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Green Strategy 2008 agenda finalised – JULY DISCOUNT
We are delighted to announce the completion of our agenda for Green Strategy 2008. The conference will take place on Thursday 27th November 2007 at The Royal Institute. We have a range of excellent speakers confirmed – a combination of the innovative, entrepreneurial businesses driving change and those impactful organisations who have so much potential to change our carbon impacts. Roger Harrabin will chair a range of CEOs and leaders in field that include representatives from Microsoft, Unilever, Sun Microsystems, Deutsche Telekom, Tesla Motors, Bovis Lend Lease, Ecover, Greenpeace, solarcentury, Man Group, Forum for the Future, Edelman, BT and many others. There is a £150 discount for all bookings made before the end of July. Your booking also entitles you to 12 months attendance of our business briefings and preferential treatment on the Green Monday series. Please book your place here now.
'Green Monday' launches
On Monday 7th July we held our first Green Monday event. Green Monday is a news and networking event for corporate climate change leaders. It’s aimed primarily at FTSE 350 organisations, but with a number of other innovators and leading thinkers. Santiago Gowland gave an excellent talk on the need for brands to properly understand how they each individually engage with the many issues related to climate change. We had over 100 people there, which was proof to us of how popular this event is going to be given the appalling weather that night. Well done to everyone who made it and I hope you got as much out of it as those we heard back from. You can make your application here now for September’s event.
China Event – An eye on the bigger challenge
Our business briefing series continues to look at some of the bigger topics in focus and there are fewer bigger issues than the sustainability of China’s economic development. We were privileged to hear from a number of world experts, including Liz Economy (Asia Studies at Council on Foreign Relations (USA)), Tao Wang of The Tyndall Centre, Nick Mabey of E3G and Isabel Hilton of China Dialogue. This fascinating and complex discussion will be available via this site fairly soon. We have two further business briefings planned this year on EU and UK climate change policy and the implications for business as well as a Post-Poznan briefing.
September’s Green Monday – Government Chief Scientific Adviser + Head of CSR, M&S
We are delighted to welcome John Beddington (Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government) and Mike Barry (Head of CR at Marks & Spencer) at the next Green Monday. Both will be addressing the issue of how we adapt to a world of reduced resource security. If you would like to join our expert group, get a bit of an update and make some new contacts then please join us on Monday 8th September. You can make your application here now.