6th Annual Sustainability Week 2021 | The Economist | 22 March 2021 | Virtual

Limiting global warming to 1.5°C will require unparalleled transformations to businesses, industries and supply chains. Investors and citizens demand action. Firms are responding: with more and more signing on to bold targets grounded in climate science. But while sustainability is far from languishing on the corporate periphery, far more effort is needed―and fast.

Over four days, The Economist’s sixth annual Sustainability Week will provide actionable insights and solutions to help businesses on their path to greater sustainability. We will explore how firms can effectively measure, analyse, transform and scale their sustainability initiatives. How can sufficient investment be unlocked? How can good data be generated? What incentives are needed to stimulate innovation?

Who should attend?
• Senior sustainability and CSR professionals - all industries
• Impact investors / responsible investors
• Charities and organisations with an interest in sustainability issues
• Sustainability academics e.g. researchers and professors
• Government bodies / departments who focus on the environment

2021 Speakers

Larry Fink
Chairman and chief executive, BlackRock

Arvind Krishna
Chairman and chief executive, IBM

Andrew Bailey
Governor, Bank of England

Bill Winters
Chief executive, Standard Chartered PLC

Mark Carney
Special envoy for climate action, United Nations

Ben van Beurden
Chief executive, Royal Dutch Shell

Alison Rose
Chief executive, NatWest Group

Nico Rosberg
Sustainability entrepreneur and investor

Catherine Howarth
Chief executive, ShareAction

David Rubenstein
Co-founder and co-executive chairman, The Carlyle Group

Christopher Ailman
Chief investment officer, CalSTRS

Lucas Joppa
Chief environmental officer, Microsoft

Tanya Steele
Chief executive, WWF-UK

Sinead Lynch
UK country chair, Royal Dutch Shell

John Pettigrew
Chief executive, National Grid

Barry O’Byrne
Chief executive, global commercial banking, HSBC

Andrew Morlet
Chief executive, Ellen MacArthur Foundation

Philippe Ducom
President, ExxonMobil Europe

Marc Engel
Chief supply chain officer, Unilever

Emma Howard Boyd
Chair, Environment Agency

Kevin Petty
Director of science & forecast operations and public-private partnerships, IBM's The Weather Company

Pia Heidenmark Cook
Chief sustainability officer, Ingka Group

Alice Steenland
Chief sustainability officer, Dassault Systèmes

Tom Delay
Chief executive, The Carbon Trust

Colin Hunt
Chief executive, Allied Irish Banks

Ezgi Barcenas
Global vice president of sustainability, AB InBev

Virginijus Sinkevičius
Commissioner, environment, oceans and fisheries, European Commission

Peter Lacy
Chief responsibility officer and global sustainability services lead, Accenture

Kristen Sullivan
US sustainability services leader and global audit & assurance climate services leader, Deloitte

Willem Evers
Head, sustainable finance office, Dutch Central Bank

Eric Usher
Head, UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative

Catarina Paulson
Vice-president, sustainability, Alfa Laval

Gilles Tisserand
Head, sustainability transformation, Tetra Pak Europe & Central Asia

Alexis Garatti
Head, macroeconomic research, Euler Hermes

Carine Smith Ihenacho
Chief governance and compliance officer, Norges Bank Investment Management

Joy Ditto
President and chief executive, American Public Power Association

Suzanne Wise
Senior vice-president, corporate affairs and communications, JTI

Halide Alagöz
Chief supply chain and sustainability officer, Ralph Lauren Corporation

Warren Saunders
President, global sales, GfK

Stéfan Descheemaeker
Chief executive, Nomad Foods

Kate Brandt
Sustainability officer, Google

Joe Sczurko
Executive president consulting, Wood

Peter Mitchell
Environment director, Japan Tobacco International

Naïm Abou-Jaoudé
Chief executive, Candriam

Márcia Balisciano
Chair, UN Global Compact UK Network and global director, corporate responsibility, RELX plc

Chris Stark
Chief executive, UK Committee on Climate Change

Arun Majumdar
Former under secretary of energy, United States

Nicholas Stern
Chair, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, LSE

Claudia Attanasio
E&C onshore division environment and social manager, Saipem

Laura Vicaria
CSR manager, Mud Jeans

Adam Matthews
Director, ethics and engagement, Church of England Pensions Board

Lara Wolters
Member of the European Parliament

Carlos M. Duarte
Distinguished professor and Tarek Ahmed Juffali Research Chair in Red Sea Ecology, KAUST

Corli Pretorius
Deputy director, UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre

William McDonough
Chief executive, McDonough Innovation

Anita Ramasastry
Henry M. Jackson Endowed Professor of Law, School of Law, University of Washington

Adam Sieminski
President, KAPSARC

Jim O’Neill
Chair, Chatham House

Dries Acke
Director, Energy Systems Programme, European Climate Foundation

Peter Hall
Vice-president and global director for sustainable infrastructure, Wood

Alasdair Grainger
Deputy director, corporate finance advisory and investor relations, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Matthias Thorns
Deputy secretary-general, International Organisation of Employees

Samantha McCulloch
Head, CCUS Unit, International Energy Agency

Laure Cucuron
General manager, TerraCycle Europe

Saadia Madsbjerg
Co-author of Making Money Moral and former managing director, Rockefeller Foundation

Deeptha Khanna
Chief business leader personal health, Philips

Chris Southworth
Secretary-general, ICC United Kingdom

Marine de Bazelaire
Group advisor on natural capital, HSBC

Michael Cappucci
Director for compliance and sustainable investing, Harvard Management Company

Katja Seidenschur
Sustainability director, Nestle Zone Europe Middle East and North Africa

Lutfey Siddiqi
Managing director, CFA Institute, and visiting professor in practice, LSE IDEAS

Sacha Nauta
Public-policy editor, The Economist

Chiara Petrella
Group environment manager, Saipem

Olga Smirnova
Manager non-financial reporting, Heineken

Heidi Hautala
Vice-president and member, European Parliament

Matt Maier
Owner, Thousand Hills Lifetime Grazed

Eric Hespenheide
Board chairman, GRI

Paul Dickinson
Executive chair, CDP

Peter Bakker
President and chief executive, World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Masakazu Toyoda
Chairman and chief executive, The Institute of Energy Economics

Nina Seega
Research director for sustainable finance, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership

Maria Zuber
Vice-president for research and E. A. Griswold professor of geophysics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Zack Angelini
Manager, Environmental Stewardship, Timberland

Brendan Edgerton
Director, circular economy, World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Paul Druckman
Chair, World Benchmarking Alliance Supervisory Board

Carol Adams
Professor of accounting, Durham University

Zanny Minton Beddoes
Editor-in-chief, The Economist

Daniel Franklin
Executive and diplomatic editor, The Economist

Anne McElvoy
Senior editor and head of Economist Radio, The Economist

Cailin Birch
Global economist, The Economist Intelligence Unit

Charlotte Howard
New York bureau chief and energy and commodities editor, The Economist

Jan Piotrowski
Business editor, The Economist

Kenneth Cukier
Senior editor, The Economist

Matthieu Favas
Finance correspondent, The Economist

Peter Kiernan
Lead analyst, energy, The Economist Intelligence Unit

Rachana Shanbhogue
Finance and economics editor, The Economist

Simon Wright
Industry editor, The Economist

Andrew Palmer
Executive editor, The Economist

2021 Sponsors

DIAMOND SPONSORS:
• HSBC
• IBM

PLATINUM SPONSOR:
• Accenture
• AIB
• KAPSARC

SUPPORTER:
• JTI

GOLD SPONSORS:
• AB InBev
• Candriam
• Google Cloud
• Growth from Knowledge
• Nationalgrid
• NatWest Group
• Wood

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Alfa Laval
• Deloitte
• Euler Hermes
• Exxon Mobil
• Invesco
• Nomad Foods
• Tetra Pak
• Wellington Management

PR AGENCY:
• Porter Novelli

SUPPORTING ASSOCIATION:
• Carbon Trust
• International Tree Foundation