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Sustainable Brands 2013: From Revolution to Renaissance

Laura Lee Dooley — Thu, 16 May 2013 09:18:18 -0400

Creating Conditions for a Flourishing Future

Sustainable Brands 2013 – Discover what happens when brand strategists & designers connect with sustainability teams to drive purpose driven innovation. An explosion of creativity and imagination is sweeping across the global brand community much like that of the 16th century Renaissance. Courageous brand leaders and entrepreneurs are finding ways to reinvent business and economies by looking to healthy natural systems for inspiration. Join the assembly of global thought leaders and practitioners who are demonstrating the many ways that brands can benefit by leading the way to a flourishing future.

Participate in the birth of a Sustainable Brand Renaissance by joining over 1,500 attendees in over 80 sessions, workshops, plenaries, evening events, and co-create sessions. Collaborate with market-making companies such as Unilever, Coca-Cola, UPS, Ford, Molson Coors plus others as peers and colleagues gather for the largest annual Sustainable Brands community event this coming June in San Diego, CA. Take part in innovation studios and experiential brand-activation activities, an expanded solutions expo, research roundtables, and more.

WRI BREAKOUT SESSION ON STRATEGY AND METRICS

Business Tools for Transformation: A Sustainability SWOT and Creating a Step-Change toward Sustainability

3:30-4:30pm
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Sunset Ballroom 1-3

Moderator:

Eliot Metzger, Senior Associate, WRI

Panelists:

Sally Uren, Deputy Chief Executive, Forum for the Future
Katie Dillon, Sustainability Manager, Target

Description: How does WRI’s sSWOT tool help drive action and collaboration that gets companies to go beyond incremental innovation? What types of partnerships does a company need to help fully utilize the strengths of sSWOT? How is sSWOT related to systems innovation and Forum for the Future’s step change exercise?

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For more information and to register, visit http://www.SustainableBrands13.com or call 415.626.2212

June 2013 Webinar Training: GHG Protocol Product Standard

Laura Lee Dooley — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:11:44 -0400

The GHG Protocol will be hosting an online training course on the Product Standard. All GHG Protocol Product Standard Webinar Course attendees will receive a certificate of course completion after actively participating in all course sessions.

Registration for the webinar is currently available through this link for US$500. Please note that course registration is limited and will close once we reach capacity. An application for individuals to apply for a reduced fee may be found here. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis. (Please note that only a limited number of reduced fees will be awarded based on demonstrated need.) For questions please contact Stacy Kotorac at SKotorac@wri.org.

Dates: The webinar will take place June 4th, 5th, & 6st from 10:00 am to 1:30 pm EST (corresponding local times for some cities in additional time zones are given in the table below). The training is conducted through all three days and individuals are required to attend all three days in order to be eligible for the certificate of participation. Each day will have an interactive format including case studies and exercises.

Find out more or register

SIBRT Congress III: Best Practices in SIBRT in Latin America

Laura Lee Dooley — Fri, 03 May 2013 17:05:43 -0400

The association of Latin American Integrated Transportation Systems and Bus Rapid Transit (SIBRT), in partnership with BHTrans and EMBARQ Brasil is inviting you to the SIBRT Third Congress: “Best Practices in SIBRT in Latin America”, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, June 4 to 7, 2013.

The SIBRT Congress is expected to attract 500 representatives from public agencies managing advanced systems of public transport; private operators; and experts from industry suppliers. The conference aims to cultivate discussion on best practices in sustainable transport, with a focus on improving quality of service and user satisfaction.

Activities:

Best Practices Congress
Trade Shows
General Assembly - SIBRT
Technical Visits
Meeting of industry suppliers, managers, and operators
Workshop for Operators

For more information:

Please visit congresosibrt.org, email comunicacion@sibrtonline.org or call +55 41 3088 4196.

An informal discussion with Andreas Dahl-Jørgensen

Laura Lee Dooley — Fri, 17 May 2013 07:39:13 -0400

Join WRI and Andreas Dahl-Jørgensen, for an informal discussion on Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI). NICFI supports the international REDD+ agenda and includes large-scale partnerships with Brazil, Guyana, Indonesia, and Tanzania.

Adviser Andreas Dahl-Jørgensen is responsible for the collaboration with Indonesia, and also works on the initiative’s strategy, global REDD-finance and the private sector, sustainable commodity value chains and the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF).

Refreshments will be provided. Kindly register by 7 June.

Our office is located within walking distance of Union Station in downtown Washington, D.C. If you are arriving by Metro, use the First Street, NE exit at Union Station.

Register by June 7

Caring for Climate WEBINAR: Responsible Corporate Engagement On Climate Change Policy

Laura Lee Dooley — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:29:01 -0400

Caring for Climate was launched by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in July 2007. The initiative is jointly convened by the United Nations Global Compact, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Caring for Climate endeavors to help prevent a climate change crisis by mobilizing a critical mass of business leaders to implement and recommend climate change solutions and policies.

Ahead of the 19th Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC to be held in November 2013 in Warsaw, Poland, Caring for Climate is conducting a study on corporate engagement on climate change policy, together with the World Resources Institute (WRI), the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Ceres and CDP.

This study seeks to help companies evaluate, improve and demonstrate responsible influence on climate change policy, as well as to develop guidance material and recommendations for companies to become responsible corporate climate stewards. Responsible business engagement on climate change policy can help steer more action and commitments from both businesses and policy-makers in support of the climate agenda.

Two webinars will be conducted to gather input from signatories on the study. The next one will be on July 25. Webinars will be open for Caring for Climate signatories.

To register please send an email to caring4climate@un.org

Caring for Climate WEBINAR: Responsible Corporate Engagement On Climate Change Policy

Laura Lee Dooley — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:51:47 -0400

Two webinars will be conducted to gather input from signatories on the study. The previous one was on June 20. Webinars will be open for Caring for Climate signatories.

To register please send an email to caring4climate@un.org