sustainbrands

A discussion session based on the morning plenary presentation by the same title, with additional corporate case studies to explore, as well as plenty of time devoted to Q&A with the audience.

Discussions about life cycle assessment (LCA) usually center around either its tremendous promise for helping us make sense of the very complex questions posed by sustainability issues, or its occasional failure to live up to that promise - and the frustrations surrounding the resources required along with the limited issue LCA is competent to address. The sustainability community has learned a tremendous amount in recent years and one can now see a coming-of-age of LCA-based approaches that are more practical, more focused and more scientifically advanced than what was available just a few short years ago. This session will focus both on explaining these developments to the participants with a set of expert speakers, as well as offering active feedback. In particular, the session will look at how LCA has been maturing beyond its core and reliable applications, such as product carbon foot-printing, into applications that address many more types of questions with more reliable information. The themes to be presented will focus on how LCA has matured in dimensions of the subjects on which it is focused, the issues it is addressing, and the scale on which it is happening.

By this point, SASB's mission -- to develop and disseminate sustainability accounting standards that help publicly-listed corporations disclose material factors in compliance with SEC requirements, thus improving corporate performance on the environmental, social, and governance issues most likely to impact value -- is well known and widely respected in sustainability circles in the US. This workshop aims to help corporate sustainability professionals understand exactly how SASB is working towards that high-level vision, by taking a close look at the organization's process and progress to date.

In the grand scheme of things, sustainability teams -- wherever they exist -- are very recent additions to companies' formal organizational structures. As such, many of them are facing the disadvantage of no pre-existing commonly-accepted best practices or tools to use in their work. Sustainability professionals are often overwhelmed by the distance they have to cover between setting high-level goals and figuring out what specific steps they can take to make meaningful progress. This workshop, led by a thought leader with a few decades of experience in the field, former Leader of the Sustainability Transformation & Sustainability Strategy practice at Deloitte, will reveal a new wave of practical tools aiming to help automate common sustainability-team workflows.

Valuing key environmental and social impacts in monetary terms – in attempts to arrive at the full picture of true benefits and costs involved – remains both a big opportunity and a tough challenge for corporate sustainability executives. If done in a compelling way and backed by quality data, this emerging 'art' has the potential to revolutionize many business incentives and ROI models in favor of more complete and accurate valuation practices. Join this workshop to hear leading experts present the latest advances in assigning dollar values to previously-unaccounted-for sustainability impacts. Both environmental (emphasis on carbon, water and waste) and social impacts will be covered.

The intersection of sustainability programs and employee engagement is a critical component of any company's sustainability or CSR agenda. So much work is being done and demanded at this intersection that we can confidently say it is one of the few hottest topics – if not THE hottest one – in the global Sustainable Brands community this year. This workshop will piece together a compilation of best-in-class approaches to effective employee engagement to date, highlighting practical conceptual frameworks, tools and case studies that are proving especially valuable.

Featuring: Mark McElroy and Jeff Gowdy.

Featuring Simon Mainwaring (We First), Christophe Fauconnier (Innate Motion), Tom LaForge (Coca-Cola), Javier Rodriguez Merino (Coca-Cola)

Featuring Jason Saul (Mission Measurement)

Featuring Ory Zik (Energy Points)

Featuring Amy du Pon (Havas Media)

Featuring Jessica Grillo (Rainforest Alliance)

Featuring Amy Longsworth (PwC)and Amy Hargroves (Sprint)

Featuring Thomas Odenwald (SAP)

Featuring Bill Shireman (Future500)

Featuring Lindsay Stoda (Interface)

Featuring Paul Herman (HIP Investor), Joy Poland (Building Bridges), Bart Houlahan (B Lab), Stephen Donofrio (CDP), Bill Baue (corporate sustainability architect)

Featuring Bob Willard (The New Sustainability Advantage)

Featuring Andrew Harner (MARS)

Featuring Bea Boccalandro (Georgetown University), Witold Henisz (Wharton, UPenn), and Lise Lauren (EarthShift).

Featuring Rob Bernard (Microsoft)and Bruce Rauhe (Disney).

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