International Online-Lecture: How to Become a Climate Positive Business?

Climate change has become one of the world’s most complex problems for humanity. The number of extreme weather events in Ukraine and around the world has significantly increased, causing social and economic losses.

The approach of business as usual is the biggest danger in the changing times. The development of a low-carbon and climate-resilient economy in accordance with the Paris Climate Agreement is a priority for the EU as well as for Ukraine. The United Nations has called on countries to reaffirm their commitment to combating climate change and to join a zero-emission coalition. The Government of Ukraine has recently updated its national plan to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions by 65 percent by 2030.

Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions over the next ten years will be achieved through a number of complex solutions, among which are modernization and upgrade of energy infrastructure and industrial enterprises; development of renewable energy sources; increase of share of renewable energy in total energy consumption; introduction of energy efficiency measures in more sectors of the economy; promotion of thermal modernization of buildings ramping up organic agriculture and resource-efficient agricultural practices; promotion of usage of electric vehicles and upgrading transport fleets; introduction more efficient waste management; acceleration of reforestation schemes and reforming forest management. These measures relate to all business sectors.

EBA Management Development Centre together with Sustinere and Responsible Future invite you to take part in the International Online-Lecture: How to Become a Climate Positive Business? During the lecture Marko Siller, partner at Sustinere (Estonia) and Klaudia Shevelyuk, founding partner at Change Agency Responsible Future (Ukraine) will show the context, the relevance of these issues for the Ukrainian and international companies, and practical suggestions to manage own climate impact.

Speakers: 

Marko Siller, Sustainability advisor, founder and partner of Sustinere, Estonia. 12+ years in sustainability advisory and corporate responsibility management. He has supported more than 100 businesses with a strategic view to sustainability and ESG management – materiality analysis, target setting, strategy creation and integration, sustainability reporting and due-diligence audit projects for listed, state-owned and other leading companies across the Baltics and in Nordics.

Klaudia Shevelyuk, Sustainability consultant, founding partner at Change Agency Responsible Future, partner with Sustinere in Ukraine. 14 years of executive experience in law firms and group of companies, successful experience in launching new brands, projects and products. Jointly with partners from Estonia and Sweden Klaudia consults leading Ukrainian and international companies on sustainability strategies and policies development and implementation, products life cycle assessment, stakeholders engagement as well as non-financial reporting.

Partners: Sustinere, Responsible Future 

Target Audience:

• Top and middle managers;
• Large and middle size companies;
• State owned companies;
• Finance/Logistics/Environmental/Sustainability/ CSR & Communications managers.

Topics under discussion:

• How to measure the climate impact of your organization or product?
• How to conduct a carbon footprint analysis and what methodologies and standards should be used?
• What is sufficient and science-based footprint reduction scenario on organizational level?
• How to reduce the businesses’ carbon footprint and where to start?
• What you should know about offsetting (compensating) the negative impact?
• Climate neutral or climate positive – where is the edge and why is it relevant for your business?

Registration is obligatory. To become a participant, please, click the “Register” button. Only the users of the EBA site can register at the event. Number of listeners is limited. Should you have any questions, please, write at [email protected] or call (044) 496-06-01. 

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