Drive Sustainability at Scale

• 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

In this episode, we sit down with Maia Reed, Global Climate Data Lead at Mars Petcare, to explore how one of the world's largest companies is tackling carbon reduction within agriculture supply chains.

What you’ll learn:

• Setting Up Carbon Reduction Projects: Insights into leveraging supplier relationships to overcome implementation challenges.
• Bridging Data Gaps: Tackling data scarcity with tailored management approaches and grassroots solutions.
• Balancing Compliance vs. Impact: Navigating the trade-offs between inventory and intervention strategies.
• Empowering Farmers: Using carbon insights to improve livelihoods and inform sustainable sourcing.
• Innovation in Action: Embedding sustainability into R&D, with a focus on alternative proteins.