Agenda
9:00 Opening Remarks
Vanessa Havard-Williams Head of Environment Group, Linklaters
Francis Sullivan Adviser on the Environment, Group Corporate Sustainability, HSBC Holdings plc
Roger Harrabin Environment Analyst, BBC
9:05 KEYNOTE Battling Green Fatigue: Keep the Green Issue Top of the Agenda
The success of all your climate change strategies depends on whether you manage to engage top management, employees and your customers. What are the easiest and most successful ways to stimulate internal and external engagement?
- How to win advocates in top management
- Becoming a green leader and engaging your staff and customers
- Is being green the new social responsibility: making sustainability personal
Two respected thinkers give the benefit of their very different experiences on the thorny topic of how to maintain the profile of the green agenda at a time when other factors are beginning to fight for priority.
Jan Muehlfeit Chairman Europe Microsoft Corporation
John Sauven Executive
Director Greenpeace
9:40 PANEL DEBATE Who Is In Charge of the Climate Change Agenda? How can business bring government and individuals further into the climate change fight?
Making the transition to a low carbon economy is going to be a painful business for all stakeholders. But who ultimately should take responsibility - Governments, industry or individuals? This panel debate provides a forum to pin down the interrelating roles of politicians, business leaders and consumers/citizens in taking accountability and eliciting change.
- Whose job is it anyway? How can governments, industry and consumers work together?
- Why business needs to create communication channels to policy makers
- Taking account – understanding the role of business in precipitating change
- How the change drivers are evolving for different stakeholders and the right incentives for behavioural change
- How can we achieve global agreement and what role can business play?
- What do we do while the public majority refuse to change their ways?
Sam Mountford Managing Director GlobeScan
Richard Tarboton Energy and Carbon Programme
Director
BT
Santiago Gowland Global Head CSR Unilever
Dr Caroline Lucas Green
Party MEP for SE England
Richard Barrington Head of Public Policy Sun Microsystems
10:10 THINK TANK Climate Change in the Developing World: Crisis or Opportunity?
Just as many Western countries begin to get to grips with reducing carbon emissions the carbon footprint of some developing countries is growing at an exponential rate. So what difference can we really make? This think tank brings together ‘Green Gurus’, politicians and business leaders to discuss the latest thinking on how the west can work with the developing world to curb global warming.
- How will businesses be accountable for the growing emissions of India and China?
- Moral and ethical obligations – what role must developed economies play in engaging the developing world?
- What can business do to work with partners developing economies and making the most of the business opportunities?
- What lessons can the West learn from the developing world?
- How should your energy procurement strategy be affected? Knowledge and technology transfer to and from India, China and the other emerging economies - how participate and benefit
Jo da Silva Director ARUP
David Croft Director of Ethical Sourcing Cadbury
Schweppes
Mike Barry Head of Corporate Social Responsibility Marks and Spencer
Edward Hanrahan Executive Director Climate Care
