Drive Sustainability at Scale

• The profile of the sustainable consumer
• How consumers prioritise what they put in the shopping basket
• What “sustainability” means to them
• The most trusted sustainable brands—and why they stand out

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• Strategy alignment: How to ensure your sustainability transformation aligns with the broader business objectives
• Sustainability team set-up: The high-priority skills and qualities to look for when recruiting and building your sustainability team.
• Leadership style: How to evolve your leadership style as your sustainability program matures.
• Budget management: Effective strategies for developing, securing and scaling a sustainability budget.

• Types of collaboration: Challenges and opportunities associated with within-value-chain collaboration, across-value-chain collaboration, and pre-competitive collaboration.
• When, where and who to collaborate with (and not): How to identify the right opportunities and partners—and when it’s best to go solo.
• Creating collaborative initiatives that scale: Key components for setting up partnerships that can scale (not just multiply).
• Who takes the credit? Innovative tools and accounting practices like differentiated product carbon footprints to verify reductions in collaborative efforts.
• Budgeting, resources and incentives: Monetary (price premiums, 3rd party financing) and non-monetary incentives (long off-take agreements) to sustain collaborations.

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In this episode, we discuss the surging popularity of Product Carbon Footprints (PCFs). We cover:

• The PCF Boom: The rapid growth of PCF generation
• PCF value: Where PCFs deliver value and where they fall short.
• PCF challenges: The key challenges to be aware of when generating and sharing PCFs.
• Data readiness: How to balance PCF demands with data accuracy and confidence
• PCF set up: Practical guidance on generating and sharing meaningful PCFs

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The majority of businesses calculating baselines use less than >10k emission factors (crazy).

What does this mean?

It means emission calculations aren't accurate and decarbonisation efforts remain invisible.

In this episode we get to the bottom of this and discuss:

• EF Recap: what is an EF and how is one developed
• Current State of Play: Understanding the current landscape of EF usage and challenges.
• The EF Dilemma: Balancing consistency and accuracy in EFs.
• EF Types: Deciphering the differences between supplier-specific and secondary EFs
• Primary Data: The role and need of primary data collection in EF development.
• Solutions and Trends: Discovering innovative approaches to accurate EF calculation and future trends in the field.

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In our latest podcast ep, we discuss essential leadership strategies to supercharge your sustainability team, namely:

- Team retention: How to retain and motivate top talent in a competitive market

- Skill development: Where and when to invest in upskilling

- Performance metrics: What metrics and bonus schemes are useful to track and implement

- Headcount budget and resource management: How to optimise team resources

- Team culture: Observed tactics for fostering team culture from the F&B industry

In part one (of a two-part mini-series), we discuss:

• Core characteristics: The key attributes contributing to a well-structured and effective sustainability team.
• Must-have roles: The indispensable positions that every sustainability team needs to function optimally.
• Internal vs. external: When to prioritise internal hiring and when to seek external expertise through consultants or software.
• Budgeting: How to secure the necessary headcount budget for your sustainability team.
• Attracting talent: The best strategies to attract top tale
  
  

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Saif Hameed and Piers Cooper, Senior Sustainability Research Manager (LCA) at Altruistiq discuss FLAG, what it is, if you should prioritise it, and if you do prioritise it, how to maximise your ROI. They cover:

• A recap: What is FLAG and the measurement requirements
• Strategic importance: When and why should a company prioritise FLAG over other sustainability initiatives
• Measurement challenges: The primary FLAG challenges and solutions to overcome them
• Commercial opportunities: How to leverage FLAG to create competitive advantages and unlock commercial opportunities
• Trend watch: The upcoming changes to FLAG and trends to be aware of.

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