Join WBCSD in Davos

World Economic Forum Annual Meeting

23-26 January 2018

 

On 23-26 January 2018, world leaders will get together at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos to address global challenges and agree on actions that will help improve the state of the world. This year’s theme Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World highlights the importance of having a collective purpose to implement impactful solutions in a world that has changed dramatically.

As every year, WBCSD will be hosting and co-hosting a series of events that will share examples of our pioneering work as an ever-increasing number of businesses step up to lead the transition towards a sustainable and inclusive world. Join us in Davos to understand the implications and capture the opportunities offered by this transformational journey which is changing the way business is made.

WBCSD presence at the World Economic Forum in Davos:

On 23-26 January 2018, world leaders will get together at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos to address global challenges and agree on actions that will help improve the state of the world. This year’s theme Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World highlights the importance of having a collective purpose to implement impactful solutions in a world that has changed dramatically.

As every year, WBCSD will be hosting and co-hosting a series of events that will share examples of our pioneering work as an ever-increasing number of businesses step up to lead the transition towards a sustainable and inclusive world. Join us in Davos to understand the implications and capture the opportunities offered by this transformational journey that is changing the way business is made.

WBCSD presence at the World Economic Forum in Davos:

Tuesday, 23 January 2018

 

Bridging the Circularity Gap through Leadership and Action
CEO Breakfast Dialogue and Launch of Factor10
07:00 am – 08:30 am
Fujitsu Penthouse, 5th floor, Promenade 95A, 7270 Davos-Platz

Over the last 40 years, annual extraction of materials has more than tripled. As the population grows and more consumers enter the middle class, the total demand for resources is expected to reach 130 billion tons by 2050, up from 50 billion in 2014. That’s an overuse of the Earth’s total capacity by more than 400%.

The circular economy presents a decoupling strategy to grow prosperities within the boundaries of the planet. It is the biggest opportunity to transform production and consumption since the First Industrial Revolution 250 years ago. By unleashing circular innovation, we can boost the global economy’s resilience, support people and communities around the world and help fulfil the Paris Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

WBCSD will bring together CEOs and other guests to launch the WBCSD program on circular economy – Factor10 – that aims to penetrate the heart of business leadership and practice, and move this from a concept among early adopters, into the practice of the early majority. This dialogue will discuss how circular the global economy is today, the systemic blockages to reaching scale, and the role of business leaders to scale up multi-stakeholder solutions.

Integrating Sustainability Risks into Enterprise Risk Management
Launch of Supplemental Guidance supporting the COSO ERM For Public Consultation
12:30 – 13.30
World Food Programme Tent, Davos

Institutional investors have observed that environmental, social and governance-related (ESG) issues can have a measurable effect on a company’s market value whilst proactive strategists have seen value creating opportunities in pursuing ESG inspired innovation. The 2017 WBCSD report, Sustainability and Enterprise Risk Management: the first step towards integration, confirms this.
This high-level lunch meeting organized by WBCSD and COSO will feature CEOs, CFOs, Risk Officers, policy leaders, accountants, economists, governance experts, philanthropists and leading companies in an interactive discussion focused on accelerating the integration of ESG Risks and Opportunities into ERM, internal and investor decision making and capital allocation.

Confirmed speakers:

  • Peter Bakker, President & CEO, WBCSD
  • Sandra Richtermeyer, COSO Board Member
  • Katherine Garrett-Cox, CEO, Gulf International Bank (UK)
  • Dan Esty, Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Clinical Professor of Environmental Law & Policy, Yale Law School

If you are interested to join, please send an e-mail to events@wbcsd.org

Wednesday, 24 January 2018

Mobilizing Capital for a Better World
11:00 am – 12:00 pm
The Female Quotient Lounge, Panorama Hotel
Promenade 80, 7270 Davos Platz

Hosted by the Female Quotient, JPMorgan Chase & Co., WBCSD and the Business and Sustainable Development Commission, the event will showcase the financial services industry’s role in advancing sustainability, as well as discuss ways in which the international development community can collaborate to mobilize new capital sources to help achieve the SDGs.

At the event, the Business and Sustainable Development Commission will release its Blended Finance Report, which has been developed through a multi-stakeholder effort over the last year to create a roadmap for deploying blended finance effectively.

The event will feature introductory remarks by WBCSD CEO Peter Bakker, followed by an engaging panel including Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, Chair, Business & Sustainable Development Commission and Daniel Pinto, CEO, J.P. Morgan Corporate & Investment Bank among others.

Thursday, 25 January 2018

Accelerating Sustainable Food Systems: Stocktake and Scale-Up
The Food and Land Use Coalition – Davos Breakfast Roundtable Discussion
7:30 am – 8:30 am
Hotel Derby, Promenade 139

Global food and land use systems are under increasing pressure to help protect and regenerate the planet’s bio-physical resources, provide people with healthy, nutritious food and offer 500m+ smallholder farmers and their families a decent, reliable standard of living. The Food and Land Use Coalition, formed in 2017, is an ambitious effort to accelerate global and local action for sustainable food and land use systems.

This high-level roundtable discussion will take stock of progress made and explore how to scale the efforts of the Coalition to date. Guests include Unilever CEO Paul Polman; Yara International CEO, Svein Tore Holsether; Founder and President of the EAT Foundation, Dr Gunhild Stordalen; and World Business Council for Sustainable Development CEO, Peter Bakker. We have invited President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos to open the discussion.

The roundtable in Davos aims to build the community of progressive leaders working with the Food and Land Use Coalition for the transformation of food and land use systems.

Accelerating the Zero Emission Mobility Revolution
19:30 – 21:30
World Food Programme Tent, Davos

Tex Gunning, CEO LeasePlan; Peter Bakker, President & CEO, WBCSD; and Nigel Topping, CEO, We Mean Business Coalition, will be hosting a Davos dinner during which leading figures from the automotive, energy, and infrastructure industries will share insights on the latest zero emission mobility technologies. Following interventions, attendees will discuss future action that is needed to accelerate the zero emission mobility revolution.

Friday, 26 January 2018

 

The need for transformational dietary shifts:
How to nudge consumer preference towards healthy & sustainable diets
07.30 am – 08:30 am
World Food Programme Tent, Davos

FReSH (a joint project of WBCSD and EAT), Royal DSM and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) are organizing a high-level breakfast on dietary shifts. Panelists and participants will discuss, “How can we make healthy and sustainable choices aspirational, and, ultimately, the ‘new normal’?”, positioning the consumer – the individual and his or her health and wellbeing – at the center of the food system transformation equation: Fork to Farm. 

Confirmed panelists:

  • Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer, Royal DSM (moderator)
  • Gunhild Stordalen, Founder and President of EAT Foundation
  • Keith Weed, Chief Marketing Officer, Unilever
  • Lawrence Haddad, Executive Director, GAIN
  • Miki TsusakaSenior Partner & Managing Director, Chief Marketing Officer, The Boston Consulting Group
  • Zara Ingilizian, Head of Consumer Industry & System Initiative, World Economic Forum

Following interventions from the panelists, inputs from breakfast participants will help shape future action.

If you are interested to join, please send an e-mail to events@wbcsd.org

 

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