ENGAGE 2024: The Sustainability Reporting and Communications Sessions

Event Date: 25/01/2024 1:00 pm

Hosted during edie’s third annual Engagement Week, this online event offers up an afternoon of live, interactive webinar presentations and discussions – all dedicated to helping sustainability, ESG and communications professionals understand the everchanging sustainability reporting landscape and drive stakeholder engagement to accelerate climate action.

The way sustainability and net-zero progress is reported and communicated has radically changed. Changing regulation and standardisation is making for an increasingly complex non-financial reporting landscape. Meanwhile, investors, customers and society are applying increasing pressure on businesses to present sustainability data in coherent, engaging formats which avoid greenwashing.

edie’s ENGAGE 2024 online event effectively combines three webinars into a single afternoon, with each session taking a particular format. The first will take the form of an audience-led Q&A; the second will be a series of quick-fire case studies; and the third will take a ‘masterclass’ format.

Registrants will get access to all three webinar sessions on the day. Full details of the three Sustainability Reporting and Communications Sessions are as follows:

13:00-13:45

1) The Disclosure digest Q&A: Shaping your disclosure strategy in 2024

• Mandatory climate disclosure: Are you prepared?
• TCFD, TPT: How to think long-term about your climate goals
• Reporting frameworks and standards: How the landscape is changing
• Data collection and dissemination: Top tips to drive meaningful change

Speakers:

• Owen Anderson, Head of Sustainability, OVO Energy
  
• Michelle Norman, Director of External Affairs and Sustainability, Suntory Beverage & Food Europe
• Ariane Ephraim, Sustainability Manager, Workspace

14:00-15:00

2) The anti-greenwash Hour: Best-practice case studies to corporate engagement

Our second session offers up a series of never-before-seen, quick-fire case studies, hearing from some of the organisations that are unleashing the power of purpose to engage key stakeholders, spark behaviour change and drive meaningful change – all while avoiding greenwash and making their claims stand out.

Discussion points:

• From greenwash to greenhush: Striking the right balance with your sustainability communications
• Building stronger relationships through transparency
• Taking a purpose-led approach to your reporting and communications, and measuring the impacts

Speakers:

• Emilie Stephenson, Head of Force for Good, innocent Drinks
• Jorge Laguna-Celis, Director of One Planet Network, UNEP
• Elle Chartres, Director, Ad Net-Zero UK

15:15-16:00

3) 45-minute masterclass: Top tips to collecting and utilising meaningful data

Our third and final session will equip you with specific tools and practical techniques to collect sustainability data and present it in ways that maximise engagement and impacts. From data collection systems to reporting standards and assurance – this masterclass-style session has it covered.

Discussion points:

• Data collection: Cutting through the complexity
• Identifying the hotspots for action
• Trust and transparency: Driving meaningful engagement in the age of disinformation

Speakers:

Charlotte Wood, Sustainability Manager/Net-Zero Lead, Nottingham Trent University
Claire Davies, Sustainable Procurement Manager, Nottingham Trent University