologies and systems are driving transparency and scalable impacts both now and, in the future
Avery Dennison
Michael Colarossi
Vice President, Innovation & Sustainability
Avery Dennison
SDG Partnership Workshop – Identifying new partnerships to tackle the SDGs
Tackling the SDGs takes a holistic approach – from start-ups, NGOs, companies, Governments and investors. Hear you can identify and launch new cross-industry partnerships that help tackle the SDGs and deliver ambitious impacts.
IBM
Jeff West
Corporate Responsibility Leader
IBM
The Disruptor Pitch: Future technologies and innovations
For many businesses the big transformations and impacts will come from external innovations and technologies. In this interactive session new start-ups and entrepreneurs will pitch their latest innovations and technologies. Then it’s over to you, to ask questions and identify which technology could help accelerate your climate and social goals
Climate Action and Investment
To meet the 1.5-Degree target requires ambitious investments and innovations. Discover some of the latest innovations, collaborations and technologies that are accelerating the move to a low-carbon economy
Embed circular-thinking across the business
Increasing pressure on natural resources are forcing companies take a Life-Cycle-Analysis approach to product development. How can you embed such an approach within R&D, innovation, procurement and marketing?
Closed Loop Partners
Bridget Croke
VP External Affairs
Closed Loop Partners
Aquafil
Giulio Bonazzi
Chairman and CEO
Aquafil
Decarbonization at scale: Collaborating across the value chain
To achieve the 1.5-Degree Target requires ambitious collaborations across industry value chains. From transportation to buildings, hear how companies are collaborating to accelerate the adoption of renewables across the value chain.
EDF
Tom Murray
Vice President
EDF
Plastics Workshop – Reduction, Recycle and Replace
Plastic has been an invention that has been seen until recent years as the perfect material for product packaging.
However, its strengths are also its weakness. In this 90-120 minute Chatham-House rules workshop, learn how to:
Reducing your plastic use – sustainable alternatives
Educate communities on plastic waste and recycling
Closing the loop on plastics
Walgreen Boots Alliance
John Kotlarczyk
Senior Director, CSR & Waste Reduction
Walgreen Boots Alliance
Chicobag
Andy Keller
CEO & President
Chicobag
Greenpeace
John Hocevar
Oceans Campaign Director
Greenpeace
Sodexo
Judy Panayos
Sr Director, Sustainability, Supply Management
Sodexo
Supply Chain Management
The majority of environmental and societal pressures fall within the supply chain. Discover new emerging innovations, technologies, and collaborations critical to sustainable, cost-effective supply chain strategies
Visibility beyond Tier 1 – Identify new risks and opportunities
Most of the risks and opportunities to a business lie beyond the first tier. Both internal and external stakeholders expect visibility and transparency beyond Tier 1 within your supply chain. In this session learn how:
To get deeper in your supply chain to manage and measure your operational risks
Develop strategies and systems that deliver accurate metrics and oversight to monitor performance
Source consistent and reliable data across your tiers to make the right decisions to tackle climate action and human rights risks
Gap, Inc.
Daniel Fibiger
Director, Global Sustainability
Gap
Subway
John Scott
VP – Global Quality, Food Safety & Sustainability
Subway
Save the Children
Wendy Blanpied
Senior Advisor
Save the Children
APG Asset Management
Anna Pot
Manager, Responsible Investments
APG Asset Management
Beyond audits – Systems, collaborations and technologies that address human rights risks
Whilst audits serve an important purpose in managing risks through the tiers of the supply chain, added layers are required to identify human rights violations and ensure decent work within the supply chain. New systems, technologies and collaborations can help identify and solve these risks at the source.
Engage and incentivize suppliers on new climate goals and action
For majority of businesses, the supplier-base is where the largest impacts on the environment occur. Successfully engage suppliers across the Tiers to help them adopt responsibilities and actions to truly drive impact at scale.
Modern Slavery – The investor perspective
Investors will share how they are making investments and moving funds based on Modern Slavery risks. Most of the session will then be devoted to Q&A where investors will be asked; what are their expectations on companies with regards to Modern Slavery? What’s the level of importance in investment decisions and how companies can engage them better on Modern Slavery mitigation?
ESG and Investors
Investors are critical to helping accelerate the responsible business agenda. But what do investors really want? Learn how your company can improve its disclosure and engagement on ESG information?
Getting the right data: What do investors want?
Data needs to be financially material, robust and comparable to be useful for investors. What data to investors want? What does this mean to the data that you collect and manage as a sustainability practitioner?
American Electric Power
Sandra Nessing
Managing Director, Corporate Sustainability
American Electric Power
Walgreen Boots Alliance
Richard Ellis
Head of Corporate Social Responsibility
Walgreen Boots Alliance
ING
Anne van Riel
Head of Sustainable Finance Americas
ING
ABN AMRO
Tjeerd Krumpelman
Head of Reporting & Stakeholder Engagement
ABN AMRO
Engage Rankings and Ratings Agencies on methodology
In this deep-dive session understand what information ranking and ratings agencies are capturing, how it’s impacting investment decisions and how you can stand out from the crowd. Also, there’s opportunities to discuss ideas on how to simplify and address inconsistencies in the differing approaches.
Moodys
Speaker TBC
Moodys
RobecoSAM
Robert Dornau
Director, Senior Manager Sustainabillity Services
RobecoSAM
TCFD Workshop
In this 90-120 minute workshop, Chatham-House rules workshop discussions will focus on:
- Implementing the TCFD recommendations into your business
- Monetising your climate impacts to transition to the low-carbon economy
- Conducting a scenario analysis of your climate risks
Citi
Hui Wen Chan
Vice President, Corporate Sustainability
Citi
CDSB
Mardi McBrien
Managing Director
CDSB
Investment-ready Disclosures Workshop
Investors demand more and more transparent disclosures. In this 90-120 minute workshop, Chatham-House rules workshop hear from investors, frameworks and corporates on:
- Providing the right data and metrics; understand what’s needed and how to provide it
- Managing your reputational & climate risk
- What data do you need to be measuring?
- Measurement and Reporting
The increased risk to the business of ESG issues has led to a focus on the disclosure and ultimately data behind impacts. Learn how to accurately report impact and disclose future risks and opportunities
Traceability and transparency – Getting full visibility and accurate data from source
Develop strategies and systems that deliver accurate metrics and oversight to monitor performance and ensure your company can make the right decisions to reduce climate impacts and tackle human trafficking.
American Forest Foundation
Nathan Truitt
Vice President of Strategic Partnerships
American Forest Foundation
ESG Data: What should we really be measuring?
Measurement of ESG data isn’t an exact science. The amount of data sets available coupled with different information requests and an increased need to be transparent leads to headaches. Discover how to navigate the data measurement challenge and understand what ESG data is material – should we only be focusing on ESG issues that are financially material?
Anthem
Hakon Mattson
Director of Sustainability
Anthem
Citi
Davida Heller
Vice President, Corporate Sustainability
Citi
Breckinridge Capital Advisors
Robert Fernandez
Director of ESG Research
Breckinridge Capital Advisors
Calstrs
Brian Rice
Portfolio Manager
Calstrs
Evidencing impact: Putting a robust value on your impacts
Many of your impacts will be hard to quantify in true accounting values but this is required to show the value of investments. Hear how to identify meaningful data that demonstrates impact. Successfully attribute investments to outcomes that engages the Board and Investors.
Bloomberg
Shaheen Contractor
Intelligence Analyst
Bloomberg
Reporting on long-term value creation
A holistic view of a business, not just a financial one, is driving investment decisions and the long-term future of businesses. Sustainability reporting & external pressure to disclose is providing genuine value to business strategy by demonstrating company resilience to risk, ROI of sustainability initiatives and the steps the company is making towards 2030 targets. Hear what role reporting is playing in moving towards a long-term sustainable, inclusive economic model.
Cornerstone Capital
Erika Karp
CEO
Cornerstone Capital
UN Global Compact
Laura Palmeiro
Senior Advisor
UN Global Compact
Medtronic
Ginny Cassidy
Director, Enterprise Sustainability Program
Medtronic
Communicate, Engage and Educate
Transparent, holistic communications is now more important than ever. Hear how you company can demonstrate leadership and purpose among key stakeholder groups
Purpose-driven communications part 1: Employees
Employees can be your biggest advocates and most engaged stakeholder. Given the right message they can share your story for you. What are the latest strategies in engaging employees in sustainability and making them part of the movement?
Domtar
Paige Goff
Vice President of Sustainability
Domtar
Pernod Ricard
Amandine Robin
SVP North America, Communications & Sustainability
Pernod Ricard
Telia Company
Anne Larilahti
VP Sustainability Strategy
Telia Company
Purpose-driven communications part 2: Customers and Communities
Engage customers and communities on key ESG opportunities and educate them on how they can be part of the solution.
American Express
Myriam Coneim
Director of Sustainability
American Express
Purpose-driven communications part 3: Investors
Hear from investors and corporates on how to transparently communicate a purpose-driven strategy that showcases climate resilience and delivers progress against the SDGs.
Communicate rigorous and accurate ESG data
What is the best way to communicate your progress to different stakeholders on your ESG information?
Quantify ESG data that meets investors requirements
Tailor your communications to meet different internal and external requirements
The transparency dilemma
The challenge for sustainability teams is to be as transparent as possible to all stakeholders; customers, employees, suppliers and investors. But what’s the right level of transparency that doesn’t have a negative impact on the business, when does transparency become a risk?
MODERATOR:
Future 500
Brendon Steele
Director of Stakeholder Engagement
Future 500
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