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.

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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?

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.

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

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?

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.

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?

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.

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.

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?

Engage customers and communities on key ESG opportunities and educate them on how they can be part of the solution.

Hear from investors and corporates on how to transparently communicate a purpose-driven strategy that showcases climate resilience and delivers progress against the SDGs.

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 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?