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Energy & Carbon

Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
8:30am to 12:00pm
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Tutorial: Developing Your Renewable Energy Procurement Strategy

Tutorial
Arizona Ballroom B-C, Camelback Inn

Clean energy is becoming central to corporations’ climate and sustainability strategy. There are more than 200 companies with the goal to run off of 100 percent clean energy, and the number is growing. 

As corporate renewable procurement deals get bigger and more common, there are more options and partners to fit more use cases. In this workshop, you’ll hear from corporations that have procured renewable energy in deals large and small, and experts who understand how to navigate the increasingly complicated landscape. 

Join us for an update on the state of the market and round-table discussions that cover different aspects of developing a renewable energy strategy to fit your organization. Conversation topics to include:

  • Setting the vision and goals that work for your company 

  • How to get internal buy-in from your team to execute an ambitious strategy 

  • Ways to work with the community and other stakeholders to reach your goals

  • Understanding the market and resources available 

  • How to manage (and communicate) risk

  • Using external and internal channels to communicate the value to the media, the public, and employees

  • The basics to negotiating terms and contracts for new power deals

GreenBiz 20 In-Depth Tutorials are intensive half-day sessions held prior to the start of the conference. These are designed to offer participants an opportunity to dive deeper into a topic of interest and develop tangible knowledge and skills. In addition, attendees will have a greater opportunity to network with their peers in these interactive sessions. An all-access pass is required to participate.

 

  • All-Access Pass Required

Speakers

  • Sarah Golden
  • Kevin Haley
  • Josh Kaplan
  • Rob Threlkeld
  • Scott Hassell
  • Emma Cox
  • Ken Cowan
  • Emily Williams

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4:00pm to 5:00pm
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Climate Action Simulation: An Interactive Experience Creating a 2° Scenario

Workshop
Arizona Ballroom L-M, Camelback Inn

Climate action is needed, but what will it take to tackle the problem? How can we understand whether our actions will be enough to get the job done? Join leaders from Climate Interactive and HSBC for a fast-paced, interactive exercise where you get to test your strategies and assumptions for combating climate change. Built by MIT Sloan School of Business and the NGO, Climate Interactive, over the past seven years, and building on models that go back 30 years, EN-ROADS lets users test assumptions around renewable energy, afforestation, efficiency, transportation electrification, and a dozen other climate strategies. The resulting experience is hopeful, scientifically-grounded, action-oriented, and eye-opening. Please bring your laptop to create your own 2° scenario during the session (Chrome 57+, Firefox 52+ or Safari 11+ browsers).

Speakers

  • Christina Page
  • Andrew Greenspan

Sponsor

HSBC

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Corporate Investments in Nature for Climate Action

Workshop
Arizona Ballroom B-C, Camelback Inn

Companies are turning to natural climate solutions as part of a robust corporate greenhouse gas reduction strategy. What do these strategies look like? What are the benefits, and what are the challenges? Our experts discuss the role of companies in investing in nature, and how this approach may fit into your sustainability strategy. 

Speakers

  • Hank Cauley
  • Eric Sprague
  • Rebecca Kenow
  • Jim Hanna
  • Lisa Shibata

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Wednesday, February 5th, 2020
8:30am to 9:30am
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Powering Up Your Renewable Energy Team

Workshop
Arizona Ballroom B-C, Camelback Inn

There are more strategies to use clean energy and become more efficient than ever. If your company wants to explore options for procuring renewables and increasing energy productivity, where do you start? In your own organization! This session outlines how the different parts of an organization can work together — from finance to sustainability to energy — to get internal buy-in and reset how your organization can think about decarbonizing. 

Speakers

  • Kevin Haley
  • Suzanne Tedrow
  • Renée Morin
  • Jyoti Chopra

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The Urgency of Working Together for the Climate Results We Need

Workshop
Arizona Ballroom D-E, Camelback Inn

The climate crisis requires us to act fast and collectively, but how? As more companies are beginning to declare carbon neutral and net zero strategies and goals, it’s become clear that companies going down this path need to align on these definitions, set science-based goals, and balance residual emissions with insetting. Without clear direction to reach 1.5C, these goals and climate strategies can easily become muddled, irrelevant and risk deviating from sound scientific standards. 

In this session, Quantis will use visualization exercises, audience engagement and peer-to-peer collaboration to explain:

  • Why companies are starting to move now even though we have known about climate issues for 50 years
  • What climate strategies are relevant to meet the 1.5C threshold for science-based targets and stay relevant for the long-term
  • What is the secret key to making the impossible possible

Speakers

  • Charlotte Bande
  • Jon Dettling

Sponsor

Quantis

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12:15pm to 1:15pm
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Roundtable Lunch: What Can Energy Efficiency Learn from Oil and Gas Exploration and Production?

Roundtable Lunch

The efficiency market is highly fragmented by both improvement measures and property types; one of the key limiting factors in efficiency realizing its full potential in helping to mitigate climate change. Hydrocarbon markets are the exact opposite. This session will consider how to structure efficiency opportunities in ways that mobilize and incentivize energy efficiency “explorers and producers”. What drives fragmentation and how can the market more effectively standardize and aggregate activity? What informs both the limits of using capex for energy efficiency and the quest for alternatives? How might an efficiency explorer and producer structure its business model and solutions?

About Roundtable Lunches: Join interactive lunch discussions, moderated by an expert or thought leader, held at roundtables of up to 10 participants. These are freeform discussions, so bring your own challenges, questions, and ideas to talk through and get to know your fellow conference participants. All roundtable lunches do not have advanced sign-up — participation is first-come, first-served.

Speakers

  • Davida Heller
  • Bruce Schlein

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Roundtable Lunch: Legacy Carbon

Roundtable Lunch
Sonoran Terrace, Camelback Inn

Every carbon molecule emitted by every company from the 20th and 21st centuries is still in the atmosphere, contributing to the climate crisis. What if your company decided it wanted to be carbon negative, from its first day of business onwards? Is that possible? How could that be achieved? Regenerative farming, and its CO2 drawdown capabilities may be one path forward.

About Roundtable Lunches: Join interactive lunch discussions, moderated by an expert or thought leader, held at a roundtable of up to 10 participants. These are freeform discussions, so bring your own challenges, questions, and ideas to talk through and get to know your fellow conference participants. All roundtable lunches do not have advanced sign-up — participation is first-come, first-served.

Speakers

  • Peter Byck

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Roundtable Lunch: All of the Above — What are the Right Choices for your Climate Strategy?

Roundtable Lunch
Sonoran Terrace, Camelback Inn

Climate strategies can take many forms, from setting science-based targets, plans for 100% renewable energy, and goals that are carbon neutral, climate positive, or carbon negative. How do companies select where to invest their money in order to deliver the speed, scale and impact required to meet the urgency of the climate challenge and harness the business opportunities? Join this roundtable lunch for a frank discussion about internal reductions, the value of offsetting, carbon sinks, drawdown and avoided emissions, and what a business can do to focus and prioritise.

About Roundtable Lunches: Join interactive lunch discussions, moderated by an expert or thought leader, held at roundtables of up to 10 participants. These are freeform discussions, so bring your own challenges, questions, and ideas to talk through and get to know your fellow conference participants. All roundtable lunches do not have advanced sign-up — participation is first-come, first-served.

Speakers

  • Mark LaCroix

Sponsor

Climate Impact Partners

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Roundtable Lunch: The Value of Data in Driving ESG Efforts

Roundtable Lunch
Sonoran Terrace

Earthlight, Acuity Brands’ ESG Initiative, kicked off this past year and technology played a large part. Hear from Customer Success Manager, Hannah Greinetz as she shares highlights from their sustainability journey and the value of an EMIS for tracking and sharing results. Chat with Hannah about the value of tracking energy data, how to make your corporate office more sustainable and more.

About Roundtable Lunches: Join interactive lunch discussions, moderated by an expert or thought leader, held at roundtables of up to 10 participants. These are freeform discussions, so bring your own challenges, questions, and ideas to talk through and get to know your fellow conference participants. All roundtable lunches do not have advanced sign-up — participation is first-come, first-served.

Speakers

  • Hannah Greinetz

Sponsor

Lucid

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Roundtable Lunch: Taking Action on Scope 3 SBTs

Roundtable Lunch

Join your peers to learn about and share your leading strategies and methods for setting and accounting for SBTs for scope 3 emissions. Josh Whitney, Anthesis Group Executive Director will facilitate a discussion around the challenges and opportunities of tracking absolute emissions reductions in the supply chain, as well as leading methods for engaging suppliers and building their capacity to set their own SBTs.

About Roundtable Lunches: Join interactive lunch discussions, moderated by an expert or thought leader, held at roundtables of up to 10 participants. These are freeform discussions, so bring your own challenges, questions, and ideas to talk through and get to know your fellow conference participants. All roundtable lunches do not have advanced sign-up — participation is first-come, first-served.

Speakers

  • Josh Whitney

Sponsor

Anthesis

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Roundtable Lunch: Business Leading the Way to a 1.5°C Future

Roundtable Lunch

In this interactive discussion, participants will explore why setting targets aligned with 1.5°Celsius is important, highlight examples from the business community on how this can be done and lessons learned from those who have gone before, explore the critical gaps or needs companies have to overcome in setting and achieving 1.5°C targets, and outline some of the specific actions or steps companies can take to align their business strategies with 1.5°C.

About Roundtable Lunches: Join interactive lunch discussions, moderated by an expert or thought leader, held at roundtables of up to 10 participants. These are freeform discussions, so bring your own challenges, questions, and ideas to talk through and get to know your fellow conference participants. All roundtable lunches do not have advanced sign-up — participation is first-come, first-served.

Speakers

  • Jennifer Gerholdt

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1:30pm to 2:30pm
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Keep Your Eyes on the Prize: How to Set the Right Goals

Workshop
Arizona Ballroom B-C, Camelback Inn

This session will talk about tools and tricks to align your clean energy and sustainability goals with your carbon reduction goals. After all, we won’t address climate change by adding more clean energy; we’ll address it by having less carbon in the atmosphere.

Speakers

  • Betty Cremmins
  • Suzanne Tedrow
  • Jim Hanna
  • Holly Emerson

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2:45pm to 3:45pm
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Destination: Clean Transportation

Workshop
Arizona Ballroom B-C, Camelback Inn

Companies can do a lot to encourage electric and sustainable transportation — to, from and around corporate campuses and locations. This session provides insight into what leading companies are doing to support employees purchasing electric, provide on-site EV charging, use e-shuttle buses and catalyze better last mile solutions. Hear from experts about how to navigate obstacles and harness incentives to arrive at your destination.

Speakers

  • Amy Davidsen
  • Elysa Hammond
  • David Eichberg
  • Katie Excoffier

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3:45pm to 4:15pm
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Powering Sustainability with Microgrids and Workforce Development

Booth Session
ASU Booth, Paradise Ballroom
  • Booth Session

Partner

Arizona State University

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4:15pm to 5:15pm
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How Corporations Can Be Good Neighbors

Workshop
Arizona Ballroom B-C, Camelback Inn

Corporations don't exist in a vacuum. They're in communities, with the power to bring benefits beyond their own operations. 

This session will look at the programs corporate giants Microsoft and Intuit are implementing to ensure they’re uplifting communities where they operate. It will also spotlight how an NGO, GRID Alternatives, is working with corporations to make sure their work in communities is meaningful and impactful. 

Join us for an interactive conversation about how an organization can form a strategy and form partnership, and how and why it can benefit operations and provide a social license to operate. 

 

Speakers

  • Sarah Golden
  • Holly Beale
  • Sean Kinghorn
  • Karolo Aparicio

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Thursday, February 6th, 2020
8:30am to 9:30am
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Harnessing the Power of Corporations

Workshop
Arizona Ballroom B-C, Camelback Inn

Corporate America has more power than ever, and with that comes a rising movement for it to better serve employees, communities and the environment. This session looks at the responsibility of companies to align their operations, political influence and social clout with sustainability and emission reduction goals to ensure a safe climate future. Experts will discuss what the private sector is doing right, where it is falling short, and how to step up efforts. 

Speakers

  • Winston Vaughan
  • Bill Weihl
  • Todd Cline
  • Jyoti Chopra

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