Drive Sustainability at Scale

• Strategic governance models that actually work
• Proven tactics for building finance team credibility
• Hard-won lessons on protecting sustainability budgets
• Metrics that make the business case stick (even without immediate ROI)

• Sustainability & Capitalism: Can they coexist in today’s unapologetic capitalist system?
• Why Sustainability is Under Fire: Criticisms and confusion—what’s fuelling the backlash?
• The Business Case: Why sustainability is essential for business—resource scarcity, regulation, and more.
• Reframing for Leaders: How can sustainability leaders better align with business goals?
• Strategic Priorities: What should CSOs focus on over the next 5 years to ensure long-term success?

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• Sourcing: EU Deforestation Regulation
• Supplier Management: Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive
• Manufacturing: Ecodesign Regulation, Packaging & Packaging Waste Regulation, Anti-greenwashing Rules
• Reporting: EU Taxonomy, Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive

• What’s really happening with the Science-Based Targets Initiative
• What changes are needed to restore confidence in SBTs
• Alternatives to target-setting that are gaining traction
• Predictions for the future of SBTs in 2025. Companies that are most likely to pull out

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• Prioritise Your Supplier Strategically
• Optimise Data Collection Through PCFs
• Foster Genuine Collaboration

• Effective leadership: Tips for preparing to meet with your CEO on sustainability — what to consider and how to get buy-in.
• Decarbonise manufacturing: The optimal brand partnership approach to accelerate decarbonisation with manufacturers, without bogging them down with excessive audits.
• The new supply chain: How to rethink sourcing and supply chain design with smart, sustainability driven criteria, like renewable energy reliability.
• Monetise sustainability: Easy ways to turn decarbonisation into a business opportunity, enhancing brand equity and capturing market share.

• Best Practice #1: Leverage Data Integration Across Systems
• Best Practice #2: Assign Clear Data Ownership & Track Expertise
• Best Practice #3: Optimise Data Collection Process
• Best Practice #4: Harmonise Data Formats and Improve Data Quality

In our latest episode, Saif Hameed unpack’s two big bets and two red herrings that sustainability professionals need to know:‍

Big bets for 2025

• Emission factors will become commoditised: Expect new databases to emerge as EF providers overprice their offerings.
• Data security will drive siloes: As accuracy improves, stricter data sharing policies will fragment data access.

Red herrings to avoid

• Generative AI will fix everything: Don’t buy the hype.
• Real-time data is a must: Weekly or monthly data is far more practical.

• Trend #1: The 2025 regulatory wave demands more granular data
• Trend #2: The future of sharing emissions data
• Trend #3: Secondary data is making a comeback
• Inspirational case study