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Full Programme

11 February, Pre-conference Masterclass

2:00pm - 5:00pm Learn Practical Skills from one of the most trusted names in climate change communications

Environmental Resources Management (ERM) is the world's leading provider of environmental consulting services

Hear from key practitioners in the areas of footprinting, assurance of carbon claims, and climate risk assessment about the cutting-edge solutions and how you can apply them immediately in your organisation. Learn:

  • How to assess the climate change to risks and opportunities for your company, in a way that your CFO will understand
  • How to calculate and use carbon footprints: for your organisation, your products and your projects
  • How to reassure an increasingly sceptical public that your carbon claims are meaningful and trustworthy

 

Environmental Resources Management (ERM), Charles Allison, Partner

12 February, Day 1

9:15am - 9:30am Keynote Speech

  • HSBC, Nick Robins, Head of Climate Change Centre of Excellence

9:30am - 11:00am Session 1

Climate Change: How to prepare your business to be a low carbon leader

Climate Change has raced to the head of the global agenda in the wake of the important IPCC reports and Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize. Hear about how your business is going to be affected in 2008 - and beyond?

  • The Climate Change Bill: What will it mean for businesses operating in the UK?
  • European and international legislation: what's happening now and is about to happen in the major business sectors
  • Post Kyoto regulations: What's anticipated - and how to prepare your business
  • Nuclear power: Is it responsible to source nuclear energy for your business to cut carbon
  • Climate Change Capital , Kate Hampton , Head of Policy
  • Carbon Trust, James Wilde, Director of Insights
  • Co-operative Group, Kirstie Hawkins, Environment Advisor
  • Lehman Brothers, Charlotte Grezo, Global Head of Sustainability
  • British Energy, Chris Anastai, Senior Environmental Advisor

11:00am - 11:30am Networking Coffee Break

11:30am - 12:45pm Session 2

Carbon Offsets: Will carbon offsetting survive the current backlash?

Businesses are racing to use offsets. But their use is increasingly controversial

  • The backlash: An assessment of its impacts on corporate offset sourcing
  • Hear the golden rules of selecting reliable - and effective - offset methods that are ideal for your particular business
  • Find out about the essential questions you must ask
  • Discover how to ensure your offset strategies position your business as an environmental leader
  • Learn how to effectively incorporate offsets into your mitigation strategy
  • The Climate Group, Josh Harris, Carbon Finance Programme Manager
  • Gold Standard, Jasmine Hyman, Marketing Director

12:45pm - 14:30pm Networking Lunch

14:30pm - 15:30pm Session 3

Which of these sessions should you attend?

FMCG & climate change: Learn from the global leaders

In September 2007 the Carbon Disclosure Project recognised Cadbury Schweppes as global best-in-class in response to climate change - for the 4th year in succession. How can you apply the company's experiences to your own business strategies?

  • How to measure the ecological impact of your products - everything from the sourcing of raw materials through to disposal
  • Understand where your greatest energy impacts are - and how to reduce them
  • From sustainable agriculture to the impact of distribution: What are the prime issues and what's the most successful way to tackle them
  • Communicating your progress to consumers: Which tools and techniques work best?
  • Cadbury Schweppes, David Croft, Conformance & Sustainability Director
  • ASDA, Paul Kelly, Corporate Affairs Director
  • Greenstone Carbon Management, Belinda Howell, CEO

How to measure your carbon footprint: Essential do's and don'ts

Measuring your carbon emissions is no longer optional. But what -and how - should you measure? And where are the limits?

  • Why carbon measurement has become mandatory
  • Your supply chain carbon footprint: How do you decide what's in your supply chain? And what's not?
  • Proven communication techniques to get your climate message across to suppliers - and help them find economically viable ways to address the issue
  • Identify the measurement methodology that's most appropriate for your business
  • IBM, Michael Stephenson, Associate Partner, Strategy & Change, UK Climate Change Programme
  • The British Retail Consortium, Jane Milne, Director of Business Environment

Climate change: Strategies for successful risk management

Insurance companies are now in the process of deciding how flooding claims will impact on premiums. And every business must face up to numerous risks from the effects of climate change. How can you prepare - and protect your company from what lies ahead?

  • Understand the implications of various climate change scenarios for your company
  • Find out how climate change might affect the map of investment
  • Learn about the key elements of the Climate Change Adaptation Toolkit - and how to use it to your advantage
  • ABN AMRO, Carsten Schirmeisen, Head of Sustainable Risk Advisory
  • Royal & Sun Alliance, Dr. Paul Pritchard, Corporate Responsibility Manager
  • AXA Insurance, Truska Angel, Head of Climate Change

15:30pm - 16:00pm Networking Coffee Break

16:00pm - 17:00pm Session 4

Which of these sessions most closely matches your personal agenda?

Climate change reporting: Why it's important. And how to do it right

Investors are demanding greater rigour in the disclosure of carbon emissions and climate change risks. They also want consistency and transparency. And it's not just about investor disclosure - it's also about enhancing your reputation and improving your competitive edge.

A recent report from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and the FTSE Group reveals that while 89% of companies provide some carbon data, NONE are reporting evenly across all the key climate change issues - presenting a great opportunity for you to establish a leadership position

  • Find out why reporting consistently and comprehensively on your footprint and mitigation efforts is so vital
  • Hear what potential reporting standards are on the horizon
  • What kind of message are you currently sending to your consumers, investors and other stakeholders?
  • Make sure you are aware what your investors want to know about your response to climate change - and learn how to tell them
  • Should disclosure be regulated or continue to be voluntary?
  • Carbon Disclosure Project, Paul Simpson, Chief Operating Officer

Carbon markets: How will your business be affected?

With the Carbon Reduction Commitment soon to become a mandatory reality, wider carbon trading is just around the corner. Find out about the most important global carbon market schemes - and learn how to make carbon trading an integral element of your climate strategy

  • Evaluate voluntary and mandatory markets around the world
  • Can carbon trading deliver cost-effective carbon emissions reduction?
  • Carbon trading as a business opportunity: What are the potential implications for your bottom line?
  • Understand the full range of available options and pick the ones that are most beneficial for your business
  • Learn how to make money while also reducing emissions
  • European Climate Exchange, Peter Koster, Chairman
  • DEFRA, Philip Douglas, Head of CRC Department

Heavy industry's response to climate change

Heavy industries account for a large proportion of CO2 emissions. At this session CEMEX, the company that represents one of the most energyintensive sectors, will uncover the biggest challenges and strategies in place to tackle them. Hear about

  • The major challenges the company is facing across its global operations
  • How CEMEX measures its direct and indirect emissions
  • The startegies in place at CEMEX to improve energy efficiency and reduce the company's impact on the environment
  • CEMEX, Martin Casey, Director of Public Affairs & Corporate Responsibility - EMEA

17:00pm onwards Networking Reception

13 February, Day Two

9.15am - 9.30am Keynote speech

What do your customers really think about climate change?

The attitude of your consumers to climate change is constantly changing. Which environmental issues are important to them, how they perceive your climate change message and how can you use this knowledge to drive your sales and improve your company's reputation?

  • Find out about important recent research into consumer perception of climate change - and how consumer attitudes are evolving
  • Review the key challenges on engaging customers on climate change issues
  • Examine best practice examples that rise above the challenges
  • The National Consumer Council , Lord Larry Whitty, Chair

9:30am - 11:00pm Session 1

Engaging your consumers on climate change: Why is simply getting the message across not good enough?

It's already happened with charity giving - and climate change fatigue and scepticism could be just around the corner. So how can you ensure your messages will stand out from the rest, and actually change consumer behaviour? Come and learn from the most trusted names in climate change communications:

  • How difficult is it to actually change your customers' purchasing habits and behaviour - and what kind of strategies / communications / ideas are most motivating?
  • Developing a powerful communications strategy to win the hearts and minds of even your most skeptical consumers - and encourages people to make a genuine commitment
  • What works? What must be avoided at all costs? How can you incorporate consumer feedback into subsequent climate change campaigns?
  • Procter and Gamble, Andrew Fisk, Fabric Care External Relations
  • Tesco, Ellen Gladders, Manager for the Community and the Environment
  • British Gas New Energy, Holly Troy, Head of Residential Markets
  • The Climate Group, David Hall, International Campaign, Director of Together

11:00am - 11:30am Networking Coffee Break

11:30am - 13:00pm Session 2

Labelling: Using it to validate your climate message and engage your consumers in climate change

Fair trade and organic food sales are booming. Can a carbon label add just as much - or even more - value to your product?

  • Understand why environmental labelling is an important strategy for leveraging consumer power in moving to a low-carbon economy
  • Find out which messages work best
  • Make sure you know what the implications for your bottom line and reputation are
  • Learn about the experiences of businesses that are already using carbon labels
  • Timberland, Anabel Drese, European Director CSR

  • PepsiCo, Andrew Smith, Head of Corporate Responsibility

  • The Carbon Trust, Euan Murray, Carbon Footprinting General Manager

13:00pm - 14:30pm Networking Lunch

14:30pm - 15:30pm Session 3

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Climate change as a business opportunity: Case study from Standard Chartered Bank

Standard Chartered has made an unprecedented commitment to deliver renewable and clean energy finance totally £5 billion to the developing world over the next five years. Find out why there is a clear business case underpinning the Bank's own business strategy.

  • How to approach climate change as a necessity that generates competitive advantage - both internally and externally
  • Make sure your approach to climate change communications differentiates your products - and enhances your company's public image
  • Discover how climate-neutral products can spearhead a growth platform for your business
  • Learn how to ensure that being an industry leader generates extra revenue for your company rather than proving to be an expensive innovation
  • Standard Chartered Bank, James Stacey, Head of Sustainable Business
  • Continental Clothing Company, Philip Charles Gamett, Director

Partnerships with NGOs: Strenghten your response to climate change and enhance your reputation

  • Choosing the right partner: NGO prioritisation and mapping
  • Do's and don'ts of negotiating with an NGO
  • Make sure your partnerships create value, not problems
  • Learn how to achieve a fair partnership that meets agreed objectives
  • WWF UK, Dax Lovegrove, Head of Business & Industry Relations
  • Marks & Spencer, Mike Barry, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility

Green energy - what's best for your company: On-site development or off-site REC purchase?

Switching from a fossil fuel-based energy to renewable sources helps you achieve absolute emissions savings, as opposed to just savings relative to your carbon output. But it also costs more.

Is it money well spent? Plus the facts you need to make green energy sourcing a valuable contribution to your mitigation strategy.

  • Discover the options being considered - and used - by leading companies
  • What are the main challenges when it comes to sourcing green energy and how can you overcome them?
  • How to use green energy to achieve your climate goals
  • BT, Richard Tarboton, Head of Energy & Carbon
  • Econcern, Kees van der Leun, Member of the Board
15:30pm - 16:00pm Networking Coffee Break

16:00pm - 17:00pm Session 4

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Climate change and internal communications: How to achieve board buy-in and engage your employees in climate change.

The success of all your climate change strategies depends on whether you manage to engage top management and employees. What's the easiest way to stimulate internal engagement?

  • Find out how to win advocates in top management
  • Understand what management structure works best and why
  • How to ensure you're sending a clear message to employees
  • Simple yet extraordinarily effective techniques that secure the staff engagement that's vital to success
  • Bovis Lend Lease, Samuel Hall, Senior Sustainability Manager

Greenwash: How to avoid it

Why should consumers and investors believe what you say about your environmental impact? And what assures them on climate change?

  • Understand how to effectively communicate your climate-friendly journey - and progress - to customers
  • Make sure your claims that a product or service is climate-friendly are trustworthy - and true
  • How to use old and new media to drive home your message
  • Learn how to ensure your communication campaigns are not dismissed as mere greenwash
  • Forum for the Future, Dr Sally Uren, Director Business Programme

Maximum energy efficiency: How can you achieve it?

  • Understand how much energy your company can realistically hope to save
  • How to calculate your potential financial savings
  • Find out what energy saving technologies suit your company best
  • Process and product innovation: What's in it for you?
  • Small steps: The most practical ways to cut energy consumption tomorrow
  • Vodafone, Heinz Ruterbusch, Global Energy Management Team

Conference Ends