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Summit explores how going green can benefit your business


AGENDA


• Welcome and opening address Scott Knowles, Chamber Chief Executive


• The rise of the pro-environmental business activity in the region: trend overview and policy implications Dr Fred Paterson, ERDF Low Carbon Business Network Project Lead and Dr Polina Baranova, Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management, University of Derby Business School and ERDF Low Carbon Business Network


• Solving the productivity and clean growth puzzle Martin Tufft, Director for the Internet of Things (IoT), BT plc


• In conversation with Martin Rigley, MBE, Managing Director of Lindhurst Engineering


The summit will focus on clean growth and sustainability


This year’s free-to-attend summit on 6 March, in Nottingham, is delivered in partnership with the ERDF Low Carbon Business Network (hosted by the University of Derby). It will build on last year’s successful event and will focus on how environmental sustainability and clean growth is now so much more than the need to fulfil regulatory compliance. This year’s summit brings


together a host of renowned professionals in this area from a range of prominent organisations – including BT, Siemens, Lindhurst Engineering and Uber.


Through a series of keynote speakers, panel discussions and workshops, the summit will: • Explore why clean growth should be intrinsic to any business growth strategy


• Link productivity and performance gains with environmental sustainability


• Provide detail on how to develop and grow a sustainable business profile


• Discuss the benefits of getting it right, and the consequences of getting it wrong


• Hear from exemplar organisations on why they build sustainability into their business plans and future vision – exploring the wide range of business benefits


• Provide delegates with a range of information about the support available to assist in achieving clean growth goals


Independent analysis undertaken


by the University of Derby Business School (DBS), based on surveys conducted by the Chamber over a


three-year period, shows the number of businesses supplying low carbon and environmental goods and services (LCEGS) across the East Midlands is growing. In fact, 24% of companies


surveyed in 2017 deriving some degree of turnover from LCGES, compared to 16% in 2015, with 12% of businesses generating more than 20% of their turnover from it in 2017, compared with only eight per cent in 2015. Furthermore, Office for National


Statistics figures released in May 2017 show that the LCEGS sector contributed £62.5bn-worth of output to the UK economy in 2015, growing 27% between 2010 and 2015, and contributing around 335,000 FTE jobs in 2015. It’s clear that business is waking


up to the range of benefits that being green can bring to the table, in areas such as reducing energy costs, reducing waste, bringing innovative products to market, raising brand awareness, being procurement compliant and making an organisation an attractive proposition for the recruitment of new employees. As highlighted in HM


Government Clean Growth Strategy, economic growth has to go hand-in-hand with environmental protection, this is why clean growth is put in the centre of its current Industrial Strategy, with a mission to improve quality of life as well as increasing economic prosperity. It is also worth deferring to the


recent UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, which makes for uneasy reading. The world’s leading climate scientists warn that there are only a


business network February 2019 25 • Refreshments and exhibitors


• Breakout, choice of workshops, providing detail of a range of business support opportunities


• Supporting the transition to a low carbon business model through innovative technology Thomas O'Reilly, Siemens plc


• Transportation as part of the green agenda, building a sustainable business model Shammi Raichura, Regional Cities Lead, Central UK, Uber


will significantly heighten the risks of drought, floods, extreme heat and poverty for hundreds of millions of people. What is clear from a business


Guest speaker Martin Rigley MBE


dozen years for global warming to be kept to below 1.5°C, beyond which even half a degree increase


and environmental perspective is that the option to stand still has long since passed. The business community must act on its promises to preserve and enhance the natural environment to provide a legacy for generations to come. This summit asks how our business community can become a flagship example of this endeavor.


Places at the Sustainability Summit are free but limited. To book your place, visit bit.ly/EMC_Sustainability


“The opportunity for people and business across the country is huge. The low carbon economy could grow 11% per year between 2015 and 2030, four times faster than the projected economy as a whole”


Greg Clark, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy – Clean Growth Strategy.


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