Available on demand: edie’s Earth Overshoot Day webinar

edie’s webinar exploring the circular economy to mark Earth Overshoot Day 2020 is now available to watch on-demand, featuring expert speakers from the Ellen Macarthur Foundation, DS Smith and Toast Ale.


Available on demand: edie’s Earth Overshoot Day webinar

The webinar will feature a live Q&A segment and will be available to watch on-demand after it is aired

Sponsored by Centrica Business Solutions, the one-hour webinar is entitled ‘Earth Overshoot Day: How business can #MoveTheDate Post-Covid-19’. It saw senior sustainability professionals and resource efficiency experts exploring how the relationship between business and nature can be transformed to deliver a low-carbon, resource-efficient “new normal”, providing best-practice advice for listeners.

——WATCH THE WEBINAR HERE——

Earth Overshoot Day has been marked since the 1970s and is held to mark the calendar date at which humanity will have used up nature’s resource budget for the entire year.

2020 sees the date move back for the first time since 1971, after the earliest ever Earth Overshoot Day was observed on 29 July 2019. But this is due to the economic impact of the continuing Covid-19 pandemic rather than any radically transformational and holistic approaches from policymakers and businesses.

Given that any reduction in emissions or resource consumption which comes at the expense of human life and wellbeing, affecting those from the most marginalised demographics most profoundly, cannot be considered sustainable in the long-term, this webinar asked: How is the pandemic likely to affect the decoupling of economic growth from negative environmental impact? And what work must be done to make all sectors – even those which are the most ecologically impactful – one-planet compatible for good?

 

Webinar chair: 

Sarah George
Sarah George, Senior Reporter
edie 

Webinar presenters: 

Marilyn Martinez, senior analyst, Ellen Macarthur Foundation 


Wouter van Tol, Head of Government, Community Affairs & Sustainability, DS Smith

 

Louisa Ziane, Chief operating officer and sustainability director, Toast Ale

You can watch the webinar here.

edie Staff

Comments (1)

  1. Clive Bonny says:

    Excellent panel and I’m looking forward to an informed debate

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