Your edie Membership
Edition 02 | Mar ’24 – May ‘24
Welcome to your new and exclusive edie Member newsletter, which edie’s Intelligence team will be sharing quarterly to help you stay ahead of the climate curve and make the most of your membership benefits.
Make sure you have a read of our latest Sustainable Business Tracker report which has just been released, and don’t forget to sign up for the upcoming virtual and face-to-face member briefings and networking opportunities – the next being our Scope 3 Emissions Workshops Day on 14 June in London.
Update from the editor
Times are changing, making connections and collaboration vital. The editorial team has just wrapped up an action-packed Business Leadership Month, which showcased award winning corporate climate initiatives, captured the key discussions at our flagship event – edie 24 – and delivered in-depth analysis on the shifting landscape of corporate target setting and delivery mechanisms. There’s been a lot of noise about the number of companies struggling to validate ambitious science-based targets and the latest indications about the use of carbon offsetting only add to the confusion that sustainability professionals are grappling with. edie Membership is about turning climate ambitions and guidance into tangible, leading sustainability actions, cutting through the noise to connect sustainability professionals with the latest advice and insight to help make a difference. Our latest Sustainable Business Tracker Report serves to highlight just how much corporate action hinges on collective action and policy reforms, against an immensely challenging backdrop. The next month or so is all about regrouping, reflecting and reconnecting as a community to discuss how our network of members plan can set and deliver toward robust, transparent and leading targets that will showcase that businesses can be a force for good. We’ll be meeting up virtually next week (16.04.24) to reflect on the latest advice and guidance from the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) and share some learnings on how to deliver long-term, but agile and flexible climate action plans. Thanks for being a loyal edie Member, together I believe we can begin to really shift the dial on sustainability and net-zero over the next couple of months.
Matt Mace
Editor
edie
Networking
Virtual
16 April 2024 | Online
Virtual Members Meeting & Networking
For our April virtual Members briefing, we’ll be exploring the current landscape when it comes to setting, validating and delivering net-zero and science-based targets, hearing insight on what best practice looks like and how businesses can be agile as they build up their approach to decarbonisation.
Time: 11am - 12pm
Topic: What is happening to corporate net-zero pledges?
Related article: Businesses to Utilise Carbon Offsetting More to Reach Net-Zero Goals
Live
14 June 2024 | London
Scope 3 Emissions Workshops Day 2024
Helping sustainability, energy and supply chain professionals tackle one of the most critical aspects of the net-zero transition: calculating, reporting and minimising value chain emissions.
Topic: Towards a net-zero value chain for business
05 July 2024 | London
edie Leaders Summer Lunch
Now in its 9th year, the edie Leaders Summer Lunch is the biggest exclusive content and networking event of the year for edie Members.
Agenda: Roundtable, breakfast briefing, drinks reception and 3-course lunch
Reports
Sustainable Business Tracker Jan-Mar 2024
Developed exclusively for edie Members, this quarterly report series breaks down the biggest sustainability drivers, challenges and opportunities facing the world of sustainable business right now. The premium report is based on an in-depth survey of 323 business and sustainability leaders from all major UK sectors. It also features a bonus Manufacturing Sector Supplement, drilling into current challenges, pain points, successes and ambitions for advancing sustainability in their organisations and across the industry. You will be able to find the report on your Membership Hub and by clicking here.
During this month we published a range of exclusive articles for members. Access them all through your membership hub.
Activists or accountants?: Are sustainability professionals stuck in reporting mode?
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