The majority of most organizations’ greenhouse gas emissions arise in their value chain – and most of those occur in extended supply chains. So it’s imperative that procurement, sourcing and supply chain management take effective action on GHG reductions. But that effort requires new forms of collaboration and engagement – with suppliers, distributors, shippers, and with competitors! This event will explore new ways of working together toward common climate goals.

Join us to hear from leaders how they are designing and participating in innovative collaborations for impact, and how you , too, can leverage collaboration to move at the pace and scale that the climate crisis requires.

Event Schedule

NOTE: All times in EASTERN.

Opening Remarks & Keynote: 12:00 - 1:15 pm
Expert Panel: 1:15 - 2:45 pm
Break: 2:45 - 3:00 pm
Interactive Workshops: 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Social Networking: 5:00 - 6:00 pm

Keynote Speakers

Renee Lertzman, PhD

Strategic Sustainability Consultant & Founder, Project InsideOut

Introductory Remarks

Renée Lertzman PhD is a psychological strategist and advisor based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She works with leaders and organizations who seek to scale impactful engagement across stakeholders, consumers and employees on ESG, climate and ecology. Her clients include Google, VMware, Unity, and numerous start-ups and philanthropic organizations.

Renee has a MA from University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and a PhD in Social Sciences from Cardiff University. She has published Environmental Melancholia (Routledge 2015), and is currently working on a trade publication about applying the psychology of climate and ecological threats to our business and personal practices.

Tim Mohin

Where are we- and what’s coming - in Supply Chain GHG Accounting and Reduction

Tim Mohin is a globally recognized sustainability/ESG executive. He is the former Chief Executive of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the world’s largest sustainability reporting standard.

With more than 20 years’ experience leading sustainability at three Fortune 500 companies – Intel, Apple and AMD – Tim has deep experience developing strategies to embed sustainability into business. He also led the development of environmental policy in the Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Senate, including the Clean Air Act.

Tim serves as an ESG advisor to large company Boards such as BASF and was a founder and Chairman of the Board for the Responsible Business Alliance. He is the author of Changing Business from the Inside Out and a frequent speaker and writer on sustainability and corporate responsibility.

Tim Mohin is consistently recognized in the top 20 of Corporate Social Responsibility Influence Leaders (Assent Compliance).

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Expert Panel

**Betty Cremmins**, Director for Sustainable Supply Chains — White House Council on Environmental Quality
**Dexter Galvin**, Global Director, Corporates and Supply Chains — CDP
**Garry Cooper**, PhD., CEO — Rheaply
**Natasha Schwarzbach**, Director, Global Procurement Sustainability — PepsiCo
Moderated by **Judy Panayos**, Sr Director, Sustainability Supply Management — Sodexo

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Interactive Workshops

En-ROADS: Deep Dive
Led by Christina Page, Climate Interactive
Please join us for an interactive and thought-provoking session on climate risk, climate solutions, and their impact on business.
Using the system dynamics computer model En-ROADS, developed by Climate Interactive and the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative, we will explore how the right investments, actions and policies can have a profoundly positive impact on climate change, limit transition risks, and create a thriving global economy.
This session will provide:
- An opportunity to test and discuss your own assumptions about which actions and investments have the biggest impact in addressing climate change.. and what effect they may have on your business and supply chains;
- An increased understanding of how climate transition risk affects the global economy and different industries;
- A discussion of which popular solutions have less impact in mitigating climate change than conventional wisdom suggests... and which solutions are often overlooked;
- Greater understanding of what is required to address the problem of climate change on a global scale.
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Special convening: SPLC Climate Foundations for Procurement Cohort

Led by Johanna Anderson and Kris Spriano, SPLC
Open to all current members of SPLC’s Climate Foundations for Procurement cohort. This session will be used to discuss the learnings from the keynote + panel sessions, test out some of the tools and resources introduced in previous Climate Foundations sessions, and discuss best practices and lessons learned with fellow participants.
Not a current member? Learn more about the program and join our waiting list for 2023 on our Climate Foundations page.

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Collaborative for Supply Chain Climate Innovation

Systems Mapping and Collaborative Design Session - By Invitation Only
SPLC is leading the development of a new multistakeholder Collaborative for Supply Chain Climate Innovation. This group of corporate and public sector procurement leaders, suppliers, advocates and supply chain experts will formally convene in January 2023 to begin innovating and testing breakthrough solutions to achieve major reductions in shared emission areas.
Join us to explore the dimensions of this initiative--how it will work, whether you should engage, and what the outcomes will look like - and to engage in systems mapping to better understand barriers to and opportunities for progress.
In this initial session, we'll demonstrate the collaborative innovation process, and you'll have a chance to share some of your key challenges, inform the priorities of the collaborative and learn more about our plans for convening leaders in 2023 to carry this work forward.
This session’s systems mapping output, together with insights we have gleaned from dozens of scoping interviews already underway with global leaders in procurement, sourcing, sustainability and supply chain management, will inform the development and help tune in the Collaborative’s areas of focus.
Please note that there is no need to prepare for the session ahead of time but we do ask that everyone who attends participate fully and without distractions so we can maximize the engagement and session benefits.

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