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How to measure your carbon footprint - and avoid coming up with the wrong size

The last year has seen an unprecedented rise in government, consumer and business interest in carbon. It's already a given that measuring your carbon emissions is no longer optional. But what do you measure? Howdo you measure emissions? And where are the limits? The fact is, it's hard to be clear about the hows and the whats...

Featuring case studies from McDonald's and Philips.

• How to implement the right carbon-measurement methodology
• Is carbon measurement important?
• Assessing risk and dealing with consumer demands

• McDonald's, Keith Kenny, Senior Director, Quality Assurance (Europe)
• Philips, Theo Schoenmakers, Head of Sustainability (Consumer Electronics
• The Carbon Disclosure Project, Nigel Topping, Client Partner

Collaboration with your competitors: yes or no?

Companies are turning increasingly to their competitors to increase their own supply chain efficiency; collaboration with your business rivals offers advantages and savings otherwise unattainable. Initiatives like Sedex and those organised by Achilles demonstrate the appetite for companies to work together to improve the ethical performance of their supply chains. But is it really worthwhile?

• What opportunities are there for collaboration?
• Where is it shrewd to collaborate with your competitors?
• Where is collaboration best avoided?
• What about driving convergence of standards and auditing to reduce supplier fatigue?

• Sedex, Tara Norton, General Manager
• PepsiCo, John C Scott, Global Procurement Director, Responsible & Sustainable Sourcing
• Clifford Chance, Jaap Koster, Partner
• Achilles, Luis Olivie, Chief Operating Officer
• Motorola/GeSI, Michael Loch, Corporate Director, EHS Strategic Initiatives

Engaging your suppliers in your CR agenda

Reacting to consumer pressure

Complying with REACH

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Reducing carbon emissions throughout your supply chain - why you can no longer dodge the issue

Timberland has already committed to reducing the carbon emissions its production facilities by 20% by 2010. Alliance Boots has just joined an initiative headed by the UK Carbon Trust to measure and reduce carbon throughout its supply chain.

Reducing your own carbon emissions is a big enough challenge on its own, without taking responsibility for other companies in your supply chain. But unless you bite the bullet, you will never be able to claim to be truly carbon neutral - or even environmentally responsible.

• How can you motivate your suppliers to cut their carbon emissions?
• How do you help them?
• How can changes in your relationship lead to savings on carbon?

• Alliance Boots, Andrew Jenkins, Sustainable Development Manager, Products
• Marks & Spencer, Mike Barry, Head of Corporate Responsibility
• The Carbon Trust, Euan Murray, Carbon Footprinting General Manager

Complying with labour regulations and standards: Achieving best practice

One of the biggest issues in putting together an ethical supply chain is ensuring labour standards are met - or raised. It's a notoriously difficult proposition, especially in the developing world. In this session, the ILO, the foremost organisation for promoting worker rights and standards, teams up with Levi's to offer best practice examples for improving labour standards throughout your supply chain, answering important questions such as:

• What are the risks for businesses that fail to take labour standards seriously?
• How do you best monitor labour standards further down your supply chain?
• What are the latest regulations, and how can you best comply with them?
• How do you deal with corruption and bribery in your developing world supply chain?

• International Labour Organization, Bill Brett, UK Director
• SGS, Effie Marinos, CSR Solutions Manager, EAME

Collaborating with industry

Measuring your carbon footprint

Working with NGOs

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Auditing: A tool, not a solution

Auditing is often the first step in a comprehensive effort to build a responsible supply chain. But on its own, it's not enough. More importantly, even this first small step needs considerable thought before being taken. Does auditing give value for money? Or are we in danger of creating a new - and not necessarily helpful - auditing industry?

• Who and what should you audit?
• Who should do the auditing? What are the relative benefits and risks of in-house and external auditors?
• What should you do with your audit results?
• What's the best way to educate your auditors and engage with NGOs for auditing?

• Gap, Burak Cakmak, Senior Manager, CR
• Fair Wear Foundation, Frans Papma, Director
• Levi's, Manuel Baigorri, Director, Codes of Conduct
• BSI Management Systems, Andrew Cole, Global Supply Chain Compliance

Working effectively with trade unions - still a business-critical issue

Labour standards may well not be the glamour issue in the supply chain - replaced instead by a fervent desire to Go Green - but this doesn't mean human rights have become any less important, or present any fewer problems. Working effectively with trade unions is imperative to better manage human rights issues and deal with problems.

• What do trade unions want to see from you?
• What are the advantages of close relationships with the relevant trade unions?
• What's at risk when your relationship with the unions is less than ideal?

• ITUC, Dwight Justice, Head of Multinational Enterprise Division
• FairTrade Foundation, Chris Davis,

  Head of Policy and Producer Relations

• ORSE, Delphine Poligne, Project Leader

Reducing carbon emissions in your supply chain

Complying with labour standards

Capacity building, auditing, and your company

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Complying with environmental regulations: Challenges and solutions

With the recent introduction of standards like WEEE, RoHS and REACH, the regulatory landscape has changed dramatically. In this session, you'll hear Case Studies from companies that deal directly with these new regulation. Learn how they have worked to comply, and the problems they have faced in doing so:

• Understand and act on regulations - what's best practice and how easily can you achieve it?
• What are the most challenging aspects of WEEE, RoHS and REACH to implement?
• What's on the horizon?
• How do we anticipate labour regulations will change?

• Samsung, Anthea Carter, European Sustainability Affairs Manager
• Office Depot, Marcel Jacobs, Environmental Strategy Manager

Working with NGOs and multi-stakeholder initiatives to improve your supply chain management

Multi-stakeholder initiatives are often held up as an effective way to manage in your supply chain. While NGOs are promoted as a fantastic way to add rigour and authenticity to your efforts. Both can undoubtedly be significant aids. But there are plenty of companies that have experienced nothing but headaches in exchange for their experiments in this area. In this session, you'll learn how to best work with MSIs and NGOs, and the risk and opportunities you'll face.:

• Hear from representatives of one of the biggest supply chain MSIs: Sedex.
• Get information on how this initiative works, as well as the innovative make-up of the MadeBy initiative. See how both could be applied to your company
• Find out from corporates already working with the pair, exactly how useful they are, the problems they've encountered, and the solutions they've created

• Innocent, Jessica Sansom, Head of Supply Chain
• Rainforest Alliance, Joke Aerts, European Network Co-ordinator
• Made By, Karin Reimerink, Supply Chain Manager
• Kuyichi, Bert Bruinink, Sourcing and Development Director
• Moderated by: World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Dr Brigitte Monsou Tantawy, Director, Sustainable Value Chain

Auditing: a tool, not a solution

Working with WEEE

Working with trade unions

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Renewable Energy Sourcing: Do the financials make sense?

Switching from a fossil fuel-based energy source to a renewable source instantly reduces greenhouse gas emissions, often by a significant amount. What's more, switching to renewable energy results in absolute emissions savings, not savings relative to output.

This enables you to increase production without necessarily increasing emissions - an advantage that has persuaded General Electric to purchase 8m kilowatt hours of renewable energy.

Nonetheless, renewable energy often costs more and requires large amounts of upfront investment. Is it worth it? And how should you best go about sourcing 'green power'?

• What are the costs involved in renewable energy sourcing?
• Is it better to generate your electricity on site or buy in?
• What are the risks you face?
• How much renewable energy should you be sourcing?

• British Telecom, Dr Glenn Edwards, Head of Procurement Policy

Engaging your suppliers in your CR agenda: Buy-in secrets revealed

Supplier engagement is probably the biggest challenge of all in ensuring your supply chain is ethically and responsibly managed.

Without supplier buy-in, you simply cannot make progress with your CR agenda. So what are the secrets of securing willing - and eager - co-operation?

• What's the most effective way to engage your second tier?
• How can you easily engage your suppliers when you're not the largest buyer?
• What about building internal awareness of how you can be a responsible customer?
• Consolidating CEPs for whole industries: Can it be done? How? And why would you want to?

• L'Oreal, Ariane Thomas, Supplier Management Executive
• Acquisti & Sostenibilita, Luca Guzzabocca , Director, (also GlaxoSmithKline, Director of Procurement (ECSN Europe )
• BHP Billiton, Calvin Fambisayi, Black Economic Empowerment Supply Unit Leader

Complying with environmental regulation

Working as an effective member of a multi-stakeholder initiative

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