8:45

OPENING | Opening remarks from the Chair

8:50

OPENING | Opening remarks from SMH

Bevan Shields, Editor in Chief, The Sydney Morning Herald

8:55

MINISTERIAL ADDRESS

The Hon Matt Kean MP, NSW Treasurer and Minister for Energy

9:15

FORWARD THINKING | Where is Corporate Australia at with its Sustainability plans?

• What innovative practices are we seeing?
• How does Australia business compare internationally?
• How do you overcome skepticism and accusations of greenwashing?
• What evidence is there that a considered investment in sustainability will also result in improvements to the bottom line?

Kate Hart, ANZ Strategic Operations Lead, Kearney

10:00

REGULATORY ADDRESS | Regulating ESG – Combatting Greenwashing

• ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) challenges, implementation, and opportunities
• Greenwashing undermining the integrity of the marketplace and the efforts of investment
• Poor reporting practices leading to greenwashing and how companies should deal with ESG
• Actions to enforce regulations and polices by continuous monitoring of the market

Delia Rickard, Deputy Chair, Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC)

10:30

FIRE SIDE CHAT | The imperative action which needs to be taken

Ian Learmonth, Chief Executive Officer, Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC)

11:00

Morning Tea and Networking break

11:30

PANEL DISCUSSION | Harnessing a mandate for a shift in climate change policy

• Maintaining the momentum of the Community Independents election success
• What can be achieved in the next Parliament?
• What targets should now be in place for 2030, and how will we get there?
• What now for Australia’s fossil fuels?

Panelists:
Allegra Spender, MP, Wentworth
Kylea Tink, MP, North Sydney
Zali Steggall, MP, Warringah
Dr Sophie Scamps, MP, Mackellar

12:10

FNPW PRESENTATION | The Fight to Climate Change

• From fire to floods; How do corporate and government partnerships support sustainability initiatives in ensuring
  future communities are more resilient
• Implementation of program Plant One Million Trees Mission, in bushfire affected regions Australia wide by 2025
• Successfully measuring and reporting the impact which has been a result of the initiatives and programs that have
  been undertaken by FNPW

Ian Darbyshire, CEO, Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife (FNPW)

12:40

CASE STUDY | Creating a Circular Australia

• Successfully leading the transition to a zero- carbon, zero waste circular economy within Australia
• With 2023 around the corner what does it mean for the Circular Economy?
• How have the objectives set out been successfully implemented?

Lisa Mclean, Chief Executive Officer, NSW Circular

13:10

Lunch and networking break

14:10

CASE STUDY | Pathways to Sustainable Aerospace – Boeing

• How will the aviation industry reduce its emissions and meet the aviation industry 2050 net zero commitments?
• The role of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) and emerging technologies
• Supporting the Sustainable Aviation Fuels Alliance of Australia and New Zealand (SAFAANZ) in creating a collaborative environment to advance the production of SAF in Australia
• Opportunities for corporate entities to support SAF industry

Heidi Hauf, Regional Sustainability Lead Asia Pacific, Boeing

14:40

PANEL DISCUSSION | Successfully Implementing ESG within the Organisation

• Successfully embedding ESG into organisations and their daily operations
• Ensuring that ESG is at the fore front of the decision-making process
• Monitoring strategies, processes and progress being made by operating with an ESG approach
• Having frameworks in place to ensure sustainability practices are being upheld

Panelists:
Senior Executive, EQT
David Gall, Group Executive, Corporate & Institutional Banking, NAB
Cate Harris, Group Head of Sustainability, Lendlease

15:10

CASE STUDY | Implementation of ESG within Qantas

• Where does ESG sit within aviation and Qantas
• How it has been implemented and what is in place for monitoring the progress of ESG within the business
• What is Qantas working towards and what strategies are in place to ensure that it is successful within the business

Andrew Parker, Chief Sustainability Officer, Qantas Airways

15:40

Afternoon Tea and Networking break

16:10

PANEL DISCUSSION | Avoiding Greenwashing Reputation

• Organisations being able to exhibit physical evidence of their sustainable measures and upholding their reputation
• As an organisation what is being done to ensure that there are clear and defining sustainability terminology being used on products
• How organisations avoid misrepresenting the extent to which a financial product or investment strategy is economically friendly, sustainable, or ethical (Greenwashing)
• Sustainability considerations which have been factored into an organisation’s investment strategy

Panelists:
Justine Rowe, Chief Sustainability Officer, Telstra
Liam Ward, General Manager of Sustainability Transformation, Woolworths Group
Belinda Driscoll, Managing Director ANZ, Kimberly-Clark

16:40

CASE STUDY | Global Demand to Transition to Clean Energy

• Addressing the environmental needs which are demanding change to occur
• What are the challenges and blockages which businesses are trying to overcome in the process of transitioning to clean energy?
• Why is it imperative to create a strategy and or plan which outlines how businesses are working towards clean energy and net zero

Professor Paul Monks, Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

17:10

CLOSING | Closing remarks from the Chair

17:15

END OF SUMMIT | Networking drinks

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