According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to avoid some of the most devastating impacts of global warming, we need to slash carbon emissions by 45% by 2030 and completely decarbonise by 2050. That lays a stark challenge to everyone, including the business community. On purely sustainable grounds, companies need to drastically change how they operate. Implementing environmentally friendly measures can have clear financial benefits. How are businesses successfully making the case for sustainability and what’s the positive impact on their bottom line?

Communicating what businesses are doing on sustainability to investors has become a requirement. Disclosure is becoming big. But consistent, comparable and widespread disclosure on climate related issues is still not widely discussed. The Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosures is addressing that by creating a framework for more effective climate related reporting and informed investment decisions. Hear both sides of the coin: how are organisations improving the way they make climate related financial disclosures and what information are investors seeking from disclosures.

Corporations are redefining their purpose to focus not just on shareholders, but on all stakeholders – including customers, employees, suppliers, communities. In this discussion we’ll question if business can champion corporate purpose in a meaningful way, and ask, does responsible capitalism pay off?

Most companies’ direct impact on the environment comes from them having to power themselves, make things and move them around. Hear from BloombergNEF how the disruptive technologies changing our world can be harnessed to make these activities cleaner, more reliable and more efficient.

Hear from LEON Co-Founder and CEO John Vincent on how he was inspired to remake fast food as “if God made it in heaven” and the journey to make healthy food into a sustainable, global business.