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The Business Case for Sustainability Disclosure
This event was recorded on Wednesday, July 20, 2011
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Many organizations today find that financial reporting alone no longer satisfies the needs of investors, governments, supply-chain partners, and other stakeholders for information about overall organizational performance. This diverse group of stakeholders is now requiring companies to become increasingly transparent with their sustainability business practices and accountable to their performance targets.
Today, 2,500 organizations around the world now measure and disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and climate change strategies through CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project), and over 1,400 organizations have published a GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) based sustainability report. Additionally, 95% of the most sustainable companies listed on both the Corporate Knights Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations and the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI) use SAP software to help run their business.
This provides a tremendous opportunity to impact the world’s leading companies as they further embed sustainability into their business strategies to unlock new opportunities through better transparency and accountability into their operations.
Join Patrick Crawford, Development Manager, CDP, Bastian Buck, Technical Development Manager of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and Neil Krefsky, Marketing Director of Sustainability Reporting and Analytics Solutions at SAP, for an insightful discussion on the business case for sustainability disclosure. In this webcast you will hear how best in class companies are leveraging CDP disclosure, the GRI reporting framework and information technology to transform reporting obligations into a competitive advantage.
Learning Points:- Gain an understanding of the tangible business benefits of sustainability disclosure
- Understand the best practices, guidance and support CDP and GRI provide organizations to help make sustainability reporting a value based standard practice
- Hear how SAP software can enable better and more efficient sustainability disclosure and analysis
Speakers:
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 Patrick Crawford
Development Manager
CDP
While changing careers from Head of Business Development at the UK’s Telegraph Media Group, Patrick worked as a volunteer for CDP - from researching emissions intensity to requesting disclosure from S&P 500 corporations – and in 2008 joined the new CDP Supply Chain Program. He moved on to program manage, with Accenture, Microsoft and SAP, the upgrade of the CDP systems to create the de facto global climate change data and reporting platform. His aim is to integrate this information into business solutions as we head towards a low carbon future. Patrick has a MBA from London Business School and completed the Bath MSc in Responsibility and Business Practice.
 Bastian Buck
Technical Development Manager
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
Bastian Buck is the Technical Development Manager for the Global Reporting Initiative where he currently focuses on the further improvement of the GRI Reporting Framework. His recent project portfolio includes the management and facilitation of multi-stakeholder expert Working Groups on Report Content and Materiality, Community Impacts, Gender, Human Rights Reporting as well as Supply Chain.
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 Neil Krefsky
Marketing Director of Sustainability Reporting and Analytics Solutions
SAP
Neil Krefsky has been the Solutions Marketing Director for Sustainability Reporting and Analytics at SAP since 2009. Neil joined SAP in 1998 and has worked in several roles in solutions marketing, business development, sales, and consulting. During his tenure at SAP, he has gained deep product expertise and helped customers achieve significant business benefits by understanding and using solutions for sustainability, enterprise performance management, risk and compliance, and financials. Before joining SAP, he held several global enterprise professional positions including public accounting as a CPA, software consulting, corporate venture capital advisor and business consulting.
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