Sustainable Supply Chain Conference: Supplier Social and Environmental Performance

On October 25 and 26, there will be a practical conference on how to drive supplier social & environmental performance and deliver profitable efficiency through supplier buy-in and engagement. This conference will address ways of engaging suppliers on your Social, Environmental, and other Sustainability priorities. These events have a proven track record, with 900+ executives attending previous supply chain conferences.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION:

Achieve better supplier engagement through improved internal alignment with cross-department and function teams

Enhance procurement metrics by mapping sustainability criteria against existing purchasing priorities

Galvanize how supply chain teams think about where to source and ways to incentivize suppliers

Overcome challenges associated with identifying suitable KPIs for supplier questionnaires and scorecards

Expert tips on securing supplier buy-in even when you are not their biggest customer

Powerful techniques to increase transparency and improve traceability of sourcing

SESSIONS:

Ensure your suppliers co-operate and commit – instead of just paying lip service
At this top-level event, leading practitioners will take you step-by-step from Preparation to Implementation. Hear about where to focus your efforts, what reward structure to put in place, how to develop better scorecards and questionnaires, and much more.

Equip your procurement team with crucial business tools and processes
Procurement teams used to base their decisions primarily on price, quality and time. So what about the practical and operational challenges that emerge when social and environmental priorities are factored in? The Conference will spell out how to integrate sustainability to meet overall purchasing targets, what incentives to put in place and much more besides.

For an in-depth insight about our workshops, plenary sessions and discussion have a look at the agenda.

SPEAKERS

Conference speakers have sustainability and procurement backgrounds that match the practical emphasis of the event. This is your chance to pick the brains of senior, hands-on executives from corporate sustainability leaders including The Walt Disney Company, Bombardier Aerospace, Alcatel-Lucent, Kraft Foods, Pacific Gas & Electricity, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, MeadWestvaco, Pepsico, IBM, Office Depot, Kimberly-Clark and others..

To help you benchmark from leading US and global companies, we have also recruited one of the most respected European leader in the field: Marks & Spencer. For this one session only, we will stage a live video presentation where their company’s Head of Sustainable Business will share his wisdom and experience. Extra Q&A time has been scheduled at the end of this session.

To register click here or get more information on the Conference Agenda, rates and lodging, email cora.ng@ethicalcorp.com or call 1 800 814 3459 today.

© 2011, Richard Matthews. All rights reserved.

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Business Metrics at the 2011 Sustainable Brands Event

Explore the future of sustainable business metrics and measurement. This SB Issues in Focus one day event, in partnership with The Wharton School, looks at the retooling of key business metrics to optimize business for sustainable success in the 21st Century. Join other financial and non-financial managers seeking knowledge in the progression of work that measures and values both positive and negative environmental and social impacts of business activity. Industry leaders will collaborate on issues such as valuing eco-system services, moving environmental impact onto the balance sheet, and putting goals in context. October 24, 2011 in Philadelphia, PA.

One of the most compelling challenges of our time involves reassessing paths to value creation and sustainable business success. Underpinning the successful transformation of business is a need to identify a new set of metrics by which value is measured. By doing so we can put business in a better position to set strategy and goals that dependably support both near term success and long term continuity.

Produced by Sustainable Life Media in partnership with The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania's IGEL (Initiative for Global Environment Leadership), this 1 day SB: Issues in Focus Conference will explore the forward edge of thinking and progression of work taking place on measurement and valuation of both positive and negative environmental and social impacts of business activity. Various key initiatives will be presented and time will be devoted for interactive and thought provoking discussion throughout the day.

Questions that will be addressed include:

• How can your environmental and social impact activities be set in the context of what would constitute true sustainability of your activities?
• What kind of shareholder value is, or might be created from your sustainability efforts?
• What kinds of metrics or scorecards are taking shape to help you measure the various aspects of your environmental impact (organization, product, supply chain, whole industry, etc.)
• Are you properly accounting for all your assets, or are there some investments that might be moved from expense to asset class on the balance sheet?

Confirmed and considered speakers include:

Valuing Eco-System Services: Inside the Dow/Nature Conservancy Partnership. Neil Hawkins, VP of Sustainability and EH&S at Dow Chemical Company and Glenn Prickett, Chief External Affairs Officer, The Nature Conservancy

Moving Environmental Impact onto the Balance Sheet: Another Take Puma, with PriceWaterhouseCoopers

Context-Based Metrics: Taking Sustainability Literally. Mark McElroy, PhD, Executive Director, Center for Sustainable Organizations and leading researcher in context based metrics

Human Value Added: People as an Asset on the Balance Sheet. Wharton 1989 Alum Paul Herman, investment advisor and author, The HIP (Human Impact & Profit) Investor in conversation with Pioneer InfoSys about "human resource valuation"

Poverty Footprinting: Valuing Business Contribution to Development. Kyle Cahill, Oxfam and brand partner

Sustainability, Reputation and ROI – Modeling the Business Value of Sustainability Driven Reputation Enhancements. Pamela Cohen, PhD, University of Chicago and others

Modeling Shared Value of Industry Collaboration. John O'Connor, VP Sustainability Research, Gaia Metrics (formerly, World Bank, IMF)

Integrating Sustainability and Financial Analysis into Investor Relations. Dave Stangis, VP Corporate Social Responsibility, Campbell Soup Company

Beyond GDP: The Happiness Index. Jules Peck, The New Economic Foundation, UK

To register or to learn more about the innovative ways businesses are re-defining value and measuring their impact click here. When registering get a 20% discount by using the code: "3pnwsbm"

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Sustainabilitylive! 2011

Sustainabilitylive! 2011 was held between May 24th and 26th in Birmingham, Alabama. Sustainabilitylive! is the home of five leading environment exhibitions, including BEX, ET, IWEX, NEMEX and SB - The Event.

These exhibitions included hundreds of exhibitors, as well as seminars, conferences and interactive features. The show was well attended and the seminars were full to capacity.

Sustainabiltylive has been of great benefit to attendees and exhibitors. Sarah Boulton of Nomenca Ltd said, "As our first time exhibiting we have been amazed at how busy our stand has been with a fantastic range of opportunities, leads and contacts being made in both our core business and new clients."

For more information click here.

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Webinar on the Environmental Challenges Faced by Lenders

On Tuesday, May 31, 2011 between 1:00 and 2:00 EST a free webinar will feature Dianne Crocker, a principal analyst with EDR's market research group. She is responsible for providing EDR’s clients with strategic data and analysis on environmental due diligence trends.

Crocker gives presentations about environmental risk at industry conferences and client workshops across the country. She is a frequent contributor to leading commercial real estate, lending and environmental magazines, and her column, "Inside the Industry," appears monthly in EM, the magazine of the Air & Waste Management Association.

The lending industry is undergoing a period of dramatic change. While foreclosures, refinancing, and workouts are still the norm, originations are slowly beginning to ramp up. Under intense pressure to tighten risk management practices, lenders are rethinking how they conduct environmental due diligence.In this webinar EDR will explore this new landscape with industry expert Dianne Crocker. Sharing results from her team’s latest Benchmarking Survey of Financial Institutions, Dianne will explain what lenders are looking for, and how environmental professionals can earn new lender business.

Participants will learn:
1) Why today’s lenders are looking to tighten environmental due diligence
2) What they’re doing—or not doing—on foreclosures, refinancing, and workouts
3) Challenges lenders face adhering to the U.S. SBA’s environmental guideline4) Characteristics lenders value most in their consultants

This event is intended for environmental consultants who conduct Phase I environmental site assessments for lenders. To register for the event click here.

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Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit

The Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit, entitled Innovate, Generate, Integrate, is an invitation-only event for senior executives, policy-makers and investors. The goal is to identify and address key issues facing the clean energy sector, and to help decision-makers identify opportunities that will enable them to succeed. The Summit will be held on April 4-7, 2011 at the Pierre in New York City.

Topics discussed at the conference are structured around the three key challenges of the clean energy industry:

1. Technology development
2. Building a clean energy infrastructure
3. Integrating into the world’s energy system

The list of confirmed speakers include:

Dan Arvizu, Director of the National Renewable Energy Lab·

Yehudit "Dita" Bronicki, CEO/Managing Director, Ormat·

Margaret Catley-Carlson, Chair of the Global Water Partnership·

Charles "Chad" O. Holliday, Jr., Chairman, Bank of America·

Michael G. Morris, Chairman/CEO, American Electric Power·

Rick Needham, Director Green Business Opportunities, Google·

Jonathan Silver, Executive Director, Loan Programs Office, US Dept. of Energy·

Marcelo Tokman, Head of Gov Relations, Vestas Latam & Former Minister of Energy, Chile

To see the full agenda click here.

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Green Business Symposium

A symposium titled, “Greening the Pathway to Recovery,” will highlight the key issues of sustainability in the legal and business sectors. It will occur on March 31 and April 1, 2011, at the University of Oregon’s White Stag Building in Portland, Oregon.

This event is produced by the Green Business Initiative Student Association, a joint venture of students from the University of Oregon School of Law and the Lundquist College of Business.

The symposium, presented in partnership with Pacific Continental Bank, brings together regional and national business leaders, policymakers, academics, and legal practitioners to engage in discussions on what is necessary to realize the goal of achieving sustainability in this recovering economy. The two-day event will explore the policies and practices necessary to unlock the full potential that green business represents.

The first day of the event will feature a guest speaker between 5:30 and 6:30 p.m., which will be followed by a reception. On the second day a keynote presentation and four open-dialogue panels, will begin at 8:30 a.m. and continue until 4 p.m. followed by a reception for symposium participants.

This year’s keynote speaker is Ralph Cavanagh, co-director of the Natural Resource Defense Council’s energy program and a board member of the Northwest Energy Coalition, the Bonneville Environmental Foundation, and the Renewable Northwest Project.

For more information about the 2011 symposium click here or contact Kimberly Pray Assistant Director, Green Business Initiative, University of Oregon School of Law, 503-412-3725 or prayk@uoregon.edu.

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