Panel discussion
Time: 10:05 am - 10:50 am
day: Day 1 – Business Leadership
Details:
The Decade of Delivery: Business Leadership for a Net-Zero Economy
This live and interactive panel discussion is all about making net-zero ‘Mission Possible’ for your business. Our panel of sustainable business leaders and climate experts will discuss how environmental and social sustainability can be aligned with core purpose, and explore exactly what makes a successful sustainability strategy in the 2020s.
Discussion points:
- Sustainable business and the green recovery: What happens next
- The known unknowns: Setting bold new targets for your business
- From SBTs to SDGs: Using global standards and frameworks to your advantage this decade
Speakers:
Anna is Chief Sustainability Officer at Dentsu International and a senior associate at the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Sustainability Leadership. Anna works at the intersection of strategy, communications and sustainability, helping organisations embed purpose at the heart of everything they do. She is a passionate advocate of digital technologies and their role in delivering the…Read more
James leads the CBI’s Energy & Climate Change team, supporting policy development and campaigns, and speaking on behalf of the CBI and its members. His work included leading the CBI’s campaigning for a UK net-zero emissions target and developing the CBI’s The Low-Carbon 2020s – a Decade of Delivery report. He joined the CBI in early 2019…Read more
Magali Anderson, French national, 1967, was appointed as a member of the Group Executive Committee of LafargeHolcim in October 2019. She joined LafargeHolcim as Group Head of Health & Safety in October 2016. Magali started her career as a field engineer on offshore oil rigs in Nigeria. She spent 27 years in the Oil and Gas industry, mainly with Schlumberger, holding operational line management…Read more
David Symons leads WSP’s Future Ready innovation programme, and its commitment to halve the carbon footprint of the firm’s designs and advice by 2030. David is Society for Environment’s Leader of the Year for 2020, a director of Aldersgate Group and a regular media commentator on environmental matters. Outside work he is a keen distance runner, and…Read more
Kim is the Head of Sustainable Business at EDF, Britain’s biggest generator of zero carbon electricity. She joined EDF in 2010 where she created the sustainability agenda for its Nuclear Generation business before taking on leadership of EDF’s UK-wide sustainability agenda in 2016. She has been instrumental to the development of EDF’s purpose: Helping Britain…Read more