State of Sustainability – Details, episodes & analysis

In this episode, we highlight the common mistakes that sustainability professionals make and sound out the solutions. We discuss:

• Market insight: Is SBTi still credible?
• Mistake trends: The most common pitfalls that sustainability professionals face.
• Root causes: The underlying reasons behind these mistakes.
• Data challenges: The limitations of working with aggregate data and best practices for overcoming them.
• GHG to PCF: How professionals can effectively gather and manage supplier data for greenhouse gas emissions reporting.
• Commercial opportunities: Understand the benefits and competitive advantages

Camilla Riddiford, Head of Sustainability at Arla UK, shares her advice on how to turn colleagues from bystanders to sustainability champions (without breaking the bank or your sanity).

In this episode, we discuss:

• Tailored communication strategies for diverse audiences
• Effective content formats that resonate
• Balancing data and narratives for a compelling business case
• Prioritising upskilling, and training programs for key teams

Link to event: https://www.altruistiq.com/events/women-in-sustainability-summer-garden-mixer

In this episode, we discuss:

• Key regulatory reporting trends: the evolving landscape, AI and what it means for your business.
• How to optimise your reporting team: best practices for setting up a high-performing, reporting team.
• Collaboration tips: strategies for working effectively with finance and legal on reporting.
• How to streamline your approach: tools, data infrastructure and ways of working to improve your reporting process.

Saif Hameed and Audrey Leduc, North American Director for Planet Friendly Practices at McCain Foods unpack how to scale regenerative agriculture. They discuss:

• Measuring impact: the key indicators and data points needed to track and demonstrate progress against regenerative agriculture
• Building strategic partnerships: principles for identifying and developing partnerships (that will last)
• Farmer engagement toolbox: how to successfully engage farmers and make regenerative agriculture attractive
• Financial solutions: innovative financing solutions to tackle upfront costs
• Communication strategy: compelling B2B and B2C communication techniques to drive engagement and commercial value.

*Please note that the activation initiatives mentioned (time stamp: 34:12) in the franchises in Canada are with A&W, not Burger King.

Off the back of our flagship sustainability event in Chicago, where we hosted 70+ F&B sustainability professionals working on sustainability data challenges in the agri value chain, a few key trends emerged. In this episode, we dig into:

- “Action first - reporting second”.

- Qualities of the “best” kind of decarbonisation initiatives

- Data transparency is very different between B2B vs B2C

• How to make sure your circularity initiative is revenue-generating

• How to set a carbon cost
• How do you utilise carbon pricing when data in the supply chain at the product level is sparse?
• When is a carbon price most defensible
• Carbon pricing success stories

We have an upcoming webinar on Carbon Pricing (June 26th at 3pm BST), register here: https://www.altruistiq.com/events/setting-up-a-successful-carbon-price

Saif Hameed and Pedro Lafargue, Global Climate Action Manager at OFI discuss:

• The principles for a successful insetting project
• The level of data accuracy needed for compliance vs action
• How to track and account for carbon removals (when standardisation is lacking)
• Best practices for monetising carbon insetting projects

Market highlight:

• How the SEC’s climate disclosure ruling impacts your business

Topic deep dive: A playbook on how to:

• Build a strong business case for sustainability
• Optimise team set up to unlock resources
• Boost company-wide sustainability literacy and buy-in

NEW SEASON LAUNCH.

This season will include the latest corporate sustainability market highlights followed by problem-solving deep dives on all flavours of challenges that sustainability practitioners face.

In this episode, we cover:

Market highlights:

• Corporate black sliding on climate pledges
• The Greenwashing clamp down and how to make water-tight claims

Topic deep dive: Effective sustainability data comms

• Internal communication and engagement tactics for sustainability data buy-in
• External comms: how to demonstrate progress to stakeholders

Any challenges that we've missed? Get in touch with content suggestions and we'll cover them off in our next episode.

In this episode, we discuss how to:

• Launch effective Farmer Reduction Plans: Lessons from McCain and Innocent
• Prepare for supply chain disruptions, drawing learnings from the recent cocoa crisis
• Navigate insetting challenges, specifically how to avoid competitors ‘free riding’ off your reduction initiatives
• Maximise the value of your insets
• Make reductions work at farm level (multi year contracts)