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5 essential themes for 2021:
The Sustainability Transition:
Corporations need to restructure the business to seize future opportunities that the transition to a sustainable future will bring. Discover how to fully assess the opportunities that the transition will bring to your industry, and identify the investments, innovations and collaborations that will help you lead the sustainability transition.
Decarbonising Business and Society:
Create the roadmap and action for delivery. Discover practical ideas on how to deliver your net zero goals through new innovations, engaging you supply chain and putting regenerative nature-based solutions at the heart of the business.
Putting Circularity at the Heart of Business:
Transitioning the business from a linear to circular business model is essential to meeting your Net Zero target. Learn how to design out waste, keep materials in use, and adopt a regenerative approach to land use that helps build a resilient, circular business fit for the future.
Mainstreaming ESG Finance:
In the build-up to COP26 it’s imperative that we mobilise Finance to embrace, and help deliver, the impending clean and just transition. Understand how we can build a new finance system fit for a clean, resilient and just future – closing the gap between sustainable and economic growth.
Social Equality & Impact:
With diversity, equality and inclusion taking the main stage worldwide, now is the time for businesses to take the lead on key issues and drive real change within communities and across borders. Learn how to best drive action among key stakeholders.
Some features:
- On-Demand hub access: Year long access to all three-day presentations, panels and fireside chat recordings with our On-Demand hub
- Networking Platform: Message, meet and network with peers in the industry to build the connections that will help you with your sustainability goals
- Strategic post-event report for Responsible Business 2021
- Speaker Q&A Green Room: Get your questions about the industry answered by senior executives and thought leaders through our exclusive platform
Key Leaders Driving change include:
- HRH The Prince of Wales, Sustainable Markets Initiative
- Carlos Alvarado, President, Costa Rica
- The Rt Hon Alok Sharma MP, President, COP26
- Sanda Ojiambo, Executive Director, UN Global Compact
- Roberto Marques, CEO, Natura Group
- Ann Mukherjee, Chairman & CEO, Pernod Ricard North America
- Tak Niinami, Chief Executive Officer, Suntory Holdings
- Suzanne DiBianca, Executive Vice President, Corporate Relations and Chief Impact Officer, Salesforce
- Andrew Bailey, Governor, Bank of England
- Alexandra Palt, Executive Vice-President and Chief Corporate Responsibility Officer, L’Oréal
- Adrian Hallmark, CEO, Bentley Group
- Beatriz Perez, Chief Communications, Sustainability and Strategic Partnerships Officer, The Coca-Cola Company
- Pia Heidenmark Cook, Chief Sustainability Officer, IKEA
- Rebecca Marmot, Chief Sustainability Officer, Unilever
AGENDA DAY ONE
9:05AM – 9:15AM (BST)
Exclusive Opening Keynote – Terra Carta: Putting Nature, People and Planet at the heart of value creation
Earlier this year HRH The Prince of Wales launched the Terra Carta that seeks voluntary commitments from CEOs and organisations around the globe to support action and international agreements on climate, biodiversity, desertification and help lead the global sustainability transition. Hear from HRH how business can commit to taking bold action on climate and biodiversity.
HRH The Prince of WalesSustainable Markets Initiative
9:15AM – 9:35AM (BST)
Exclusive Interview with the President of Costa Rica
Carlos AlvaradoPresidentCosta Rica
MODERATOR:Terry SlavinEditor in ChiefReuters Events Sustainable Business
9:35AM – 9:50AM (BST)
15 minute presentation available
9:50AM – 10:35AM (BST)
The Race to Zero Keynote: Identifying the Short-Term Actions, and Long-Term Investments
The global economy emits 38 billion tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere each year. With the society pressuring governments and corporates to adapt net zero has become the ultimate goal. Hear how companies and governments can collaborate to find the sources and tech need it to reach zero carbon footprint while improving their bottom line.
Louis TaylorCEOBusiness is Great (UKDIT)
Niclas SvenningsenManager, Global Climate ActionUNFCCC
Fiona ReynoldsCEOPRI
Roelfien KuijpersGlobal ESG Client Officer and Head of the Client Coverage Division for Ireland, Scandinavia and the UKDWS
10:35AM – 10:50AM (BST)
Build Financial Markets that are Fit for the Future.
Pierre GramegnaMinister of FinanceLuxemburg
10:50AM – 11:35AM (BST)
Empowering Action: Ensuring all Departments can Help Drive the Business from Ambition to Action
To get the culture right, the strategy needs to align with your purpose. And in this era of change, every department plays a vital role. All departments need to understand the difference they are making. Discover how businesses are reshaping the transformational message so that it aligns with differing business units and their respective priorities. All employees need to feel ownership and input to this change agenda.
Rebecca MarmotChief Sustainability OfficerUnilever
John BloodChief Legal and Corporate Affairs Officer & Corporate SecretaryAB INBEV
MODERATOR:Carmel GiblinCEOEthical Toy
11:35AM – 11:50AM (BST)
15 minute presentation available
11:50AM – 2:00PM (BST)
Lunch Break – Bespoke webinar and roundtable opportunities available.
Contact matt.buckingham@thomsonreuters.com for more information
2:00PM – 2:45PM (BST)
Government Perspective - Sustainability Transition Keynote: Rethink Business Through a 2050 Lens
Rt Hon Chow Kon YeowChief Minister of PenangMalaysia
Emma HowardChairEnvironmental Agency UK
2:45PM – 3:00PM (BST)
15 minute presentation available
3:00PM – 3:30PM (BST)
DE&I Integrity Keynote: The Business Imperative of Delivering an Equal Society
DE&I shouldn’t be considered as a gender issue, it’s time we think about ethnicity and what the real meaning of equality is. Business need to include the minorities into the conversations and draw long-term plans for social inclusion whilst asking themselves the tough questions and be open and honest about what they find – only then can we start to deliver real change.
Sanda OjiamboExecutive DirectorUN Global Compact
3:30PM – 3:45PM (BST)
Setting a Carbon Price: Generating an Approach that Helps Deliver Competitive Advantage
Sheldon WhitehouseUnited States Senator forRhode Island
MODERATOR:Axel ThrelfallEditor at LargeReuters
3:45PM – 4:00AM (BST)
15 minutes Break - Case study available
4:00PM – 4:30PM (BST)
Building a Finance System Fit for a Clean, Resilient and Just Future
Whilst it’s clear that ESG will become a central guide to corporate strategy, the G [Governance] poses a big hurdle for many companies, mainly due to the lack of Sustainability expertise within the Corporate Board. There is an increasing need to re-skill board members on sustainability, as very little have the skill set required for this big change. Hear how companies can re-skill the board members to lead in a sustainable world.
Andrew BaileyGovernorBank of England
MODERATOR:William SchombergChief Economics Correspondent, UKThomson Reuters
4:30PM – 4:45PM (BST)
15 minute presentation available
4:45PM – 5:15PM (BST)
Nature Based Solutions: Taking a Strategic Approach that Benefits both Nature & Business, Sustainability
One of the consequences of Covid-19 is the increased acceptance that we need to radically transform our relationship with the natural world. Learn how companies are putting a Nature-Based approach at the heart of future strategies, and the business benefits of doing so.
Suzanne DiBiancaExecutive Vice President, Corporate Relations and Chief Impact OfficerSalesforce
5:15PM – 5:45PM (BST)
15 minute presentation available
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