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All sessions listed below are in Pacific Time (PT).  View the Schedule summary here.

Tuesday, February 9th, 2021
8:30am to 9:00am
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Opening Networking & Forum

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Career & Life Coaching for Personal Impact

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Walk of Life Forum Booth

Gain clarity and focus on reaching your potential for impact with a one-on-one coaching session with ICF-certified coach, Shannon Houde.

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  • Shannon Houde

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9:00am to 10:15am
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Opening Keynotes

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9:00am to 9:05am
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Welcome & Opening

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GreenBiz Editorial Director and GreenBiz 21 emcee Heather Clancy welcomes attendees to the conference.

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  • Heather Clancy

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9:05am to 9:15am
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Setting the Stage

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GreenBiz Founder, Chairman and Executive Editor, Joel Makower, shares the top trends in sustainable business from the past year and insights into the year ahead for corporate sustainability professionals.

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  • Joel Makower

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9:15am to 9:25am
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

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Bill Gates sets out a bold plan to reach net-zero emissions in time to avoid a climate disaster and outlines the steps he’s taking through his Breakthrough Energy platform.

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  • Bill Gates

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9:25am to 9:45am
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Backing Up Statements with Action: The Intersection of Business and Human Rights

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Hear from Sanda Ojiambo, CEO & Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact, on the evolution of business and human rights and how it applies more than ever to the social justice movement in the United States and around the world. Business response to human rights is mission critical to drive social change and a resilient recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Social justice movements have made taking a stand on issues increasingly important to consumers and stakeholders alike, and silence is increasingly seen as complicity. Beyond rousing statements and declarations to “do better,” how can companies truly transform their business models to reduce inequalities and support the rights of all people? Learn how business can proactively manage their human rights impacts through an ongoing due diligence process that puts risks to people above risks to business. It’s time for business to step up, do the work and make a real difference.

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  • Sanda Ojiambo
  • Heather Clancy

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9:45am to 10:05am
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All We Can Save: Why We Must Learn from Indigenous Wisdom

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In our current society, it's easy to feel a step removed from the Earth and overlook the hidden wisdom of our environment, an oversight that comes at our own detriment. What will it take to radically reframe our connection with the earth? How do we make that connection not only present in our lives as humans but also in our work, companies, community, and society? And how must we address our values, those core principles that guide us, to reflect this connection? Hear from Tara Houska (Couchiching First Nation), attorney, environmental and Indigenous rights advocate, Sherri Mitchell - Weh'na Ha'mu Kwasset, Indigenous Rights attorney and the executive director of the Land Peace Foundation, and All We Can Save contributing author in conversation with Katharine Wilkinson, Co-Founder and Co-Director of the All We Can Save Project, on how to renew our connection with nature and restore balance and harmony with the natural world.

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  • Tara Houska
  • Katharine Wilkinson
  • Sherri Mitchell

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10:05am to 10:15am
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Accelerating a Just Transition to a Clean Economy

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Jarami Bond, a 2017 GreenBiz 30 Under 30 honoree, shares his heart for equity and justice in sustainability, plus a special announcement.

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  • Jarami Bond

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10:15am to 10:45am
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Ask Edwin: Unlock What TCFD Can Mean for Your Organization

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Oliver Wyman Forum Booth

Edwin Anderson will help you troubleshoot your challenges and illuminate the opportunities and strategies that TCFD enables.

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  • Edwin Anderson

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Oliver Wyman

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Networking Break & Forum

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Career & Life Coaching for Personal Impact

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Gain clarity and focus on reaching your potential for impact with a one-on-one coaching session with ICF-certified coach, Shannon Houde.

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  • Shannon Houde

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10:15am
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Closing Remarks

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Heather closes the first day of GreenBiz 21.

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  • Heather Clancy

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10:45am to 11:30am
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Toward Global Food Systems Transformation

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The COVID-19 pandemic and the corresponding breakdown in global supply chains showed that the food and agriculture sectors rely on a fragile system.  A breakdown in any one of the components or by any one of the ‘actors’ within the system can cause catastrophic impact across the supply chain for workers, customers, investors, communities and the environment. The crisis has amplified the need for transforming the global food system and asking the obvious question: How do we reliably and sustainably feed a planet predicted to soon reach 9 billion people? Join this session to learn how companies throughout the value chain are driving change towards a sustainable food system and what your company can do to be part of the solution.

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  • Resilient Supply Chains

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  • David Bennell
  • Jim Andrew
  • Jamie Duies
  • Deanna Bratter

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Designing the Cultural Conditions for Regeneration

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The profound, intersecting issues of climate change, social injustice, and health require a new approach to systemic problem solving that empowers individuals to manifest their potential. To achieve this goal, we need to design for new cultural conditions in our organizations and communities that create the platform for more people to contribute fully and in reciprocal relationship with others. This session will explore how when we bring our full selves forward and connect as whole people, we give rise to biodiverse and resilient societies that have the capacity to thrive in the face of change.

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  • Social Justice
  • Sustainability Leadership

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  • Lauren Yarmuth

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The Rising Currency of ‘S’ in ESG

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How is a focus on ‘S’ contributing to increased corporate value? What does it take to develop an ‘S’ strategy? What are the challenges and pitfalls? Join this session to hear from S&P Global Market Intelligence along with corporate leaders on the business transformation towards addressing social issues, and how this is a material issue for investors.

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  • Finance & ESG

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  • Kristina Kloberdanz
  • James Salo
  • Deb O'Conner
  • Lisa Hayles
  • Johanna Jobin

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Game On! Simulate the Future with Real-Time Decisions

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Imagine: You’re the CEO of a global food company. You wake up one morning to a concerning headline: “Water shortages threaten crop production, prices spike 40%.” You get nervous. You know that this can impact your supply chain’s productivity and key business outputs. What do you do? How do you respond? What’s the best course of action for your business today? In 10 years? 25 years? Quantis has designed an interactive simulation to help business leaders navigate these high-stakes situations while remaining within planetary boundaries. In all sectors, planetary boundaries are the backbone of business resilience. They give guidance on how to safely use Earth’s resources so that humanity can thrive for generations to come. Yet, businesses often neglect to consider these boundaries in their strategies. When leaders understand that aligning their business with planetary boundaries is the key to future-proofing their company, they see the necessity — and value — of taking action. In this session, get in the game! Test your ability to deliver business results while building the foundation for a resilient future. A responsive dashboard will help you discover how environmental and social challenges will affect your business decisions and their consequences. You’ll walk away from our time together with insights into how current decisions impact future performance, a clear vision on why aligning with planetary boundaries can help your business play the long game, and experience collaborating with other business leaders.

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  • Sustainability Leadership

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  • Marcial Vargas-Gonzalez
  • Steve Wourgiotis

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The Opportunities and Challenges on the Path to Zero

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As more companies, communities and utilities set their sights on carbon neutrality goals, an uncomfortable truth is coming to the forefront: reaching carbon neutrality is very hard. Join experts leading organizations that are on the path to zero who are thinking pragmatically about what needs to happen to decarbonize operations — from getting started to reaching the last 20 percent. 

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  • Net Zero

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  • Shawn Patterson
  • Sam Guhan
  • Kelly Rytel
  • Vanessa Miler-Fels

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Climate Policy Advocacy: The New Bar for Climate Leadership

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From the early years of corporate action when “disclosure” was the mark of a climate leader, much has changed. Today, leaders are setting 1.5 degree aligned Science Based Targets, and many companies are committing to go even further by setting Net-0 and carbon negative goals. But achieving these goals will be impossible without supportive climate policies. That’s why it’s time for companies and their trade associations to get off the sidelines and advocate for strong policy. It’s also why several of the leading business-focused NGOs are aligned and collaborating to ensure that the climate leadership mantle is reserved for those companies who are using their voice and influence to secure supportive climate policy. Join this session to learn about the new bar for climate policy leadership called the “AAA Framework”, tools to make it easier for your teams to engage, EDF’s new Authenticity Meter, which assesses recent advocacy actions by companies and industry groups and rates them on how they obstruct or support progress, and engage in a robust dialogue about what you can expect in the coming years as workers and ratings and rankings organizations begin to account for your policy advocacy actions.

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  • Stakeholders & Storytelling
  • Sustainability Leadership

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  • Martin Spitzer
  • Victoria Mills
  • Bill Weihl
  • Amy Meyer

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11:30am to 11:45am
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Transition

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11:45am to 12:30pm
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How Boards Can Manage Disruptive Risk

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The COVID pandemic and other disruptions of 2020 have reinforced the importance of clear-eyed risk assessment and sound decision-making based on science. This approach is particularly important when considering risks like climate change. This panel discussion will explore lessons learned by boards about how to address disruptive risk, the tools and resources available to them, and how it changes their approach to governance.

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  • Finance & ESG
  • Sustainability Leadership

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  • Kathrin Winkler
  • Veena Ramani
  • D'Anne Hurd
  • Douglas Chia

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Sustainable You: Maintain Your Energy to Pursue What Matters

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We spend so much time thinking about corporate sustainability and planetary sustainability. But what about human sustainability? How do we maintain the energy we need to pursue what matters most to us—especially when our life’s work is something as challenging as protecting the earth’s climate and natural resources? This interactive workshop will help you develop strategies to connect into your purpose, maintain your energy, and develop focus to continue the work that really matters.

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  • Sustainability Leadership

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  • Chris Gaither

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Nature and Regeneration in Brand and Corporate Targets

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What does it mean to set science-based targets for nature and regeneration targets at the company and brand level? Join this session to hear from some of the early adopters of these approaches to understand how to establish goals, define regeneration, learnings from early progress and results, and how you can apply these principles to your own work. Participants will learn what science-based targets for nature are, understand how companies and brands are establishing and progressing against these, and how regeneration and these types of targets fit into this approach.

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  • Net Zero

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  • Tim Greiner
  • Erin Billman
  • Kevin Rabinovitch
  • Heather Tansey

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Collaboration in Climate Action and Social Justice

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Climate action and social justice are inextricably linked, incredibly complex, and at a global scale and scope. While an individual organization can and must make progress on its own, cross-sector collaboration is essential for transformative change and momentum towards a world that is sustainable, just and equitable. How can companies and NGOs effectively partner to move the needle across industries and sectors? What are the primary levers and drivers of substantive change? What do sustainability professionals need to know to contribute to meaningful change at this intersection? How must companies support local organizations and communities, and how can the sustainability function drive maximum impact in these partnerships? Join this session to hear from corporate and NGO leaders on how to drive meaningful change towards an equitable and just society that benefits both planet and people.

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  • Social Justice
  • Sustainability Leadership

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  • Jarami Bond
  • Ellonda Williams
  • Nathaly Moreno
  • Jasmine Thomas

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The Business Case for Rethinking Plastics

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What are the business incentives and best practices for rethinking plastics packaging in your business strategy? In the world of packaging and sustainability, plastics continue to be a hot button issue. The urgency of eliminating plastic waste and addressing the environmental degradation it has caused is clear — not just to help people and planet, but increasingly to mitigate risk. This breakout will explore the business case for addressing plastic pollution and unpack the financial and reputational incentives for shifting your packaging strategy.  While many companies commit to post-consumer recycled content goals, invest in recycling infrastructure, explore material innovations and pilot new models  like reusable packaging — many companies are still doing nothing when it comes to addressing plastics in their operations.  Join this session to explore the comprehensive and cross-cutting packing strategies on the market and the business case for pursuing them. 

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  • Circular Economy

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  • Meredith Leahy
  • Erin Simon
  • Steve Sikra
  • Joel Makower
  • Alpa Sutaria

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Linking Sustainability and Philanthropy

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Sustainability leaders are tasked with making positive impacts, both environmentally and socially, both within their companies and externally. The expectation that companies give back to society continues to intensify, and there are so many issues that need support, from the pandemic and human health, to social justice and equity, to climate impacts. How can you align your giving strategy with your company values and business impacts? How can you ensure you are maximizing your impact and creating meaningful ongoing relationships with the organizations you support? How can you design an overarching strategy to support causes on an ongoing basis, with the flexibility to react to unforeseen events? And how should sustainability and philanthropy relate and integrate? Join this session to learn how sustainability leaders should be connecting sustainability strategy with philanthropy and corporate giving.

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  • Social Justice
  • Sustainability Leadership

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  • Kimberly Paxton-Hagner
  • Susan McPherson
  • Jeannette Astorga
  • Cecily Joseph

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12:30pm to 1:00pm
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EcoVadis Sustainability Ratings Live Demo + Q&A

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EcoVadis Forum Booth

Visit our booth in the Forum for an overview of how EcoVadis provides a comprehensive solution for sustainable procurement success.

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  • Tom Chen

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Networking Break & Forum

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Align Business Results with Planetary Boundaries

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Quantis Forum Booth

Visit the Quantis booth to see how the Sustainable Business Simulation convinces business leaders that sustainability is a business issue.

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  • Steve Wourgiotis
  • Marcial Vargas-Gonzalez

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Quantis

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Career & Life Coaching for Personal Impact

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  • Shannon Houde

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1:00pm to 1:45pm
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Why Valuing Nature is Essential to Business Success

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Nature is the underpinning of our economy, but businesses still struggle to value and account for it in decisions. Building nature’s value into business decisions can lead to better outcomes for companies and the environment. Navigating this frontier has brought together economists, engineers, conservation scientists, and sustainability professionals from both organizations to advance the research, tools, and processes needed to integrate nature’s value into business operations. Hear from corporate and NGO sustainability leaders on how they have built the trust, skills and strategies to effectively integrate nature in business decisions at the enterprise-level. The session will also highlight a new toolkit for companies to use to operationalize valuing nature and discuss how this progress is motivating future action together to shift how industry values nature.

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  • Finance & ESG
  • Resilient Supply Chains

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  • Mark Gough
  • Jennifer Molnar
  • Todd Guidry

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Circular Business Models: Sell More, Produce Less

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How can circular business models help companies decrease manufacturing and its environmental impact while increasing profit? From lighting fixtures and furniture to clothing and accessories, more companies are exploring models for providing products-as-a-service through such arrangements as rental or leasing, pay-per-use and subscriptions. By redefining ownership, can these models reduce the need for “new” in lieu of fewer, better and more durable products? Can they reduce waste and the environmental impacts associated with production by revisiting disposability and obsolescence? Will these new models hinder or ensure sustainable revenue streams? Join this session to tackle these questions and explore how selling less, might just translate to earning more. 

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  • Circular Economy

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  • Tensie Whelan
  • Cynthia Power
  • Ken Voeller
  • Jenn Keesson

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Worker Health and Safety in a COVID-19 World

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Too often, sustainability is thought of as environmental only, a plea to protect the planet. But we often forget about the social part of sustainability – the people, their safety and their livelihoods as they make and purchase the products we love. Join this discussion and spotlight on worker health and safety and labor rights in today’s world with a focus on the urgent changes needed since COVID-19.

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  • Resilient Supply Chains
  • Social Justice

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  • Sarah Lewis
  • Mireya Reith
  • Chad Coggin
  • Brian Greene

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Driving Supply Chain Resilience in an Era of Turbulence

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On top of the incredibly devastating human impact, COVID-19 brought unparalleled disruption to supply chains around the globe. How can the global supply chain prepare for and withstand the next, unexpected, shift in supply and demand? First and foremost, every company must take actionable steps and implement strategies to help navigate this crisis, mitigate negative impacts and leverage data to ultimately position their supply chain to succeed in this era of turbulence. This includes reevaluating its capacity for supply chain resilience and putting a risk management plan in place, which in turn will directly improve its ecological, ethical and economic sustainability. By examining the landscape of turbulence, factoring in risks including geopolitical shifts, cyberthreats, resource depletion, climate change, and pandemics, supply chains can better prepare for the next disruption. Join this session to learn about how companies are building new adaptive, resilient, and shock resistant supply chains that are strategic and real-time responsive. By looking toward the future and anticipating what risks lay on the horizon, supply chains can build stronger, long-term relationships across the value chain, reduce supply chain fragility, and increase sustainability and resiliency.

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  • Resilient Supply Chains

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  • John Holm
  • Abe Eshkenazi
  • Louise Assem
  • Kelly Boyle

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How Innovation is Growing the Market for Nature-Based Solutions

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As more and more companies set ambitious climate targets, one form of offset is in particular demand. By purchasing nature-based offsets, companies can draw down carbon dioxide, regenerate natural ecosystems and bolster local economies. Demand for these offsets could outstrip supply, but a suite of technological and product innovations is rapidly growing the market for forest and soil credits. Come to this session to hear from the entrepreneurs behind these solutions and the offset procurement teams they're working with.

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  • Net Zero

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  • Julia Osterman
  • Chris Harbourt
  • Max Scher
  • Jim Giles

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1:45pm to 2:00pm
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Transition

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2:00pm to 2:30pm
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Roundtable: Creating Packaging Baselines and Goal-setting

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How should you assess your current packaging footprint and build future proof goals and a reporting framework for circularity? Join this interactive discussion to explore the need for packaging baselines and the best practice methodologies for collecting information against which annual improvements and progress can be mapped. We'll explore examples of different approaches to setting scopes, data management, supplier engagement and a discussion about the best ways to set goals which reflect your organization’s level of ambition.

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  • Circular Economy

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  • Debbie Hitchen
  • Lisa Grice
  • Nira Johri

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Roundtable: Don’t We Already Know How to be Good Water Stewards?

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The basis of good water stewardship is intuitive: responsible use today = equitable future availability. Companies can follow a number of paths to reach this ideal, but guideposts were established by the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) International Standard. This framework helps businesses move beyond their fence line to define the water-related context of their operations (from hydrologic balance to stakeholder sentimentality and beyond) and identify the appropriate areas for investment to address Shared Water Challenges and advance the Five Outcomes of AWS. It will help you avoid buying sunglasses when your stakeholders would have most valued a rain jacket. Join this conversation with two companies at the forefront of AWS certification in North America to discuss the benefits and lessons learned from applying the AWS Standard.

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  • Resilient Supply Chains

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  • Brandon Kienenberger
  • Patrick Boyle

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"Sustainability as a Service": How to Engage Your Customers

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How do you create value for, and from, your customers in your sustainability agenda? Many organizations see their sustainability efforts through the lens of obligation: something they must do to meet evolving stakeholder expectations. This is often reflected in how programs are measured and managed. But looking through the lens of opportunity opens up new possibilities, both commercially and in terms of climate impact. This session explores ways to engage customers as part of your sustainability efforts, from how you position and communicate what you do through to helping customers pursue their sustainability goals and ambitions.

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  • Stakeholders & Storytelling

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  • Simon Glynn
  • Michael Watson

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Roundtable: ESG Governance in the Digital Transformation Era

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How can organizations embark on their digital ESG governance journey to optimize performance and compliance while creating business value? With the mounting emphasis from investors and other stakeholders, more and more companies disclose their ESG risks, impacts, and practices through company sustainability reports. Join this roundtable to discuss why digital ESG governance is at the intersection of the integrated company reporting, shifting market standards, and investor outlook.

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  • Finance & ESG

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  • Matthew Sekol
  • Leonardo De Biasi
  • Lavanya Rajaramkumar
  • Fabrizio Fiocchi

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Roundtable: Immediate Actions Organizations Can Take on their Journey to Net Zero

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What emission reduction opportunities are available today to help organizations meet net zero goals? Many companies are now expanding their sustainability programs from focusing solely on renewable energy to a more comprehensive net zero emissions program. In this session, we will focus on the immediate actions organizations can take across Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions on the path to net zero. Join us to discuss tools available to reduce your organization's emissions as much as possible, as soon as possible.

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  • Net Zero

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  • Kelly Rytel
  • Lindsey Ziegler

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Roundtable: CSO 2.0 — The Changing Nature of Sustainability Leadership

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How are organizations leveraging sustainability as a lens for business growth and consumer engagement? ​This session will discuss the evolution and future of sustainability leadership roles within environmentally and socially conscious companies from architects of mitigation strategy to advocates for consumer interest and stewards of responsible natural resource management. Participants will be invited to share their experiences distinguishing their ESG strategies, lessons on the role of marketing as a driver of change, expanding definitions of successful impact, as well as insights on the role of the private industry in responsibly tackling shared global challenges.

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  • Sustainability Leadership

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  • Tim Faveri
  • Carol Shu
  • Ela Eskinazi
  • Noah Walker

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Wednesday, February 10th, 2021
8:30am to 9:00am
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Opening Networking & Forum

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Career & Life Coaching for Personal Impact

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Gain clarity and focus on reaching your potential for impact with a one-on-one coaching session with ICF-certified coach, Shannon Houde.

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  • Shannon Houde

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9:00am to 9:05am
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Opening Remarks

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Heather welcomes attendees back to day two of GreenBiz 21, along with GreenBiz CEO Eric Faurot.

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  • Heather Clancy
  • Eric Faurot

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9:00am to 10:15am
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9:10am to 9:30am
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Time to Transform

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What will it look like for nine billion people to live, and live well, on the planet by mid-century within planetary limits? How can the private sector galvanize momentum towards action on the Sustainable Development Goals, collectively driving an inspirational agenda for business, and ensuring that transformation in support of sustainability is at the core of businesses’ response to the COVID-19 crisis? Hear from business leaders on the key mindset shifts that business must embrace in order to set the stage for genuine transformation in support of the SDG agenda. These mindset shifts include the recognition for the need to reinvent our current capitalist model, the importance of enhancing business resilience and our capacity to embrace and adapt to change, and the need for more regenerative thinking as we address the need for restoration of environmental and social systems.

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  • Peter Bakker
  • Andrea Álvares
  • John Davies
  • Sunny Verghese

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9:30am to 9:50am
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Why Advancing Equity is Everyone's Job

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What will it take to re-form the sustainability movement towards centering diversity, equity and inclusion? What will it take to repair what is broken, break down structural and institutional racism, and get beyond performative alliances? And what will it take to make this everyone's work, and hold ourselves and our peers accountable towards transformational change? Hear from Kimberly Lewis, Chief Equity Officer, Havenz Network, and Michelle Moore, CEO, Groundsell, in conversation with Jarami Bond, Chief Storyteller, Bond Studio, on the re-formation and values revolution that we need, and why companies must be part of the solution. 

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  • Kimberly Lewis
  • Michelle Moore
  • Jarami Bond

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9:50am to 10:10am
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Courageous Leadership

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Hear from global sustainable business icon Paul Polman, former Unilever CEO and now Imagine Co-Founder and Chair, on how companies can up their game on the climate crisis, social justice and other pressing issues — and the implications if they don’t. While CEOs and business leaders can't move industries and markets alone, collective action can yield tectonic impacts and unleash business towards achieving our Global Goals.

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  • Sustainability Leadership

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  • Paul Polman
  • Joel Makower

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10:10am to 10:15am
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Closing Remarks

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Heather closes day two keynotes.

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  • Heather Clancy

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10:15am to 10:45am
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Integrating ESG Management and Reporting

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EY's Forum Booth

Learn how a software platform can help you proactively manage ESG risk alongside frameworks like TCFD and SASB.

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  • Bryn Pittinger

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EY

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Going from SBTs to Net Zero: Actions by Sector

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Anthesis Forum Booth

Learn about sector-based tactics for going beyond your SBT, and tools like the internal carbon tax. Visit our booth to join the session.

Speakers

  • George Favaloro
  • Skye Lei

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Anthesis

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Networking Break & Forum

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Career & Life Coaching for Personal Impact

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Walk of Life Forum Booth

Gain clarity and focus on reaching your potential for impact with a one-on-one coaching session with ICF-certified coach, Shannon Houde.

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  • Shannon Houde

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10:45am to 11:30am
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Growing Our Future: Scaling Regenerative Agriculture

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As part of creating an agricultural system that is fit for the future, regenerative agriculture practices have the potential to create more resilient supply chains, restore soil health and enable farmers and businesses to thrive. At its heart, regenerative agriculture is an approach to farming that puts more back into the environment and society than it takes out. While activity and investment in regenerative agriculture in the US has accelerated over the last five years, there are significant barriers holding us back. The sector is now at a critical point where collectively, different actors can enable the urgently-needed and just transition of the agriculture system towards resilience and regeneration. This will require breaking down silos between seasoned regenerative practitioners with deep experience and ambition, and incumbent stakeholders with resources and expertise to drive transformation across the country. Join this session to hear from representatives from across the agriculture system who will share the key findings from the first phase of the Growing our Future project, which identified the key actions that players across the supply chain – including farmers, businesses with agricultural supply chains, agribusinesses, non-profits, investors and financial services, research institutions, philanthropists and policy makers – must take to drive change. Using the report findings as a foundation, attendees will explore their role in implementing concrete, coherent action to accelerate the adoption of regenerative agriculture practices.

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  • Net Zero
  • Resilient Supply Chains

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  • Martin Lemos
  • Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin
  • Christopher Stewart
  • Helen Crowley
  • Mary McCarthy

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Aligning Climate and Packaging Strategies

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How do circular packaging initiatives advance — or hinder — carbon reduction goals, and how should companies approach and align these strategies? Climate commitments and circular packaging goals can often reflect two pillars under one company's sustainability strategy, yet these initiatives are rarely aligned and sometimes at odds. Some circular strategies like reusable packaging or selecting  widely recyclable materials (like PET versus plastics films) can sometimes come with a higher upfront environmental cost despite life cycle emission reductions — though this calculus can be difficult to quantify. This session will explore  how companies have aligned their circular initiatives with GHG reduction goals, and approached these strategies holistically. We’ll learn what circular projects have provided emission reductions, and how companies are measuring success.

 

Tracks

  • Circular Economy
  • Net Zero

Speakers

  • Tom Szaky
  • Markus Pfanner
  • Jason Blake
  • Soukeyna Gueye

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Collaboration Towards A Global Set of Reporting Standards

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A single, coherent global set of reporting standards will ensure that all stakeholders can base decisions on consistent and comparable information while reducing reporting organizations' burden. Join this session to learn how collaboration can stimulate a global vision and process while acknowledging differing needs and practices across jurisdictions and stakeholder groups. Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), providers of the world's most widely used sustainability reporting standards, will moderate this panel. Attendees will also hear from a policymaker at the forefront of developing a disclosure regime for the EU, CDP, an international non-profit that helps companies and cities disclose their environmental impact through its data collection platform, and seasoned reporting organization Dow, on its impacts and how best to engage stakeholders in dialogue.

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  • Finance & ESG
  • Stakeholders & Storytelling

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  • Eric Hespenheide
  • Ateli Iyalla
  • Patrick De Cambourg
  • Eunice Heath

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From Risk to Vulnerability Management: What COVID-19 Has Taught Us About ESG Related Risks

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Traditional risk management approaches have failed to arm companies with the appropriate processes to address and strategically respond to high impact ESG-related events and risks. Despite recognition of the potentially catastrophic impact of a global pandemic, very few companies recognized infectious disease as a high-risk factor, and organizations were woefully underprepared to strategically and operationally respond to COVID-19. As organizations revive and revise their business models, they must implement more robust operational models and processes focused on resiliency and the management of business vulnerabilities. Organizations need to better plan and prepare for the impacts and challenges of addressing global disruptions and worldwide networks of interconnected ESG-related risks. Join this session for insights and tools to assess the vulnerability of your organization to ESG-related risk, extend traditional risk management activities to address dynamics and connectivity of risks, and build resiliency to critical and emergent ESG-risks.

Tracks

  • Finance & ESG
  • Stakeholders & Storytelling
  • Sustainability Leadership

Speakers

  • Rodney Irwin
  • Gloria Santona
  • Gabriela Burian
  • Gordon Darling

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Leading the Sustainability Transformation

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Join this session for a preview experience of GreenBiz’s new "Leading the Sustainability Transformation" Professional Certificate Program. In this session, you'll engage in the first step of a 10 week simulation, in which participants build their competence, confidence, and credibility in leading sustainable business. This multi-stakeholder role-play will bring the multi-faceted challenges of sustainability to life and provide participants the opportunity to explore the considerations of a major capital expansion of a manufacturing company in a new site. You'll be cast into one of the key roles within the company, including operations, supply chain, marketing and sales, human resources, and environment, health and safety or into a stakeholder role in the community (non-profit and government), with the opportunity to integrate sustainability approaches and considerations across functions and sectors. This will be a highly interactive session, with breakout discussions and group conversation on key decisions, bringing sustainability concepts and skills to life and replicating the impacts of decision-making on a business’s triple bottom line. The model extends beyond the four walls of the fictional company to include its impact on environmental, social, and economic systems in which it exists.

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  • Sustainability Leadership

Speakers

  • Laura Asiala
  • Stuart Hart
  • Renay Loper
  • Santiago Ossa

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11:30am to 11:45am
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Transition

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11:45am to 12:30pm
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Trees as a Pathway to Social Equity

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Trees are more than something pretty to look at or sit under. Much like schools, streets and sewer lines, trees are essential infrastructure. They are vital to the health and wealth of people, especially as climate change-induced heat waves are leading to more and more deaths and illnesses. But a map of tree cover is too often a map of income and race—especially in cities. That’s because, often in U.S. cities, trees are sparse in low-income neighborhoods and some neighborhoods of color. The inequitable distribution of trees exacerbates social inequities. Companies, governments and nonprofits throughout the U.S. are stepping up to address this challenge by creating Tree Equity—which, simply put, means trees in every part of every city. Many are doing so through the new (launched in August) U.S. Chapter of 1t.org, a community of people committed to conserving, restoring and growing 1 trillion trees globally by 2030. Join this session to learn why and how you and your company can join the global trillion trees movement.

Tracks

  • Net Zero
  • Social Justice

Speakers

  • Jad Daley
  • Holly Beale
  • Regina Romero

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Closing the Decarbonization Strategy to Execution Gap  

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Decarbonization commitment is just the start for companies working to reduce their GHG emissions.  Join EY moderator Matt Handford and guests from Cox Enterprises, JP Morgan Chase, and BAE Systems for a breakout session focused on how closing the gap between strategy to execution positions companies for successful decarbonization outcomes. This session will explore how strategic intent is only the start of a low/zero carbon transformation and the importance of execution priorities against established time horizons. It will explore different enablers companies can leverage to achieve their carbon reduction goals and how outcomes and value realization should be defined early stage to drive continual improvements. 

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  • Net Zero

Speakers

  • Matt Handford
  • Ira Greg Pearl
  • Adam Tucker
  • Jacqueline Smith

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Financing Circular Systems through Partnerships

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How can cross-industry collaborations scale CE investments while advancing a more sustainable and profitable future? Across sectors and industries, stakeholders stand to benefit from the multi-billion dollar circular opportunity. By keeping valuable materials — packaging, apparel, electronics and organics — in manufacturing supply chains and out of landfills, companies can reduce costs and increase access to the recycled materials necessary for translating their sustainability goals into tangible realities. This provides a strategic business advantage, while also creating measurable impact and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Impact at scale, however, will require circular systems beyond organizational silos; companies, sectors and industries must collaborate in pursuit of collective impact and opportunity. In this session, we’ll hear how investors and corporations alike are leveraging capital on hand to scale circular supply chains while showing strong financial returns.

 

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  • Circular Economy
  • Finance & ESG

Speakers

  • Brandon Middaugh
  • Bridget Croke
  • David Haddad
  • Anna Marciano

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Align Your Company's Transformation Efforts to Go Far and Fast

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Many companies inadvertently create competition among their innovation and transformation efforts, but some are seeing the value in teaming up to drive better scaleable outcomes. Join this session to learn how company leaders are finding ways to connect diversity, equity and inclusion, corporate responsibility, sustainability and other transformation efforts to greater effect.

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  • Social Justice
  • Sustainability Leadership

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  • CaSondra Devine
  • Eunice Heath
  • Jeff Senne

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Good Company: How to Win in the Court of Public Opinion

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A lot has been written about how COVID-19 propelled companies to make technology shifts in 3-5 months that they previously thought would take them 3-5 years. 2020 also propelled consumer shifts and expectations. Gone are the days when a company could simply comply with regulations, make social and environmental commitments that were in the “middle of the pack” and run the occasional Earth Day social media campaign. Americans now expect companies to be Good, and they expect that Goodness to be authentically baked into a company or brand’s reason for being and to be transparently communicated about.  So…what exactly do they expect? What do they want companies to do? How do they expect companies to communicate about it? Suzanne Shelton will share trend-lines and insights from her firm’s market research work and lay out a framework for how companies and brands can position themselves to meet consumer expectations and win in the court of public opinion.

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  • Stakeholders & Storytelling

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  • Suzanne Shelton

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Improving Supply Chain Resilience to Manage Climate Risks

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 As climate risks become more and more disruptive, how can companies prepare for these disruptions and ensure resilience throughout their supply chain? How can companies formally incorporate climate change risk assessment into their supply chain risk management strategy? How are investors evaluating supply chain risks due to climate change? Join this session to explore why climate change risks must be addressed within a supply chain risk management program and the opportunities that companies have to create greater supply chain resilience.

Tracks

  • Finance & ESG
  • Net Zero
  • Resilient Supply Chains

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  • Euan Murray
  • Christy Melhart Slay
  • Justin Hodges
  • Priyamvada Singh

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12:30pm to 1:00pm
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Career & Life Coaching for Personal Impact

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Walk of Life Forum Booth

Gain clarity and focus on reaching your potential for impact with a one-on-one coaching session with ICF-certified coach, Shannon Houde.

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  • Shannon Houde

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Networking Break & Forum

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How Agriculture can Address Climate Change and Save the Farm

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Indigo Ag Forum Booth

Hear Arkansas farmer Adam Chappell’s incredible story about how he saved his soil and his business—all while addressing climate change.

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  • Noah Walker
  • Adam Chappell

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Indigo Ag

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Data Suggests That Businesses That Care About ESG Thrive!

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ESGeo Forum Booth

Visit our booth in the Forum tab for a Q&A with industry experts on the present & future of sustainable businesses and their best practices.

Speakers

  • Matthew Sekol
  • Leonardo De Biasi
  • Fabrizio Fiocchi
  • Lavanya Rajaramkumar

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ESGeo

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1:00pm to 1:45pm
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How to Approach Employee Health and Wellbeing Holistically

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Health and wellbeing in the workplace is typically associated with a wellness program or an occupational health and safety initiative. However, as COVID-19 has demonstrated, companies need to take a bold and holistic approach to health and wellbeing — one that recognizes that health and wellness are driven by social, economic, and environmental factors. Taking a holistic approach starts with understanding the social determinants of health i.e., the conditions in the places where people live, learn, work, and play and which affect a wide range of health and quality-of life-risks and outcomes. What role can companies play in impacting these conditions and advancing health equity, particularly in the workplace? This session will delve into a broad range of business practices that impact health outcomes, from pay practices and benefits to job security to the physical work environment, introduce the multi-stakeholder-developed Culture of Health for Business Framework for companies to use in developing forward-thinking strategies, and highlight critical issues for companies to manage as they prepare for a post-COVID-19 workplace.

Tracks

  • Sustainability Leadership

Speakers

  • Piya Baptista
  • Tracy Brower
  • Lacey Willard
  • Deborah Bae
  • Scott Huffmaster

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I Am Woman, Watch Me Lead

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In spring 2020, GreenBiz research found the number of women in sustainability leadership positions had grown dramatically over the past decade: 58% of sustainability executives in large companies are female, as are 54% in smaller firms. But the economic downturn hasn’t been gender-blind. Layoffs triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic have hit women — especially women of color — hardest. Systemic workplace issues, such as the lack of affordable child or elder care, have been exacerbated, making historical work-life balance issues even more difficult. Join this session for insights from resilient, compassionate female sustainability leaders who are rising above this challenge. Our dialogue will address how to lead with empathy in a time of crisis; how to navigate systemic corporate obstacles such as pay equity and lack of diversity within management; how to address the heightened balancing act women face between housework, childcare and their careers; and how to develop effective mentoring networks for women and people of color.

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  • Social Justice
  • Sustainability Leadership

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  • Heather Clancy
  • Eunice Heath
  • Jyoti Chopra
  • Katrina Shum

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Strategies for Scope 3 Supplier Engagement Towards Net Zero Ambitions

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Join this session for a discussion on scope 3 supplier engagement from the perspective of the suppliers, including effective engagement approaches, insights on the target-setting process, and recommendations on how to accelerate action. Speakers will share their perspectives from the ongoing journey of engagement and collaboration on carbon reductions, as there is no one formula for success and best practices are all a work in progress.

Tracks

  • Net Zero
  • Resilient Supply Chains
  • Stakeholders & Storytelling

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  • Elena Kocherovsky
  • Andrew McMullen
  • Juan Carlos Marin
  • Melissa Donelly
  • Christopher Fox

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The Business of Biomimicry

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Biomimicry, the design and production of materials, structures, and systems that are modeled on biological entities and processes, is a pathway to creating sustainable and environmentally friendly designs. Biomimicry can also be lucrative and disrupt entrenched industries. Join a panel conversation with two investors turned entrepreneurs as they share why they launched nature-inspired companies that are good for the planet and for profits, and how you can apply these concepts to your own work. You'll hear from Chad Wasilenkoff, CEO of Helicoid Industries, Sissi Liu, CEO of Metalmark Innovations, and Jared Yarnall-Schane, Entrepreneurship Director of the Biomimicry Institute.

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  • Circular Economy

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  • Chad Wasilenkoff
  • Sissi Liu
  • Jared Yarnall-Schane

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Changing Systems and Behaviors Towards Sustainable Outcomes

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How can companies shift consumer behavior to advance sustainable outcomes? Many sustainable product interventions rely on consumer behavior to succeed. From circular shopping to cold water washing, the consumer plays an active role in making decisions that ensure sustainable outcomes. But when a consumer is unfamiliar or unwilling to participate, sustainable initiatives and business models can fail. How can you encourage your consumers to change their behavior and ensure sustainability success? Learn from practitioners and researchers who are studying and provoking consumer behavior change.

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  • Stakeholders & Storytelling

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  • Chris Coulter
  • Katherine White
  • Susan Beverly
  • Todd Cline

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Why Companies Must Invest in Communities

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Traditional global sustainability metrics are limiting our industry's reach, traction and ability to have an impact, especially in individual communities around the world. What "matters" to a mom or dad trying to raise a family isn't just the amount of carbon a local manufacturer may emit, but whether that family's neighborhood is walkable, has great parks and schools, provides affordable safe housing, has tree canopies that moderate extreme temperatures, addresses inequality, and other factors that contribute to the "livability" of a community. Join this session to learn about different approaches companies are taking to quantify the prosperity of the communities in which they operate, and how they can play a role in advancing the well-being of those communities. This human-centric conversation is a critical evolution of the traditional ways we measure the sustainability of a community, that both addresses equity and conditions that link directly to the daily lives of people in the communities we are trying to sustain.

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  • Social Justice
  • Stakeholders & Storytelling
  • Sustainability Leadership

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  • John Davies
  • Roxanne Moore
  • Debra Vernon
  • Hardmon Williams

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1:45pm to 2:00pm
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Transition

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2:00pm to 2:30pm
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Roundtable: Let's Talk About Sustainability Burnout

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From responding to the deluge of “rating and ranking” surveys, to setting increasingly aggressive and wide-ranging goals and targets, the expectations placed on sustainability leaders have always been high — especially when compared to departmental budgets. Then COVID-19 happened. And a racial justice reckoning. And climate-induced wildfires. And a wildly polarizing election. Over the past year, many sustainability leaders — particularly those with terms like "Health and Safety" or “Diversity and Inclusion” incorporated into their titles — have taken on an entire new job’s worth of responsibilities. Meanwhile, many are attempting to balance remote work with staying healthy, managing childcare, and all the other responsibilities of a “new normal.” The result has been a slew of early retirements, career pivots, extended leaves of absence, and resignations from sustainability experts across sectors. The risks to companies from these departures are enormous – institutional memory and relationships are lost. Team morale erodes. New program champions have to be cultivated. Issue expertise has to be outsourced or re-hired. In this session, we’ll ask the question — are we losing our movement's greatest leaders by asking too much of them? And if so, what can be done about “sustaina-burnout”? Participants will be invited to engage in a dynamic discussion, sharing experiences, best practices, and new ideas for improving workplace mental health, work-life balance, and employee well-being within the sustainability community.

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  • Sustainability Leadership

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  • Kellen Klein
  • Shannon Houde

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Roundtable: We’re Experts in Nature-Based Solutions — Ask Us Anything!

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What is the current and future role of nature-based solutions in carbon drawdown and net zero pledges? Join SilviaTerra and Verra experts to talk about the market landscape of nature-based solutions. With demand for carbon offsets accelerating and more and more corporations pledging net zero, how can we ensure forest carbon credits are real, transparent and have high impact? What trends in forest carbon and nature-based solutions are we expecting to see in the short and long term?

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  • Net Zero

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  • Candace Vinke
  • Zack Parisa

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Roundtable: How to Develop an Integrated Energy Decarbonization Roadmap

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How can an integrated energy strategy help decision-makers in an organization execute on their sustainability goals? Historically, sustainability has been siloed – leading to inefficient allocation of funds and management attention as well as lost opportunities to make the biggest energy and carbon reduction impact. By taking a holistic approach to crafting an integrated strategy, decision-makers and stakeholders in an organization can better understand the range of available products and solutions (e.g. efficiency, onsite generation, offsite renewables) and then prioritize those that will be most impactful at meeting the company’s cost, risk and sustainability goals though an integrated roadmap. In this roundtable, we will explore the benefits of taking a portfolio approach to decarbonization, and how doing so can help organizations gain line-of-sight for how new opportunities can be most efficiently incorporated into a decarbonization portfolio.

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  • Net Zero

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  • Kevin Arritt
  • Martha Campbell

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Roundtable: What Will It Take to Scale Circular Supply Chains?

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How can circular supply chains and sourcing be brought up to scale? The circular economy connects each step of the value chain from material extraction to material recovery. Every product reaches the end of its useful life. A discarded product becomes a potential source of raw materials able to cycle back into the economy, either immediately (recycling) or later through recovery from stockpiles or landfills. How can discarded products and secondary raw materials be captured and reintegrated into the economy? Join this discussion to learn about the challenges in developing circular supply chains, from local infrastructure to product development, and what trade-offs will need to be made to ensure a truly circular economy can be recognized. This discussion will start with insights from International Copper Association's latest research into the promises and limits of urban mining and how these learnings can be applied to circular sourcing strategies across materials.

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  • Circular Economy

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  • Louise Assem
  • Deborah Dull

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Roundtable: Active Allyship in Sustainability

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How can we actively uplift BIPOC sustainability professionals, driving our field toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion? 

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  • Social Justice

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  • Jarami Bond
  • Adiyah Ali

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Roundtable: How to Build a Post-COVID Economy that is Circular by Design

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Join us for a frank, practical discussion of how we can build a restorative, regenerative, and circular economy by design, as we build back better from the events of 2020. In the context of our rapidly changing world, we will discuss the opportunities of (1) product innovations to anticipate accelerating needs and regulations for maintenance, repair, refurbishment, reuse, redistribution, recycling, and resourcing into new raw materials, as well as (2) new business models that anticipate regulations or other market forces that shift the value and availability of raw materials, “waste” and ecosystem services valuation, extended product use cycles, and extended producer responsibility for products and packaging, wastes and emissions.

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  • Circular Economy

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  • Mark Weick
  • Ann Meitz
  • Matthias Brey

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Thursday, February 11th, 2021
8:30am to 9:00am
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Career & Life Coaching for Personal Impact

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Gain clarity and focus on reaching your potential for impact with a one-on-one coaching session with ICF-certified coach, Shannon Houde.

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  • Shannon Houde

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Opening Networking & Forum

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9:00am to 10:15am
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9:00am to 9:05am
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Opening Remarks

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Heather kicks off the final day of GreenBiz 21 along with GreenBiz President Pete May.

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  • Heather Clancy
  • Pete May

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9:05am to 9:25am
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ESG: The View from Wall Street

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There is no question that ESG reporting is on the rise. Sustainability, at the intersection of environmental and social issues, is driving a tectonic shift in investing. Once seen as a strategy that sacrifices returns, investors are now using this lens to mitigate risk and ensure resilience. Hear from  Martina L. Cheung, President of S&P Global Market Intelligence, on why financial analysis is incomplete if it ignores material ESG factors, and the implications, and opportunities, for sustainability professionals in this transformation.

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  • Finance & ESG
  • Sustainability Leadership

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  • Martina Cheung
  • Joel Makower

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9:25am to 9:50am
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Improving Human Connection for a More Sustainable Future

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Join Jean Case, Chair of the National Geographic Society, and two National Geographic Explorers who are leading efforts in their communities to strengthen human connection with our planet for an inside look at how this work is central to creating a healthier and more sustainable future for all. After crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a 36-foot sailboat, Explorer and entrepreneur Agustina Besada launched Unplastify — a social enterprise on a mission to change the human relationship with plastic by accelerating systemic changes to avoid single-use-plastic. Explorer and biologist Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka established Conservation Through Public Health to promote coexistence of people, gorillas, and other wildlife by addressing their health together and improving alternative livelihoods in communities sharing habitats. Besada and Kalema-Zikusoka share their groundbreaking work and join in an engaging conversation about how they and Nat Geo inspire people and businesses to act with urgency to preserve the planet we all rely on.

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  • Jean Case
  • Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka
  • Agustina Besada

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How Youth Leaders are Cultivating and Empowering the Next Generation

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Youth leaders have become strong voices in the climate movement, advocating for climate action, justice and equity for all. Youth leaders are playing an important role, not only in making their voices heard and demanding change from governments and corporations, but also in educating and empowering new leaders and growing the next generation of engaged, informed and active advocates. Danielle Boyer is an indigenous teen entrepreneur, author, educator, and inventor working to increase STEAM education accessibility and affordability through innovative programs that promote technical competency and develop a tangible love for our Earth. Diego Arreola Fernández is on a mission to cultivate more environmental leaders prepared to raise their voices for the planet and inspire people towards a truly sustainable future. Hear from these inspiring young leaders about their stories and vision for the future.

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  • Sustainability Leadership

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  • Danielle Boyer
  • Diego Arreola Fernández
  • Shana Rappaport

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10:10am to 10:15am
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Closing Remarks

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Heather and Joel close the keynote program on the final day of GreenBiz 21.

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  • Heather Clancy
  • Joel Makower

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10:15am to 10:45am
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Career & Life Coaching for Personal Impact

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Gain clarity and focus on reaching your potential for impact with a one-on-one coaching session with ICF-certified coach, Shannon Houde.

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  • Shannon Houde

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Accelerating Progress & Impact on the SDGs

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UN Global Compact Forum Booth

Stop by our booth for a session on how to embed the SDGs with resources and accelerators from the UN’s corporate sustainability initiative.

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  • Thorin Schriber
  • Adam Gordon

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UN Global Compact

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Networking Break & Forum

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10:45am to 11:30am
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Getting to Net-Zero: Acting on a Well-Honed Transition Plan

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On the path to net zero, many have pledged, some have planned, but few have certainty. This kind of large-scale business transformation requires a faultless plan, with a ready flow of capital to support it. With the market acting as the ultimate arbiter, how can you make sure your pledge will turn into actions and eventual successes? We’ll be joined by panelists across industries to hear what steps they are taking in crafting transition plans, the trade-offs they have had to make, and the successes and challenges they’ve faced so far.

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  • Net Zero

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  • Sheila Remes
  • David Knipe
  • Chantale Despres
  • Jeremy Baines

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Managing Human Capital for Health, Safety & Sustainability

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While the sustainability field has long recognized the importance of social issues over the course of its evolution as a discipline, the past year of COVID-19, alongside movements such as Black Lives Matter and #MeToo, has dramatically shifted the ESG conversation toward the “S” and “G.” This has included an increased focus on taking care of employee health, safety, and wellbeing as people return to and continue work in the new normal, in addition to caring for an extended universe of stakeholders (employees’ families, contractors, suppliers, and the communities in which we work). Yet in many regards this is nothing new – and what is considered “human capital management” in the field of sustainability has been the core work of safety and health professionals for over 100 years. This session will explore the dynamic evolution in how businesses, investors, and partners in the NGO community are re-defining and elevating this interdisciplinary topic – and its critical importance to the sustainability community in the future world of work.

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  • Finance & ESG
  • Social Justice
  • Stakeholders & Storytelling

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  • Mike Wallace
  • Malcolm Staves
  • Natalie Nicholles
  • Mary Draves

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Sewing Circular: Strategies in the Fashion Industry

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The need for urgent action is clear: while the lifespan of individual garments dwindles, the environmental footprint of the apparel industry continues to grow. But where there’s inefficiency, there’s often opportunity. From renewable and recycled inputs to new business models such as repair, rental and recommerce to end of life management and more — plus enabling technologies, policies and partnerships — the apparel industry is ripe for a makeover. Join this session as we explore how diverse companies are prioritizing these initiatives and remaking their organizational strategy to close the loop in fashion.

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  • Circular Economy

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  • Jeannie Renne-Malone
  • Saskia Van Gendt
  • Karen Campbell
  • Suz Okie

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Modernizing Governance to Align Strategy and Purpose

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2019 saw many leading businesses take a renewed focus on the purpose of the corporation with the updated statement from the Business Roundtable and launch of the Principles for Purposeful Business. In 2020, the WEF focused on stakeholder capitalism and the COVID-19 pandemic has demanded a ‘great reset’ as business considers how it must evolve and respond to the societal challenges that the year has posed. What is the role of the board in understanding, managing, and responding to a crisis such as this? How can board members be better informed and equipped to ensure business resilience? How can the board ensure that it is taking account of all stakeholder views and using this to inform decision making and generate value for all stakeholders aligned with the purpose of the corporation, whilst still managing ESG-related risk and opportunity? This session will seek to answer some of these questions and provide attendees with an opportunity to hear from legal and corporate experts who will share their experiences on engaging with the board as they begin to reflect on how modernizing their approach to governance will support more successful and sustainable business.

 

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  • Finance & ESG
  • Stakeholders & Storytelling
  • Sustainability Leadership

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  • David Hackett
  • Brian Griffith
  • Jane Schindewolf
  • Amelia Miazad
  • Mario Abela

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How to Create the Future We Want

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The radical disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted deep interconnections between the societal, economic and environmental challenges we face, and provides an opportunity to radically rethink existing global systems. The decisions we make in the next six to 18 months will determine the future of our society, our economy, and the planet. Drawing on the belief that the future is not something that happens to us, but is something that we actively create through every action we take, this session will focus on the findings from Forum for the Future’s latest ‘Future of Sustainability’ report which maps out four distinct trajectories forward from this point, which are based on the mindsets and narratives we are already seeing emerge from the response to COVID-19. Join this session to explore the different futures that are open to us as we emerge from the crisis, and examine the role that you – individually, and through your organizations and initiatives – can play in ensuring that we harness this moment of radical change to transform the world around us for the better.

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  • Sustainability Leadership

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  • Dr. Sally Uren

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Resilient Water Management for an Ever-changing World

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The pandemic has shown organizations across all industries that we must be prepared for the unexpected. Water is a critical supply chain component and disruptions to water supply can lead to higher costs, operational risks, reputational damage and regulatory uncertainty. Threats to water quality, security and safety will only increase as our world grapples with the impacts of climate change. How can we ensure that everyone has access to clean, affordable water, in support of UN Sustainable Development Goal 6? And how can you protect your operations against future disruptions caused by water scarcity? The solution: being a responsible water steward who works with all stakeholders in a given watershed. This session will provide tools and strategies from Fortune 500 companies to help you assess the risks that water scarcity poses to your operations and enable you to create a more sustainable water management plan to ensure resilient and reliable operations now and in the future.

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  • Resilient Supply Chains

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  • David Tulauskas
  • Emilio Tenuta
  • Paul Fleming
  • Leah Schleifer

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11:30am to 11:45am
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Transition

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11:45am to 12:30pm
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The Landscape of Consumer Communication in Sustainability

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The consumer communication landscape is awash with apps, labels and websites to help consumers understand the sustainability of the products they are buying. How do companies sort through the options, and how do consumers avoid greenwashing? Join a panel of consumer-facing media platforms to discuss the landscape of consumer communication and where we go from here.

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  • Stakeholders & Storytelling

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  • Euan Murray
  • Sanchali Pal
  • Adam Werbach
  • Doug Gatlin

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The Role of the Sustainability Professional in Advancing DEI

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The need for companies to address and improve diversity, equity and inclusion has long been a priority, and the events of 2020 have intensified the urgency of this imperative. In addition to prioritizing diversity in hiring, companies must cultivate inclusive and equitable cultures. What role should the sustainability professional play in creating inclusive workplace cultures? How should sustainability leaders collaborate with their colleagues in diversity and inclusion? What is the relationship between sustainability and D&I, and how should these be integrated? What will it take to achieve meaningful progress? Join this session to learn why this must be part of your work and the approaches companies and organizations are taking to drive transformative change.

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  • Social Justice
  • Sustainability Leadership

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  • Keesa Schreane
  • Deonna Anderson
  • Margaret Fenwick
  • Fawn Bergen

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What’s Next for Corporate Renewable Energy?

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Renewable energy procurements are looking beyond a company's Scope 2 emissions. Clean energy deals are increasingly taking into account more holistic considerations, prioritizing diversity, equity, and inclusion principles, and considering Scope 1 and 3 emissions. This session features panelists sharing how they're thinking beyond the megawatt to support broader social and sustainability goals.

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  • Net Zero

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  • Emily Williams
  • Sarah Mihalecz
  • Ryan Spies
  • Joby Carlson

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Incentivizing Suppliers with Sustainable Finance and Banking

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The business impacts of COVID-19 are teaching us all some hard lessons: First, the value of resilience for businesses and their value chains, and the importance of improving sustainable practices. Second, the need to help companies optimize capital and cash flow as payment terms get extended due to the crisis. Managing these processes are essential for building a robust and resilient business and value chain. What if one program could address both? Join this session to hear about the next wave of innovative programs where organizations are partnering with banking and finance leaders to take action on both fronts at the scale needed for global impact. We’ll explore:

  • How combining global sustainability ratings with an innovative new breed of loan and financing programs can boost working capital and accelerate cash flow for suppliers, while providing incentives for suppliers to improve sustainability performance.

  • The latest developments with sustainability ratings that enable suppliers — including SMEs and non-listed companies — to benchmark performance, improve management systems to tackle challenges like diversity and anti-discrimination, working conditions, health and safety, environmental and climate impacts such as scope 3 GHG emissions, waste, and resource use.

  • Examples of sustainability-linked programs such as reverse factoring of invoices, supply chain finance, and commercial loans, that use these ratings as a mechanism for offering incentives in the form of reduced lending and discount rates, or investment due diligence at global scale.

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  • Finance & ESG
  • Resilient Supply Chains

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  • Sean Barr
  • Ana Carolina Oliveira
  • Heather Crowley
  • Davida Heller

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How to Navigate a Successful Sustainability Career

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The role of the corporate sustainability professional is constantly shifting and adapting as the world we live in changes. Companies need sustainability professionals who can see what's on the horizon and devise strategies that position their companies as leaders on today's important issues. What existing skills should you continue to grow, and what new skills do you need to build in order to thrive? How can you continue to adapt, evolve and advance in your career as your role, work, and company change? What is the future of the sustainability profession? Join this session to hear from a group of leading sustainability professionals for their guidance and vision on what's next for corporate sustainability practitioners and how you can position yourself to succeed.

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  • Sustainability Leadership

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  • John Davies
  • Roma McCaig
  • Andrew Lowe
  • Suzanne Fallender

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The Human Side of Circular Supply Chains

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Where do humans fit into the circular opportunity, and how should companies consider and engage them both upstream and downstream in the supply chain? Without intention, a circular economy will continue to reinforce the inequity and injustice inherent in the current linear system and communities will be no better off than they were before. However, an economic reimagination will require fundamental changes, which opens up the opportunity to center human impact in the new economic model. Join this breakout to learn how a circular economy can use transparency and effective management to consider and positively impact human workers both upstream and downstream in the supply chain.  

 

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  • Circular Economy

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  • Ashish Gadnis
  • Lauren Phipps
  • Esther Goodwin Brown
  • Terra Grantham

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12:30pm to 1:00pm
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Career & Life Coaching for Personal Impact

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Walk of Life Forum Booth

Gain clarity and focus on reaching your potential for impact with a one-on-one coaching session with ICF-certified coach, Shannon Houde.

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  • Shannon Houde

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Networking Break & Forum

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Edison Energy Insights: Live Demo + Q&A

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Edison Energy Forum Booth

Optimize your renewable energy journey, create transparency, and drive insights by leveraging our Digital Platform – Edison Energy Insights.

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  • Mary Kate Francis

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Edison Energy

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1:00pm to 1:45pm
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Ask an Expert: The Nexus of Plastics, Climate and Oceans

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What can an expert teach you about the intersection of plastics production, carbon emissions and how your sustainability strategy impacts the ocean? Ask them! 

Approximately 6,300 million metric tons of plastic waste have been generated since the invention of this material — with 11 million tons spilling into the world’s oceans each year. If production continues unabated, greenhouse gas emissions from plastic manufacturing could reach 15 percent of our global carbon emissions by 2050. With the combined devastation to waterways and oceans due to plastic waste in the environment and warming waters, there are some questions worth asking: What is the relationship between carbon and plastic pollution? How should companies address this intersection in their sustainability strategy? What will your carbon commitments mean for our oceans? How should you collaborate with conservation groups to address both the plastic and climate crisis?

Bring any and all of your questions to this interactive Q&A with Janis Searles Jones, CEO of Ocean Conservancy.

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  • Circular Economy

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  • Janis Searles Jones

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Creating A Culture of Mentorship in the Sustainability Field

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Successful leaders do not sit back and wait for new, completely formed leaders to arrive. They consciously recognize people with leadership potential and find ways to cultivate that promise. Through storytelling and interactive discussions in breakout sessions, the panel will foster an important dialog about the lifelong impact of mentoring. Participants will develop a deeper understanding of the values of leadership through mentoring and its lifelong impact and benefits, as well as tips on how to get started or deepen a mentorship practice you already have. Join this session to learn how to be a multiplier and amplifier, and leave a legacy beyond yourself.

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  • Sustainability Leadership

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  • Christine Bruckner
  • Rochelle Routman
  • Genell Ebbini
  • Arathi Gowda

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How to Grow the Next Generation of Sustainability Leaders

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Youth leaders have played a key role in the growing awareness of climate change and the imperative of climate action. How can we continue to grow the next generation of activists, advocates, and informed citizens to engage in this critical work? What is the role of corporations in cultivating this next generation, and how should they partner with NGOs and youth leaders to advance this work towards maximum impact? What do successful ongoing partnerships look like and how can they be mutually beneficial, beyond checking a box? Join this session to hear from youth, NGO and corporate leaders on how your company can be part of the solution and finish out your time at GreenBiz 21 with a strategy for engaging, educating and empowering the next generation.

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  • Social Justice
  • Stakeholders & Storytelling
  • Sustainability Leadership

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  • Shana Rappaport
  • Danielle Boyer
  • Diego Arreola Fernández
  • Stephen Ritz
  • Roxanne Moore

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Becoming a Purpose-Driven Company: Tales from the Trenches

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Join this session to hear from mainstream companies with strong sustainability and CSR practices on lessons learned in bringing purpose into their businesses and the impacts they're seeing on their companies. Using a story-telling approach, three business leaders will share the drivers of their pivot to purpose, how they engaged employees, management and the board, and how they are now implementing their purpose. They will share how and why this is a quantum leap from CSR and sustainability, and why becoming a for-purpose company has become so important to their brand. Finally, panelists will provide a few tips on how a sustainability practitioner can start this conversation going at their organization.

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  • Stakeholders & Storytelling
  • Sustainability Leadership

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  • Coro Strandberg
  • Yabome Gilpin-Jackson
  • Peter ter Weeme
  • Tim Faveri

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Empowering Your Producer Partners at Origin

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Plan to be inspired by the transformative supply chain sustainability and social impact initiatives created at origin by Alter Eco, Numi Organic Tea, and Barrie House Coffee Roasters. You’ll learn about their creative programs designed to empower producer communities by delivering vital clean water access, farming techniques resilient to climate change, crop durability partnerships, and foundational Fair Trade benefits. Each organization will share their approach to driving supply chain resilience by spearheading these programs on the ground. Finally, panelists will provide key insights on valuable lessons learned along the way and recommendations on how to engage your own internal partners in the sustainability journey.

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  • Resilient Supply Chains
  • Social Justice

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  • Jane Franch
  • Michele Abo
  • Mike Forbes
  • Jodi Beasley

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1:45pm to 2:00pm
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Transition

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2:00pm to 2:30pm
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Roundtable: Investing in People by Investing in Trees

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Why and how is planting and caring for trees in cities a pathway to creating more resilient communities? There is more momentum than ever before for planting trees in urban areas of the United States. The emphasis is on socioeconomically disadvantaged urban neighborhoods, as that often is where trees are sparse. But there are not enough people who know how to properly plant and care for trees. American Forests helps people from these neighborhoods enter and stay in careers in urban forestry. Doing so is one way to create Tree Equity, which, simply put, is about ensuring all people benefit from what trees offer to the world. During this roundtable, we’ll discuss the important role companies and nonprofits play in creating Tree Equity and how they and communities mutually benefit from such partnerships.

Join GreenBiz 21 roundtables to connect with like-minded participants for interactive virtual discussions around a big question or hot topic. Select your topic of interest to join a group discussion hosted by experts. Bring your own challenges, questions and ideas to these interactive discussions. Cameras on!

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  • Social Justice

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  • Sarah Lillie Anderson
  • Devon Buskin

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Roundtable: Enhancing Sustainability Culture in Your Business

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What type of change management is required to integrate environmental sustainability in business operations? How can we best communicate the value of environmental sustainability in the workplace? And what are the performance indicators that show we have created a culture of environmental sustainability? Join this roundtable discussion to share ideas with fellow participants on what it takes to create long-term value and a culture for environmental sustainability at companies, including strategies for innovative thinking and engaging internal advocates throughout your company.

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  • Sustainability Leadership

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  • Yanina Barrera
  • David Seitz

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Roundtable: Collaboration on Supply Chain Engagement and Setting SBTs

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What are the best approaches for engaging your supply chain to align on mutual sustainability goals and set science-based targets? And who can help? What resources are available? What are the opportunities and challenges? There are different ways to set science-based targets but not a lot of clear understanding on how to do it, what resources are available, and how customers and suppliers can collaborate. This session will explore best practices to setting scope 3 science-based targets, engaging supply chains on sustainability goal setting through the procurement process, and leveraging lessons learned across different industries.

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  • Net Zero

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  • Amanda Von Almen
  • Maeve Tropf

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Roundtable: The Rise of Social Metrics: Is the S of ESG the New E?

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In the wake of a global pandemic, political and economic instability and calls for social justice, how are companies quantifying their impact in a way that is meaningful for employees and recruits, and useful for investors, raters and rankers? Join this roundtable for a discussion on how some companies are starting to turn the corner of intent vs. action and supporting that with new disclosures, programs and more. What does meaningful disclosure look like? Is including D&I metrics in your ESG report enough? And how do we balance data with narrative to show authenticity? This discussion will give you an opportunity to explore these questions and hear from your peers to help you determine what approach will be right for your company.

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  • Finance & ESG
  • Social Justice
  • Stakeholders & Storytelling

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  • Aman Singh
  • Amanda Cumberland

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Roundtable: Partnering the Business Community for a Circular Future

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The Alliance to End Plastic Waste is a nonprofit organization whose vision is to end plastic waste in the environment. With 11 million tonnes of plastic waste leaking into the environment on an annual basis, there is urgency to find ways to deal with this crippling environmental issue soon. Since 2018, the Alliance has brought together over 50 companies from across the plastic value chain to find solutions to address this crisis. Amongst the Alliance’s investment themes are Design for Circularity, which looks into ways companies can better design their products to ensure a more circular lifespan, and Advanced Recovery and Recycling, which leverages technology to unlock value from waste plastic so that it can be brought back into the economy across a multitude of applications. Join this roundtable to better discover how businesses can contribute to a circular future and help end plastic waste in the environment.

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  • Circular Economy

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  • Haley Lowry
  • Robert Flores

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Roundtable: Energy Strategies for a New Age in Climate Action

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Join us for an interactive discussion on innovative approaches to energy decarbonization in the private sector, including renewables sourcing, in a time marked by an unprecedented acceleration of sustainability commitments from across the business community.

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  • Net Zero

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  • Peter Fadoul
  • Josh Kaplan
  • Carla Walker

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