East Midlands Sustainability Summit 2024
As the business community continue to engage with the drive to transition to net zero and to decarbonise their operations, this year’s East Midlands Sustainability Summit will have a focus on how we maintain momentum.
Tackling climate change and nature’s decline remains one of the most pressing issues of our generation, which if left unchecked will bring with it the potential for extensive business disruption in the not too distant future.
Ensuring a just transition for all is essential, how we overcome some of these challenges, how we deal with climate fatigue and engage our customers and employees, is key to making the changes required to enable us to hit our climate goals.
On the day, through a range of speakers, workshops and panel discussions, there will be industry specialists, scholars, and the business community, together to explore how we overcome some of the main barriers to ensure a timely transition to net zero and how we can hit the climate change challenge head on.
Overview
Agenda
- Green Growth Trends for the East Midlands – Dr Polina Baranova, Associate Professor of Strategy and Sustainability, University of Derby
- Driving Change: Carbon Maturity and the Scope 3 Challenge – Julie Adams, Carbon, Cost and Procurement Consultant, Auditel.
- Optimising Stakeholder Engagement to Deliver Sustainability Strategic Success – Becky Valentine, Co-owner, Sustainability & Building Health Consultant, Spenbeck
- The role of green skills in driving forward the transition to net zero – Rebecca Clayton, Partner, PwC
- Business Case Study – The role of data in the decarbonisation journey – Andy Wright, Responsible Business Director, Samworth Brothers
Workshops
- Is the sun is still shining on solar panels? – Geo Green Power
- Risk Mitigation and Adaptation, relating to ESG -Innoscope
- Local Nature Recovery Strategy for Derbyshire: what it means for regional businesses – University of Derby
- Sustainable Manufacturing in SMEs: Master Students research reflections – MTC
- Practical overview of why Viridis Building Serivces puts such store in the sustainability agenda.
- The Power of Stakeholder engagement: How to create an ESG strategy that engages everyone – Now or Never
- Sustainable Derby Partnership: Why do we need another partnership? – Derby City Council
