Date and Time
Tuesday October 4, 2016
9:00 am-2:30 pm
BST
Location
London
Topics
#Climate Change
The Paris Agreement, adopted in December 2015, is a decisive, defining, and catalytic instrument for building a thriving clean economy, and the We Mean Business coalition has provided a successful platform—the “Take Action” commitments—for companies and investors to contribute to this shift. To date, more than 1,000 commitments have been made on this platform by 431 companies representing more than US$8.1 trillion in revenue, and by 183 investors with more than US$20.7 trillion in assets under management.
BSR and CDP—as two of the seven co-founding members of We Mean Business—will hold a half day of workshops on three of the “Take Action” commitments: “Adopt a Science-Based Emissions Reduction Target,” “Remove commodity-driven deforestation from all supply chains by 2020,” and “Commit to 100 Percent Renewable Power." Through these three sessions, participants will hear from companies who have implemented the commitments and from technical experts who will present them in detail.
Whether your company has already made a commitment or is considering doing so, this event will help you understand:
- The drivers of and barriers to implementation
- The benefits of making these commitments—from concrete results on climate to recognition by peers and civil society
- The gold standard in corporate climate action for your industry
Speakers
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Farid Baddache,
Managing Director, BSR
With 20 years’ experience in the sustainable business field, Farid leads engagements with companies across industries and BSR consulting services, and has had direct experience with more than 100 projects.
As part of BSR’s global management team, Farid helps oversee organizational consulting and membership strategy and operations.
Prior to joining BSR, Farid was a CSR strategy and management consultant and project manager in the technology, manufacturing, and extractives industries. He is the author of Les 100 fiches de la RSE, Le Développement Durable tout Simplement, Prévenir les Risques, Agir en Organisation Responsable, Entreprises et ONG Face au Développement Durable, L'Innovation par la Coopération, and he won a business book award in 2006. He speaks French, English, Spanish, German, and Portuguese.
Farid holds an M.B.A. from the ESSEC Business School in Paris, an M.B.A. from the National University of Singapore in Clean Technology, and a Ph.D in Organizational Sociology from EHESS, the Paris School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences.
- Mike Barry, Director of Plan A, Marks and Spencer
- Dorothee Bernier, Sustainable Development Manager, Thalys
- Erin Callahan, Manager Global Initiatives, CDP
- Philippe Deconinck, CSR Manager Environment and Supply Chain, Proximus
- Andrew Griffiths, Sustainability Manager, Nestlé
- Peter Hughes, Director of Sustainability, Pearson
- Katie McCoy, Head of Forests Program, CDP
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Emilie Prattico, Former Manager, BSR
Emilie leads BSR’s engagements on climate change for the EMEA region, including partnerships with grant funders, public-sector bodies, and members in key industries.
Her expertise informs BSR’s climate strategy by including short-lived climate pollutants as a powerful lever for curbing emissions with benefits on health, development, and air quality. She leads research seeking solutions within the finance sector to deepen corporate investment in climate action.
Previously, Emilie worked as a consultant with local governments in California on climate-action strategies and private-sector stakeholder engagement on climate policy planning. She has worked with the transportation, manufacturing, and agriculture sectors on supply chain sustainability and climate impacts. Emilie teaches as a university lecturer in philosophy and sociology. She speaks French, English, German, and Italian.
Emilie holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Northwestern University, an M.S. in Management and Sustainability from HEC (Paris), and a B.A. in Philosophy and Theology from the University of Oxford.
- Nigel Topping, CEO, We Mean Business
- Wesley White, Director of Environmental Sustainability, AstraZeneca
- Dr. Susie Wood, Senior Manager Science Based Targets, CDP
