Watch & Listen

• What’s happening today: Mass surveying, “one platform rules them all” and an unrealistic push for “universal primary data”.
• Where we want to get to: data you can actually use.
• How to get there:  supplier contracts, blended procurement models, strategic upskilling, secure supplier data exchange (PACT)
• Key learnings from the transition

• Regenerative agriculture: what exactly regenerative agriculture means, how to fund it and how to implement it
• Optimising for supplier engagement and primary data use
• How far corporate influence goes when it comes to sustainability regulations, frameworks and standards

• Who's here (and who's not)
• What everyone is thinking, but not saying
• Where the real progress was made
• Reasons for optimism

• Primary vs secondary data collection strategies
• What primary and secondary data is
• Why we believe the "hybrid approach" is most effective
• How to implement a hybrid approach at scale

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• Team design: Create a clear strategy and vision, identify the optimal structure and organisational set-up for your team and understand where to resource and unlock budget.

• ‍Roles and responsibilities: Define the different roles and responsibilities needed, identify the skills and experience required for each role, find and recruit the best talent.

• Problems everyone is trying to solve.
• Rabbit holes everyone is going down.
• Light at the end of the tunnel that no one can see.

• Building a mission that is consistently sustainable
• Using data to prop up your mission
• Reinforcing your mission with appropriate governance
• Leveraging your data to reinforce incentives
• Greenwashing vs greenhushing
• Understanding when your data is 'good enough' to act upon

• The key challenges
• What's in it for business
• Key considerations to optimise product labelling

• What is FLAG
• The key challenges
• The business case for FLAG
• How to approach data gathering for FLAG
• FLAG in practice

• Why collaboration is hard
• Where to start
• Making the case for collaboration
• Key partnership opportunities

• Supplier data gathering challenges
• Key solutions: advice from the field
• Initiative in practice

• Revelation 1: Most companies will only consider environmental food labels if they’re mandatory
• Revelation 2: We’re even less ready for FLAG than we realised
• Revelation 3: Even the biggest companies are stuck when it comes to supplier engagement
• Revelation 4: We are sick of talking about ‘collaboration’

• Using supplier contracts to incentivise engagement
• What good and bad emissions data looks like
• Strategic sustainability hires to make
• How to make the business case for additional headcount
• How to set up a sustainability team within the company

• We cover how to generate value from better consumer engagement around sustainability. We break this into two pieces:
• Where to play: how to think about market segmentation and how to size the market opportunity.
• How to play: the strategies and approaches that work to effectively engage and generate value.

• How to build a business case for sustainability change in your organisation.
• The use of carbon pricing as a tool to prioritise business cases and align stakeholders.
• Effective carbon pricing strategies, offering up a few shortcuts and insights to help sustainability professionals on this journey.

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• Setting effective ESG bonuses.
• Understanding offset as a strategy
• The benefit insets vs. offsets
• Defining supplier agreements to promote the exchange of emissions data?

• Optimal internal budget allocation to drive productivity
• Maximising External Spend: flagging the key watch-outs and learnings when prioritising strategic investments
• Unlocking project spend for scale-ups
• Influencing internal budget

• Understanding your responsibilities as a CSO
• How to interface with the Board and CEO
• CSO Superpowers for Success
• How you can expect your role as a CSO to evolve

• How to navigate reporting lines with your CEO
• The pros and cons between ESG all in one vs Climate Specific software
• How to optimise internal alignment to enable efficient data gathering
• Data maturity and when to act

• Creating a sustainability data transformation strategy that aligns with your vision
• Setting up your data infrastructure for success
• Managing internal organisational alignment
• Optimising for external supplier alignment

• AI innovations and what holds the most potential for advancing emissions measurement
• Best way of approaching product-level emissions accounting
• How to establish robust data ethics for emissions data

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• The best way to incorporate land-based emissions into current sustainability data calculations
• Tips for solving for data blindspots in your supply chain
• What good FLAG reduction and removal interventions look like and the impact we can expect
• The main challenges to measuring FLAG emissions

• Predictions of the main sustainability priorities for the UK Government going forward
• How food companies can best approach evolving standards and frameworks
• How the focus on emissions will play out vs nutrition

• How long it will take for sustainability data to have parity of importance with financial data
• The benefit of using a software tool for measuring emissions vs building a tool internally
• How to collaborate with customers on sustainability to generate value
• The evolving role of a CSO