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Our final day of London Climate Action Week featured collaborative sessions with a focus on climate science, the importance of embedding purpose in the identities of brands, and the deployment of AI in climate action. Freuds Group kicked off the day by hosting a breakfast panel, moderated by Maeve Campbell, Media Manager, University of Cambridge’s Sustainability Institute, which brought together climate scientists, sustainability experts, storytellers, and youth climate activists. The panel discussed the latest climate science data, the implications of reaching 2 degrees of warming as opposed to 1.5 degrees, and the impact this will have on the most vulnerable communities. Speakers included Joshua Amponsem, Co-Director, Youth Climate Justice Fund, and Michelle Li, Founder, clever carbon. Later in the afternoon, Global Goals Business Avengers, B Lab and Ocean Bottle co-hosted a roundtable to bring together some of the most ambitious purpose-led companies from the B Corp movement. The B Corp movement has led the way in redefining a more conscious form of capitalism. Yet B Corp companies comprise a tiny percentage of the global economy. The discussion focused on how large multinational corporates and their B Corp counterparts can take inspiration from each other’s work. Speakers included Priya C., Global Brand Director, WUKA, Galahad Clark, co-founder, Vivobarefoot and Jennie-Marie Larsen, Founder, The PI (Planetary Intelligence). The week was capped off by HSBC Asset Management hosting a reception to discuss how AI can act as an enabler in the energy transition and help improve the efficiency of renewable energy. Investors, asset owners, NGOs and representatives from the public sector explored the energy consumption of AI, the opportunities and challenges associated with using AI in the development of renewables, and the role that investors must play in driving the energy transition. The event was moderated by Christopher Marquis, Professor, Cambridge Judge Business School, and included remarks from Adam Elman, Head of Sustainability EMEA, Google, Michelle Hillman, Head of Responsible Investment and Strategy Execution, HSBC Asset Management, Scott McClurg, Head of Private Credit, HSBC Asset Management and Christophe Defert, Head of Climate Technology Investments, HSBC Asset Management. Thank you to all our partners, contributors, and attendees for a fantastic week at London Climate Action Week! #SDGs #Sustainabledevelopment #Goal 17 #LCAW

The third day of London Climate Action Week focused on accelerating decarbonisation, increasing funding for women-led climate ventures, addressing Scope 3 emissions, and harnessing AI for climate action.   HSBC began Day 3 with an expert panel discussion to explore how businesses can leverage capital to finance decarbonisation projects. Speakers included Yves Vercammen, Chief Corporate Officer, TES-H2, Ignacio de Calonje, Chief Investment Officer, Metals & Mining/Energy & Hydrogen Lead, IFC - International Finance Corporation, Kristina Schaferova, ESG Lead, Sizewell C and Jenn-Hui Tan, Chief Sustainability Officer, Fidelity Investments.   At the same time, Two Chicks, Third Derivative and Techstars Foundation hosted a breakfast roundtable to discuss how we can increase investment for female-founded ventures, which currently receive only 2% of VC funding. The event featured Alla Ouvarova, Co-CEO & Co-Founder, Two Chicks and Anna Richey, Co-CEO & Co-Founder, Two Chicks, and was moderated by Rushad Nanavatty, Managing Director, Third Derivative.   The The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. then hosted a roundtable on how to scale solutions which have an impact on Scope 3 emissions. Moderated by Dr. Arlo Brady, CEO, Freuds Group, the event was hosted by Sue Fox, UK&I President, The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. and featured remarks from Mark Jones, Chief Sustainability Officer, The Hut Group, and Sandeep Rana, Director of Citizenship and Sustainability, The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.   Thereafter, Climate Cardinals, the world’s largest youth-led climate advocacy organisation, hosted a networking session to highlight the vital role of youth activists in the climate movement. Co-hosted by Hikaru Wakeel Hayakawa, Vice President & Founding Director, Climate Cardinals and Sophia Suganuma, Deputy Chief Operations Officer, Climate Cardinals, attendees discussed strategies for bridging generational gaps and ensuring greater collaboration on climate issues.   The Climate Pledge then hosted a networking reception with current and prospective signatories, to provide attendees with the opportunity to connect with other companies, share ideas, and discuss how we can achieve progress towards net-zero by 2040. Speakers included Nils Moe, Lead, The Climate Pledge at Global Optimism, Kaan Yalkin, Partnerships & Engagement Lead, The Climate Pledge at Amazon, and Richard Watts, Deputy Chief of Staff to the Mayor of London.   Google closed our penultimate day with a private dinner, convening a group of leaders exploring the potential of AI in climate action. The evening was co-hosted by Adam Elman, Head of Sustainability EMEA, Google, Antonia Gawel, Global Director of Sustainability & Partnerships, Google, and Justin Keeble, Managing Director of Global Sustainability, Google Cloud and was moderated by Naomi Kerbel, Director of Communications, SEC Newgate UK.   Tomorrow is our final day of London Climate Action Week – stay tuned to hear about another packed day of programming.

Our second day at London Climate Action Week focused on representation in the carbon industry, circularity in fashion, sustainable farming practices, raising capital for nature-based investments, and exploring UK-specific climate solutions. Seagrass and Women In Carbon began the day by co-hosting a networking breakfast to bring together and empower women working in the carbon industry. Speakers included Jacqueline Isabelle Hadasch, Global Lead, Carbon Mitigation Strategy, Climate & Sustainability, E.ON and Meghan Edge, Head of Carbon Investments, Ripple. The Business of Fashion hosted an intimate roundtable on how the industry can accelerate the transition to a circular economy. Bridging the gap between ambition and action, this event united industry leaders, entrepreneurs and investors and focused on how fashion organisations can mobilise more capital and foster more cross-sector collaboration for their sustainability efforts. The event was moderated by Sarah Kent, Chief Sustainability Correspondent, The Business of Fashion, and speakers included Peter Majeranowski, Founder & CEO, Circ Earth; Baroness Kingsmill CBE, Board and Sustainability Lead, Inditex, and Dounia Wone, Chief Impact Officer, Vestiaire Collective. Goals House then hosted a panel discussion on sustainable farming practices, entitled “it’s not the cow, but the how; the essential role of livestock in regenerative food systems.” As well as discussing the merits of a plant-based diets, the panel explored the essential role livestock play in regenerative food systems, given farm animals are responsible for restoring biodiversity and enhancing soil health. Speakers included Patrick Holden, Welsh farmer and CEO, Sustainable Food Trust, Camilla Fayed, Founder, Farmacy; George Lamb, Co-Founder, Wildfarmed and Aadith Moorthy, Founder & CEO, Boomitra and 2023 The Earthshot Prize winner. The Sustainable Markets Initiative then hosted a panel reception on how we can unlock nature’s untapped economic power, featuring Ron O’Hanley, CEO, State Street, Charlie Nunn, CEO, Lloyds Banking Group, Laura Barlow, Group Head of Sustainability, Barclays and Robert Spencer, Global Head of ESG Advisory Services, AECOM. This event shined a spotlight not only on the urgent need to mobilise more capital, but on the role that nature can play as a profitable financial instrument. Closing out the second day, Seagrass hosted a dinner to explore the climate finance solutions and carbon policy frameworks needed in the UK to encourage private sector investment in decarbonisation projects. Hosted by Thomas Birr, Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, E.ON and Ely Sandler, Policy Advisor, Seagrass and Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, the event featured remarks from Ian Corfield, Senior Business Advisor, The Labour Party and special guest Rt Hon Sir Alok Sharma KCMG, COP26 - UN Climate Change Conference President. Stay tuned for another packed day of programming tomorrow!   #SDGs #LCAW #Goal17

Following a successful week at Cannes, Goals House returned to our home base for a busy London Climate Action Week programme! To kickstart the week, Goals House and Climate Fresk hosted an interactive climate workshop. Attendees from various sectors turned climate science into a team game, and participants had the opportunity to work together to connect the causes and effects of the climate crisis. This empowering workshop, based on the IPCC reports, built participants’ knowledge of climate science and highlighted solutions to existing problems we face. Our opening reception was hosted by Ellen Jackowski, Chief Sustainability Officer, Mastercard, and Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan and Co-Chair of C40 Cities. The event, which focused on urban mobility and transitioning to more sustainable cities, also featured speakers Chapin Flynn, Senior Vice President, Transit & Urban Mobility, Mastercard; and Selwin Hart, Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on Climate and Just Transitions and Assistant Secretary-General of the Climate Action, United Nations, and performances by spoken-word artist, poet, rapped and podcast host, George The Poet Limited, and climate campaigner & Grammy-nominated DJ Jayda G. Selwin Hart and Sadiq Khan stressed the importance of cities working together on a global scale, and the urgency we face in addressing the climate crisis. As Sadiq Khan stated, “1.5 degrees isn’t a goal, it’s not a target, it’s a physical limit. We are hanging by the barest of threads for staying within that limit.” While speakers all stressed the critical need for immediate action, there was also a sense of optimism in the room with committed stakeholders from various sectors all gathered together to work towards common goals. The Earthshot Prize then closed off the evening by hosting a dinner to kick off their London Fellowship Week. For the first time, the 2023 Earthshot Prize finalists and winners are in London for London Climate Action Week, where they are experiencing a week packed with events and networking opportunities that can help them scale their businesses. At the dinner, guests toasted the family they have found within The Earthshot Prize and spoke to supporting each other’s success and growth, serving as a reminder for the value of partnership in fostering transformative change. Stay tuned for more from our packed week of programming! #SDGs #LCAW #sustainabledevelopment #Goal17

To round off an amazing week at Goals House Cannes, Leonid Sudakov President, Growth, Digital and Platforms, Mars Petcare, Sue Allchurch, Chief, Outreach and Engagement, United Nations Global Compact , Marc de Swaan Arons, Founder, Institute for Real Growth and moderator Bennett Richardson, General Manager and Global Public Head of Affairs at Semafor co-convened a powerful conversation on the need for the marketing industry to redefine itself - to realign its North Star with delivering less 'stuff' and more meaningful value to consumers. In the room were representatives from across the value chain - from corporates and advertisers to policy and media - convened to explore how the discipline can both stay relevant in an age of industry depowering and fragmentation and reimagine its impact to place the customer and societal value at its heart.    At the end of Goals House Cannes, we want to say a massive thank you to all our valued partners and contributors for collaborating with us and driving us forward - to a more inclusive and sustainable future.   Next week, we're looking forward to Goals House London Climate Action Week, where we'll convene industry leaders, policymakers, non-profits and activists in an effort to accelerate comprehensive action on climate.

Day 3 at #GoalsHouse Cannes: a day dedicated to discussing behaviour change and AI. On our third day, Julia Bainbridge, Founder, Freuds+ chaired a roundtable to explore the role and responsibility of brands which are delivering behaviour change for social impact. With a focus on solutions, the wide-ranging discussion featured remarks from - among others - Nishma Patel Robb 🪩⚡️, President of WACL (Women in Advertising & Communications Leadership ), President of the History of Advertising Trust, Fellow of the IPA and a Fellow of The Marketing Society and Ed Couchman, Head of Sales, UK & Northern Europe, Spotify. Thereafter, EY and Adobe convened a roundtable which examined how marketeers can embrace AI to aid innovation and drive impact, particularly in areas such as equality and sustainability. Co-hosted by Laurence Buchanan, Global Customer & Growth Leader, EY and Helen Bentley, Partner, EY Seren, the event featured Eric Hall, Chief Marketing Officer of Digital Experience, Adobe and was moderated by Matthew Garrahan, Head of Digital Platforms and Columnist, Financial Times. Subscribe to our newsletter for more information regarding our events and stay tuned for more this week! #CannesLions

Day 2 at #GoalsHouse Cannes: a day focused on storytelling, collaboration, and disruption. The day began with the Earth Public Information Collaborative (EPIC) hosting a roundtable on “The Most Important Brief” - a global campaign to align brands, the creative community, global media, storytellers, and the science community around Goal 13: Climate Action. The discussion covered the primary drivers of behaviour change and how EPIC is set up to scale sustainability messages globally. Moderated by Natalia Vega, CMO, Earth Public Information Collaborative, the event was convened by Tim Kelly, Executive Director, EarthHQ-Global Commons Alliance, and featured remarks from Katja Iversen, CEO, Museum of the United Nations-UN Live and Christopher Moscardi, Marketing Director, New Zero World Samantha Barry, Editor-in-Chief, Glamour, and Deborah Joseph, European Editorial Director, Glamour then co-hosted a lunch exploring how advocating for empowerment, equality, and consent can revolutionise societal norms. With contributions from İpek Ersavaş, Vice President/General Manager, MAC Cosmetics and toofacedcosmetics.com, UK & Ireland, and Dr. Rebecca Swift, Senior Vice President, Creative, Getty Images, the group discussed the importance of brands going beyond their core purpose or CSR initiatives in pursuit of change. Thereafter, Project 17, Toptal and WeTransfer hosted a lively panel discussion, which was moderated by Gail Gallie, Founder, Project 17 and featured Taso Du Val, CEO, Toptal, Damian Bradfield, President, WeTransfer, Leah Davis, CMO, SailGP and Ndubuisi Uchea, CEO and Founder, Word on the Curb. The discussion focused on how we can accelerate progress towards the achievement of the Global Goals, recognising the high degree of disruption this will require. In the evening, EY co-convened a dinner with the Royal College of Art to discuss the power of design in unlocking and accelerating change, particularly in industries which are hard to abate and highly regulated. Industry leaders explored the unique role of design in finding the sweet spot between commercial growth and sustainability. Hosted by Peter Neufeld, Head of Business Transformation, Innovation & Experience Design, EY and Nicolás Rebolledo Bustamante, Senior Tutor in Service Design, Royal College of Art, the event was moderated by Raquel Bubar, Managing Director, T Brand Studio International at The New York Times. Day 2 of Goals House Cannes closed with Cannes Lions Green Alliance Partners - HOPE Hydration, Mio and dentsu (and their media agencies Carat, dentsu X and iProspect) - hosting a dinner focused on radical collaboration. The evening facilitated new connections between activists, social entrepreneurs, communicators, and corporate leaders, with the discussion centred around the importance of partnerships in the protection of our planet. Subscribe to our newsletter for more information regarding our events and stay tuned for more this week! #CannesLions

Day 1 at #GoalsHouse Cannes: a day of insightful discussions and powerful voices. In the opening roundtable, EY and Seagrass explored the role of marketing leaders in driving societal change. The event was chaired by John Rudaizky, Chief Brand and Marketing Officer, EY, and featured contributions from Hayleigh Ford, Global Head of Marketing & Communications, Seagrass; Amy Brachio, Global Vice Chair Sustainability, EY and co-chair, S30; Matthew Freud, Chairman, Freuds Group and Board Member of the Sustainable Markets Initiative; Anthony Guerrieri, Global Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Mars; and Michelle M., Initiative Lead - Planet Pledge, WFA. Afterwards, Deborah Joseph, European Editorial Director, Glamour hosted a panel which examined the evolving landscape of gender representation and inclusivity in the gaming industry. The panel featured Lucy Yeomans, Founder, DREST and Carla Harris, Global Gaming Content Manager, TikTok. The day was capped off with Google and Project Everyone's annual Goal 5 dinner, which was hosted by Lorraine Twohill, Chief Marketing Officer, Google and included remarks from Karlie Kloss, Founder, Kode With Klossy; Annemarie Hou, Executive Director, United Nations Office for Partnerships; and Kate Garvey, Co-Founder of Project Everyone. Moderated by Samantha Barry, Americas Editorial Director, Glamour, the dinner explored how we can accelerate progress on gender equality as we enter the second half of the Global Goals - with an emphasis on women’s voices, leadership, and the potential of AI.   Subscribe to our newsletter for more information regarding our events and stay tuned for more this week! #CannesLions 🌍🎮

We are officially one week from London Climate Action Week!    Over the last five years, LCAW has become one of the world’s largest independent climate change events, positioning London at the forefront of climate leadership and expertise.   Convening our community at our headquarters, we’re proud Goals House is a key part of the week’s programme. Our packed schedule will feature impact-orientated roundtables, panels, and receptions, with partners focusing on a wide array of critical issues - including the energy transition, regenerative agriculture, carbon capture, circularity in cities, sustainable fashion, carbon finance, the potential of AI, and the role of youth activism.    Let us know if you’ll be in town! 

“Over 80% of the ocean remains unmapped, unobserved, and unexplored.” The theme of last week’s World Ocean’s Day was “Awakening New Depths”, which was accompanied by a global call to action to further explore our oceans. In our latest thought piece, Will Pearson, Founder & Co-CEO of Ocean Bottle, reflects on the “Missing Plastic Paradox” – the discrepancy between the quantity of plastic being discarded into the ocean, and the plastic accounted for in ocean surface waters, shorelines, and the seafloor. A valued partner of Goals House, Ocean Bottle is committed to tackling the use of single use plastics with its products - as well as deepening our understanding of the extent of the plastic crisis. Supported by Ocean Bottle, the Ocean Science Expedition this year will take a team of researchers through the Northwest Passage in the Arctic Ocean, and enable the collection of invaluable data on marine microplastics, ocean carbon dioxide, oxygen levels, seawater temperature, and salinity. We’re proud to share that the expedition team will be led by polar explorer Keith Tuffley and will receive scientific counsel from Professor Dr. Johan Rockström, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research – valued members of our Goals House community. Please read the full article to find out more -> 🌊 👏