Partner Events

ISSP has partnered with these sustainability-related organizations to promote each other's events. ISSP members may receive discounts at these events.

Events are listed in chronological order.  Click on the conference name or scroll down to read more.

• China Carbon Trading Forum, February 16-17, Shanghai
• Objection Handling for Sustainability Professionals, February 16, Toronto
• Climate Leadership Conference, February 29 - March 1, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
• GLOBE 2012 Conference, March 14 - 16, Vancouver, British Columbia
• CARE-North Final Conference,  March 20-21, Bremen, Germany
• Management and Leadership Skills for Environmental Health and Safety Professionals, March 26-28, Boston
• Innovating for Sustainability, Harvard Business School Executive Education, May 20-23, London, England
• Strategies For A New Economy, June 8 - 10, Bard College, Annadale-on-Hudson, NY
• Corporate Social Responsibility, October 17–20, Harvard Business School Executive Education, Boston, MA US

 

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China Carbon Trading Forum 2011

February 16-17, Shanghai,China

The gloom of Kyoto Protocol's second commitment period also made the future of CDM full of uncertainty, which also made domestic CDM market once dwindling. Although no one knows for sure that how will the CDM function after 2012, some practitioners still get the hope that the market will be booming again in the future.

China Carbon Trading Forum 2011’s held, is to adapt to China's current demand, speed up the adjustment of energy structure, actively develop low-carbon energy, to build a stable, economic, clean and safe energy supply system, in order to carbon trading as an opportunity, energy security and the sustainable development of economy and society.
Organizer: Being-Consulting China

Endorsers: Shanghai Environment and Energy Exchange     
Tianjin Climate Exchange      
Beijing Energy Exchange I
SSP

Website: www.carbon-trade2011.com
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Objection Handling for Sustainability Professionals: Overcome challenges, obstacles, resistance and barriers. 

February 16, 2012, Toronto

A unique opportunity for business professionals to come together and share challenges, successes and best practices with regard to moving sustainability forward in an organization.

Are you able to drive your sustainability ideas forward in your organization or are you encountering resistance? Are you achieving the best possible outcome at your meetings? Do you ever wonder if you could have achieved a better result and why your ideas weren’t resonating with your colleagues? Suppose you find yourself on an elevator with a senior executive and courageously decide that this is your opportunity to convince him/her to integrate sustainability into his/her core business strategies. How would you open the conversation? When he/she throws objections at you, how will you respond? What’s your value proposition?

During this workshop, ISSP Hall of Fame founding member Dr. Bob Willard will share proven strategies and techiques on how to overcome apathy, indifference, fear, and cynicism when trying to move a sustainability initiative forward in an organization. The skills will be equally relevant and timely for both internal change agents and external sustainabillty consultants. Communication strategist and author John Marshall Roberts will join via videoconference to share his insights on how a better understanding of your audience's "worldview" will help you win over the hearts and minds of even the most commited skeptics.

New Facilitators Just Announced:

• Tom Heintzman (Co-Founder and President, Bullfrog Power)
• Antony Marcil (Past President, FSC)
• Nelson Switzer (President, asherleaf consulting)
• Jim Harris (Author/Change Agent)
• Wesley Gee (Sustainability, Stantec)
• Pamela Divinsky (Director, Junxion Strategy)
• Matt Loose (Director, Stratos Consulting)
• John Coyne (Vice President, Legal & External Affairs, Unilever Canada Inc.)
• Brett Wills (Senior Sustainability Coach, High Performance Solutions)

For more information visit http://bit.ly/u1eMI6

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Climate Leadership Conference

February 29 - March 1, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

The first annual Climate Leadership Conference will be held from February 29-March 1, 2012 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The conference will bring together leaders from business, government and academic institutions, and the non-profit community interested in exchanging ideas and information on how to address climate change while simultaneously running their operations more competitively and sustainably.

Conference attendees will offer and hear climate related solutions on topics including:

• Leveraging Clean Energy Opportunities

• Managing Climate Risks and Building Resilience

• Supply Chain Strategies

• Disclosures and Questionnaires

• Setting and Achieving GHG Reduction Goals

• Education & Engagement Strategies

• Making the Business Case for Climate Response

For more information visit http://www.climateleadershipconference.org/

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GLOBE Conference 2012

March 14-16, Vancouver, British Columbia

The GLOBE(TM) series of conferences and trade fairs is North America's largest and longest-running international gathering of senior representatives from the public, private and NGO sectors involved in the business of sustainability, energy and the environment.

Recognized as the world's most influential and prestigious international environment industry event, GLOBE brings together leaders of business and government to discuss current trends and to showcase innovative technology solutions for the world's environmental problems.

Government decisions makers, corporate executives, and environmental technology innovators engage in high-level dialogues about pressing environmental issues such as corporate sustainability, energy and climate change, finance, and building better cities. We have brought in a host of well-respected individuals to help make the business case for eco-efficiency, including HRH Prince Philippe of Belgium, former Prime Minister Paul Martin, Maurice Strong, Klaus Töepfer, John Prescott, Mark Moody-Stuart, Amory Lovins and Ray Anderson.

For more information, visit http://2012.globeseries.com/.

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CARE-North Final Conference

March 20-12, Bremen, Germany

The Carbon Responsible Transport Strategies for the North Sea Area, 20 and 21 March 2012, Bremen, Germany.

CARE-North Final Conference, taking place in Bremen, Germany from 20 - 21 March 2012 will focus on innovative carbon reduction strategies for urban and regional transport. This will be the project’s final conference after two successful years. The project sought to maintain and improve accessibility in the North Sea Area in a more carbon-responsible way, within the context of climate change and declining fossil fuels. The conference will present the outcomes of the CARE-North project and discuss comprehensive and practical approaches, centred on alternative fuels, the affordability of public transport and the potential of car-sharing. Moreover, international experts will offer an insight into the global perspective of urban transportation, examining how to bring together trends and necessities, the achievement of EU 20-20-20 energy targets and the considerable challenges to be overcome before the Rio+20 conference. Site visits will allow participants to discover, first-hand, Bremen’s pioneering advances in car-sharing, public transport and cycling enhancements. In addition Dr. Joachim Lohse, Senator for the Environment, Construction and Transport, will welcome participants at a reception at Bremen’s  historic city hall. This will be a great opportunity to discover the latest findings from cities and learn from leading experts in sustainable mobility. Attendance to the event is free of charge but places are limited so early booking is advised.

Registration for the event will open in early 2012. For more information please visit the Conference Website: http://www.care-north.eu/ or contact carenorth.2012@iclei.org
 

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Management and Leadership Skills for Environmental Health and Safety Professionals


March 26 – 28, 2012
, Boston, MA USA

This Harvard program provides oversight and focused skill building in the critical areas of leadership and management development with the objective of bridging the gap between EHS technical skills and leadership skills essential for achieving organizational objectives that meet environmental management system standards and sustainability requirements. Additional information can be found at https://ccpe.sph.harvard.edu/EHS-Leadership. Upon Completion, Participants Will Be Able To:

•    Develop clear objectives, goals, strategies, and measures for integrating health, safety, and environment into the culture of their organization
•    Create specific methods for "selling" occupational health, safety, and environmental initiatives to organizational decision makers
•    Employ listening skills to develop more effective negotiation and conflict resolution skills
•    Establish measurable expectations and accountability for their services
•    Manage time effectively and coach others in this practice
•    Write and speak clearly and concisely in the language of the customer
•    Identify the right thing to do and prioritize work that is both urgent and important
•    Meet common challenges with proven techniques in risk communication
•    Use the most appropriate management style for every situation
•    Integrate sustainability objectives into EHS management systems

Highlighted Management Topics Include:
•    Program Highlights
•    Performance measures, i.e., the balanced scorecard
•    Negotiation and conflict resolution
•    Managing and motivating people
•    Listening as a communication skill
•    Effective business communication
•    Strategic and business planning for results
•    Time management and utilization
•    Regulatory affairs management
•    Professional ethics and legal issues of management
•    Risk communication
•    Building EHS management systems

To register, visit: https://ccpe.sph.harvard.edu/register.cfm?CSID=LMS0312
 

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Innovating for Sustainability

Harvard Business School Executive Education

May 20–23, 2012, London, England

 

Corporate decision makers often struggle to balance investors' expectations of financial performance and the demands of other stakeholders focused on nonfinancial— environmental, social, and governance—performance. In this new Harvard Business School (HBS) Executive Education program, you'll discover how leading companies are developing innovative products, processes, and business models to meet both financial and nonfinancial objectives.

 

Today, most companies treat financial performance and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance as separate domains. However, facing increasing pressure—and in some countries, government mandates—to act with greater transparency on ESG issues, executives must develop a strategy that creates value for both shareholders and society, while finding ways to align financial reporting and ESG reporting.

 

Offering insights from groundbreaking research, HBS faculty will lead you in an exploration of companies on the leading edge of ESG practices. In this program, you will examine the approaches used by organizations in diverse industries to:

 

• Design sustainability strategies tailored to the business

• Innovate in ways that generate both financial and nonfinancial benefits

• Measure and report on these efforts to investors and other stakeholders

 

To apply or for more information, visit www.exed.hbs.edu/programs/ifse/

 

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Strategies For A New Economy

June 8-10, 2012, Bard College, Annadale-on-Hudson, NY

The Strategies for a New Economy conference will feature 12 conference tracks each with 7 workshops and special guest plenary speakers. The track themes represent the positive spirit of the conference and the optimism that a new kind of economy, reflecting our highest aspirations as a people, is possible.

1.  Visioning and Modeling the New Economy: Shared Prosperity within
Planetary Limits
2.  Measuring Well Being: Alternative Indicators of Wealth and Progress
3.  Banking and Financing a New Economy: Scale, Criteria, Innovation
4.  Re-building Local Economies:  Engines for Resilience
5.  Re-imagining Ownership: Coops, Stakeholders, Corporate Structure
6. Transforming Money: Structuring, Issuing, and Valuing New Mediums of
Exchange
7.  Sharing the Commons: Identifying, Allocating, and Restoring
8.  Messaging a New Economy: Education, Media, Public Campaigns
9.  Forging Justice for All: Economic Security, Equity, and Jobs in the New
Economy
10. Empowered Youth: Mandating a New Economy
11. Responsive Government for a New Economy: Politics as if People and
Planet Mattered
12. Moving Beyond Consumerism: Plentitude, Sufficiency, and Mindful
Consumption

Each theme will have its own website with resource material reflecting some of the most innovative new thinking and experimentation in the field. Conference registration opens mid-January.  Conference workshops will be videoed and added to the web pages to further develop what will be a permanent resource of videos, papers, projects, and organizational links representing the best strategies for a new economy.

For more information, visit http://bit.ly/u4aUv1

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Corporate Social Responsibility

Harvard Business School Executive Education
 October 17–20, 2012 Boston, MA US

To thrive in the long term, companies must examine and refine their roles in society—the impact they have on people, the environment, and the economy. The Corporate Social Responsibility program offered by Harvard Business School (HBS) Executive Education enhances your ability to set priorities, measure results, and communicate the value of CSR efforts across your organization. Specifically, you will learn how to:
    •    Create competitive advantage through CSR
    •    Assess risks and opportunities before making capital investments or other business decisions
    •    Align CSR strategies with organizational goals and capabilities
    •    Evaluate current initiatives and consolidate efforts around key objectives
    •    Present a business case for CSR initiatives
    •    Implement CSR at all levels of the company
    •    Understand how CSR directly affects current and future regulatory practices
    •    Foster successful interaction with key internal and external stakeholders as well as governments and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
 
This program is specifically designed for senior executives who direct corporate social responsibility programs or oversee departments such as public affairs, philanthropy, sustainability, environmental health and safety, or community affairs. Senior officers with profit-and-loss responsibilities will benefit from attending.
By integrating social enterprise-related research, teaching, and activities into daily life at HBS, the Social Enterprise Initiative plays a critical role in supporting the School's mission to educate leaders who make a difference in the world. There is more to business success than simply creating value for shareholders.
To apply or for more information, visit www.exed.hbs.edu/programs/csr/

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