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Full Programme

Day 1

9.00 - 9.10Chairman´s Welcome

9.10 - 10.40The business case for an effective environmental strategy: Why carbon is not enough

It´ becoming apparent that the focus of the climate change debate has broadened. Companies are now also working out strategies that encourage economic growth and improve competitiveness. So what does the future of a carbon-constrained economy hold for European companies? This session will also look at how the EU landscape is set to compare with businesses operating in countries with less restrictive environmental rules. Our panel of senior speakers will discuss the following:

  • European and international environmental legislation trends: what&acut anticipated-and how to prepare your business
  • What will the environmental strategies of large companies look like in 5 and 10 years from now?
  • Learn how to maximise your brand value while staying on top of new environmental laws
  • CEMEX, Francisco Javier Merle Pons, Director of Environmental co-ordination for EMEA
  • Siemens, Wolfgang Bloch, Vice President of Corporate Environmental Affairs
  • Akzo Nobel, Andre Veneman, Director of Sustainability

10.40 - 11.10Coffee Break

11.10 - 12.10Environmental risk management: What´s in it for you?

According to a recent Economist Intelligence Unit survey, the big challenges in environmental risk management revolve around dealing with partners and the supply chain. If your supplier gets it wrong, your company must deal with the consequences-including reputational damage, or even financial penalties. Equally, risk management can create opportunities too. Attend this session to:

  • Understand the modern implications of failing to manage your environmental risks
  • Explore what you should focus on when you assess and manage environmental risks-learn from examples of businesses that have got it right… and wrong!
  • Learn essential questions you must ask when evaluating potential suppliers
  • Learn about how you can help clients and suppliers reduce their environmental impact, fast!
  • Progress from risk management to opportunity-driven strategies: how to make environmental policy decisions work to your advantage
  • Goldman Sachs, Nushin Kormi, Associate, Environmental Markets Group
  • Volvo, Niklas Gustavsson, Vice President, Public Affairs & Environmental Affairs

12.10 - 1.40Lunch Break

1.40 - 2.40GREEN PROCUREMENT

How to engage suppliers in your green agenda

Accepting responsibility for the actions of your suppliers is no longer a choice; most stakeholders see it as a requirement. Yet seeking influence in businesses you don´t own is never straightforward. This session answers three key questions:

  • How much help and guidance should you offer your suppliers?
  • How can you engage your suppliers-even when you´re not the largest buyer?
  • What are the most effective ways to encourage first and second tier suppliers to go green and improve corporate environmental compliance?
  • Philips, Jan Roodenburg, Senior Vice President of Supplier Development and Sustainability
  • Johnson & Johnson, Jack De Bokx, Senior Director Environment, Health & Safety, EMEA

1.40 - 2.40ENERGY

Case study on energy efficiency: How to achieve it and gain big bottom line benefits

According to a new survey by the Economist, 52% of leading business executives say energy efficiency is one of their top sustainability priorities. This revealing case study will show you how Bombardier Transportation and Electrolux are both working on implementing energy efficiency into their production process, produceing energy-efficient products at a price customers are willing to pay:

  • What was the starting point - and how were key areas identified?
  • Barriers and drivers to implementing energy efficiency programmes
  • How much has the company gained financially as a direct result of its energy efficiency initiatives?
  • What about energy efficiency legislative requirements: what is a must and when does it pay to go beyond basic compliance?
  • Bombardier Transportation, Michael Schemmer, Senior Environment, Health & Safety Director
  • Electrolux, Onur Durmus, Project Manager Environmental and European Affairs

2.40 - 3.10Coffee Break

3.10 - 4.10GREEN PROCUREMENT

Going beyond carbon: Addressing environmental footprint in your supply chain

When companies set out to green their supply chains, they tend to concentrate on the carbon footprint issue. It's essential to widen the focus to your overall environmental footprint if you are serious about saving significant sums of corporate cash.

  • Are chemicals corroding your supply chain? Explore and understand issues such as toxic chemicals and insecticides and how they affect your business
  • Is ensuring compliance throughout your supply chain overwhelming-and if so, how can you make it easier?
  • Explore strategies and approaches for compliance with regulations such as RoHS, REACH and WEEE
  • Novozymes, Claus Stig Pedersen, Head of Sustainable Development
  • Epson, Denis Doyle, Operations Director

3.10 - 4.10COMMUNICATION

Effective communication strategies: secure customer loyalty and investor support

A recent survey from The Climate Group reveals 60% of consumers admire companies that are tackling environmental issues. How can you demonstrate you are indeed one of those companies?

  • How to develop a communication strategy that encourages customers to make a genuine commitment
  • Expert advice on how to pinpoint customer expectations-and meet them

A new survey from Allianz Global Investors reports that 84% of investors believe that a company´s profitability will be increasingly linked to its ability to address environmental issues.

  • How can you translate environmental benefits, such as carbon reduction, into monetary terms?
  • Investor disclosure: How much should you reveal?
  • Bovis Lend Lease, Emma Wyatt, Communications Manager
  • Goldman Sachs, Nushin Kormi, Associate, Environmental Markets Group

4.10 - 5.10GREEN PROCUREMENT

Tackling your carbon footprint in the supply chain

The EU is demanding a 20% cut on carbon emissions by 2020. This session shows you how you can also cut out meaningless phrases such as: To the best of our endeavours from your CR reports and replace them with firm commitments: We will reduce our carbon emissions by X% by 2009”.

  • Hear how reducing the carbon footprint in your supply chain is no longer about creating a competitive edge-but is rapidly becoming a necessity
  • The investor perspective: why supplier carbon matters so much
  • How to carry out a carbon audit and use the findings to pinpoint inefficiencies
  • Learn how to effectively analyse-and make use of-different information sources

 

  • Deutsche Post, Dr Winfried Haeser, Director of Environmental Strategy and Policy

4.10 - 5.10COMMUNICATION

Persuading managers and leaders to champion your environmental cause internally

Your employees are currently the most important stakeholder group you have, according to a recent McKinsey survey of CEOs. So it´s vital to ensure your employees are genuinely committed to reaching your environmental targets-otherwise your strategies are doomed to failure. Join this session to find out how to:

  • Develop simple yet effective techniques to make sure that your employees are on board
  • Which communication methods work best?
  • Turn workforce buy-in into activity-actions-and profit
  • How to channel your environmental strategies throughout the company starting with the board
  • Inbev, Jean Lepine, Director of Global Corporate Social Responsibility

Day 2

9.00 - 9.10Chairman´s Welcome

9.10 - 10.40Carbon markets: Time to take another look at carbon trading

The World Bank´s latest “State and trends of the carbon market” report, published in May 2008, shows that the global carbon market has more than doubled in value in 2007. The world´s largest cap-and-trade scheme, the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, is worth a fast growing €32 billion. Cap and Trade systems are now increasingly seen as playing an important role in effective emission mitigation policy. They are seen as the least complicated way of reducing greenhouse gas outputs and have been successful in creating value. Find out about how your business should:

  • Handle the impact of new rules: hear a forecast of how the EU ETS will grow and spread-and how you should prepare
  • Benchmark your company against the best carbon management schemes
  • Carbon trading as a business opportunity: what are the potential implications for your bottom line?
  • Get the facts from business peers who have worked with UN´s Clean Development Mechanism: is it delivering
  • National Grid, Steve Wallace, Global Head of Environment
  • European Climate Exchange, Patrick Birley, Chief Executive Officer
  • WWF, World Wide Fund for Nature , Sanjeev Kumar, EU ETS Co-ordinator, European Policy

10.40 - 11.10Coffee Break

11.10 - 12.10Is water scarcity a greater threat to your business than energy shortages?

Until recently, water has been so cheap, it has been ‘off radar’ for many companies. But the risk associated with increasing water scarcity is growing. This is now capturing businesses´ attention, particularly where over-extraction and water contamination scandals have led to operational losses, fines, and reputational damage. One difficulty with water is that you can´t simply ‘offset’ it, as some say they can with carbon. However, water recycling can become part of your energy and carbon reduction goals:

  • What are the best ways to measure your operational water footprint?
  • How can you improve your corporate water efficiency?
  • What types of water efficiency targets are leading businesses setting for their global operations-and how do they meet them?
  • Hear about best practice examples on conducting water dialogues with stakeholders
  • Nestle, Brett Carroll, Safety, Health & Environment Manager
  • MARS, Adrian Greet, Global Sustainability Programme Manager

12.10 - 1.40Lunch Break

1.40 - 2.20ENERGY

Renewable energy: A short cut to reduce your carbon footprint?

The EU´s current target is to produce 20% of energy from renewable sources by 2020. Meanwhile, Datamonitor says 28% of the largest UK companies say they will make “some” use of green energy this year-up 7% from last time the question was asked.

  • The role of nuclear power in mitigating environmental challenges: is it really the way forward?
  • Is carbon being “double counted” when purchasing green energy?
  • How to be a leader and take advantage of different subsidies available: reaping financial gains by complying with legislation
  • Useful ideas for energy purchase: assessing the electricity profile and carbon output of your provider
  • Centrica, José Davila, Head of Strategy for British Gas Energy

2.20 - 3.00GREEN PROCUREMENT

Life cycle assessment: How to close the loop

The German Environment Agency claims 80% of a product´s environmental impacts are determined during the design phase. Now sustainability leaders are taking this one step further. Leading companies are transforming industries by creating products for cradle-to-cradle cycles, where recycled materials from old products are perpetually used as raw materials in new products. Attend this session to:

  • Discover how you can design your products with the supply chain and the environment in mind
  • Hear best practice examples of companies whose latest product design implements this idea and how they dramatically reduced their overall environmental impact as a result
  • Learn Simple steps you can take to achieve cost reduction, optimum efficiency and full productivity
  • Henkel, Roland Schroeder, Director of Sustainability

3.00 - 3.30Coffee Break

3.30 - 4.10ENERGY

Innovative technology solutions that reduce your emissions-and dependency on fossil fuels

Changes in the way business uses technology could reduce man-made global emissions by 15% p.a. by 2020. This would deliver energy efficiency savings of over €500 billion, according to a new report by The Climate Group and the Global e-Sustainability Initiative. In this session you´ll investigate the most popular and effective ways you can lower your emissions:

  • Hear about new technology that is successfully reducing energy consumption-and saving money
  • Is fuel switching from coal to more expensive-but less polluting-natural gas worthwhile? What are the financial risks?
  • Carbon cutting technologies: hear about smart meters and other ICT solutions that will reduce costs
  • General Motors, Nicholas Hodac, European Union Affairs Manager

4.10 - 4.50ENERGY

Energy Management: The winning formula

This year´s record high price of oil means energy management has become a business-critical issue. A strategic approach to energy management has never been more important. In this session you will:

  • Learn a structured energy management approach will provide you with a clear roadmap to achieving financial savings
  • Find out about forthcoming energy-related legislations and how your company can best prepare
  • Practical information on what energy-reduction leaders have done-and the cost savings they´ve achieved
  • The best ways to review and evaluate your energy strategy performance-and guarantee continuous improvement
  • Mitsubishi, Martin Fahey, Green Gateway Manager