Talking sustainability leadership with Gudrun Cartwright, Steve Kenzie and Rosanna Cole

edie's Mission Possible sofa chat show returns for 2019. In this episode, edie discusses what it means to be a sustainability leader with Business in the Community's environment director Gudrun Cartwright, N Global Compact's UK network director Steve Kenzie and supply chain expert Rosanna Cole.


Broadcast live from edie Live 2019 in Birmingham, the Mission Possible sofa interviews offer up an array of the energy and sustainability industry’s leading lights to delve deep into some of the hottest industry topics – from onsite solutions and low-carbon vehicles through to green policy and the circular economy.

The latest episode sees content editor Matt Mace discuss what the future of sustainability leadership really looks like in a time of digitisation and ‘Climate Emergency‘. Expert speakers from UN Global Compact and the University of Surrey discuss how companies of all sizes and in all sectors can align sustainability with profitability, while Business in the Community’s environment director Gudrun Cartwright offers insight on how businesses can increase their ambition in the face of growing activism surrounding climate change and plastics pollution. 

Previous episodes

In the first episode of this series, edie discusses clean growth with Ben Golding, director of energy efficiency – Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Make UK’s senior energy, climate and environment policy advisor Frank Aaskov and AECOM’s director of strategic advisory Shamit Gaiger. WATCH HERE.

In the second episode, edie’s content editor Matt Mace discusses the ongoing plastics crisis with Sky’s Fiona Ball and the BBC’s Lucy Siegle. WATCH HERE.

The third episode sees edie discusses net-zero with Julia Barrett, director of sustainability, Re-Thinking at Willmott Dixon and Simon Graham, head of innovation at De Courcy Alexander. WATCH HERE.

During episode four, edie talks all things plastics with Michelle Norman, corporate affairs and sustainability director at Lucozade Ribena Suntory, Marcel Arsand, chairman at Can Makers and Brendan Rouse, sustainability manager at Landsec. WATCH HERE

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