{"id":38424,"date":"2021-03-18T09:44:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T16:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/?p=38424"},"modified":"2021-03-18T09:44:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T16:44:33","slug":"event-6th-annual-sustainability-week-the-economist-virtual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/event-6th-annual-sustainability-week-the-economist-virtual\/","title":{"rendered":"Event: 6th Annual Sustainability Week, The Economist (Virtual)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>March 22nd \u2013 25th 2021 | Virtual Event<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"section-heading\">Actionable insights, practical solutions<\/h3>\n<div class=\"section-para\">\n<p>Limiting global warming to 1.5\u00b0C will require unparalleled transformations to businesses, industries and supply chains. Investors and citizens demand action. Firms are responding: more and more are signing on to bold targets grounded in climate science. But while sustainability is far from languishing on the corporate periphery, far more effort is needed\u2015and fast.<\/p>\n<p>Over four days,\u00a0<em>The Economist<\/em>\u2019s sixth annual Sustainability Week will provide actionable insights and solutions to help businesses on their path to greater sustainability. We will explore how firms can effectively measure, analyse, transform and scale their sustainability initiatives. How can sufficient investment be unlocked? How can good data be generated? What incentives are needed to stimulate innovation?<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"section-heading\">Who should attend?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"section-para\">\n<ul>\n<li>Senior sustainability and CSR professionals from all industries<\/li>\n<li>Business leaders and executives (managers, directors, c-suite) from all industries<\/li>\n<li>Impact investors \/ responsible investors<\/li>\n<li>ESG reporting agencies<\/li>\n<li>Charities and organisations with an interest in sustainability issues<\/li>\n<li>Sustainability and climate academics e.g. researchers and professors<\/li>\n<li>Relevant government bodies, departments and policymakers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>New speaker announcement: Tony Blair<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tony Blair, e<span class=\"job-company\">xecutive chairman, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and former Prime Minister, Great Britain and Northern Ireland joins the Sustainability Week agenda<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Register Here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/events.economist.com\/sustainability-week\/\">https:\/\/events.economist.com\/sustainability-week\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8699,"featured_media":34103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4,40,19,21,7,12,13,8,9],"class_list":["post-38424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-alumni","tag-event","tag-local","tag-outside-pnw","tag-pnw","tag-portland-area","tag-recent-grads","tag-seattle-area","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8699"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38425,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38424\/revisions\/38425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}