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Events: CSR / Sustainability | |||||||||
Burgess COMMENTARY | |||||||||
08:30 - 09:00
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.
08:30 - 09:00
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.
08:30 - 09:00
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?
08:30 - 09:00
Government Keynote: Climate change policy from the Mayor of Philadelphia
More information coming soon
08:30 - 09:00
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.
08:30 - 09:00
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.
08:30 - 09:00
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?
08:30 - 09:00
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.
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08:30 - 09:00
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
08:30 - 09:00
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
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08:30 - 09:00
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.
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 08:30 - 09:00
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.
08:30 - 09:00
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
08:30 - 09:00
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.
08:30 - 09:00
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 08:30 - 09:00
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?
08:30 - 09:00
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.
08:30 - 09:00
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:
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 08:30 - 09:00
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:
08:30 - 09:00
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. 08:30 - 09:00
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. 08:30 - 09:00
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? 08:30 - 09:00
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?
08:30 - 09:00
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.
08:30 - 09:00
TCFD Workshop
In this 90-120 minute workshop, Chatham-House rules workshop discussions will focus on:
08:30 - 09:00
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:
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 08:30 - 09:00
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.
08:30 - 09:00
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?
08:30 - 09:00
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.
08:30 - 09:00
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.
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 08:30 - 09:00
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?
08:30 - 09:00
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.
08:30 - 09:00
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. 08:30 - 09:00
Communicate rigorous and accurate ESG data
What is the best way to communicate your progress to different stakeholders on your ESG information?
08:30 - 09:00
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?
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