How business can tackle
deforestation
Innovation, implementation and impact – stop
deforestation in your corporate supply chain
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April 3rd-4th, 2017 Washington DC
www.innovation-forum.co.uk/deforestation-us-2017
A two-day discussion, debate and best practice forum,
with interactive working groups
This conference is designed to provide practical guidance for the
development and implementation of zero deforestation policies for business.
The content will allow you to see how your organization’s sustainability
strategy can best be applied to promote sustainable forestry in an impactful
manner to stop deforestation and protect your company’s reputation.
Some of the key points the conference is addressing include:
 From policy to implementation to impact: forests are still being
cleared, learn how to start making an impact now.
 Climate change and deforestation: learn how to tie it all together in
a single corporate sustainability strategy.
 New politics, new rules? Understand the implications of new US
administration on forest regulation.
 NGOs and campaigners: how to get ahead of the curve and stay out
of the NGO firing-line.
 Supply chain transparency and traceability: learn how new
technology can increase both.
Participate in practical, insightful sessions on:
 The latest best practice case studies from leading corporates.
 How best to engage and work with key stakeholders – in-depth
workshops on how to form partnerships with NGOs, government,
suppliers and competitors.
 Detailed commodity-specific workshop focused on the unique
challenges that pertain to the drivers of deforestation in palm oil,
paper and pulp, cattle and soy.
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Hear from these leading experts:
Rod Taylor
global forests director
World Resources Institute
Skip Krasny
sustainable forestry programs,
global sustainability
Kimberley Clark Corporation
Isabelle Aelvoet
global sustainability director
Mars Petcare
Christine Riley Miller
senior director, CSR
Dunkin’ Brands
Michael McManus
vice president, corporate and
government affairs
Asia Pulp & Paper
Sophie Beckham
manager, forest stewardship and
sustainability
International Paper
Paige Goff
vice president, sustainability
and business communications
Domtar
Karimah Hudda
global procurement
sustainability lead
Mondelez
Dawn Krueger
sustainability supply chain manager
3M
Founding member of TRANSITION500
Grant Rosoman
forest solutions team leader
Greenpeace
To reserve a pass visit www.innovation-forum.co.uk/deforestation-us-2017 or call +44 (0) 20 3780 7433
Speakers confirmed include:
Dawn Krueger
sustainability supply chain manager
3M
Michael McManus
VP, corporate and government affairs
Asia Pulp & Paper
Megan Weidner
VP, corporate responsibility and sustainability
Bunge North America
Jillian Gladstone
senior manager, forests
CDP
Nathalie Wallace
senior manager, investor program
Ceres
Frazer Lanier
environmental and social risk management associate
Citi
Paige Goff
VP, sustainability and business communications
Domtar
Christine Riley Miller
senior director, CSR
Dunkin’ Brands
Marcus Colchester
senior policy advisor
Forest Peoples Programme
Grant Rosoman
forest solutions team leader
Greenpeace
Sophie Beckham
manager, forest stewardship
and sustainability
International Paper
Skip Krasny
sustainable forestry programs,
global sustainability
Kimberley Clark Corporation
Jolyne Sanjak
chief program officer
Landesa
Isabelle Aelvoet
global sustainability director
Mars Petcare
Karimah Hudda
global procurement sustainability lead
Mondelez
Barbara Bramble
VP, international conservation and corporate strategies
National Wildlife Federation
Anita McBain
head of sustainability research
Permian Global
Olivia Watson
head of environmental and social issues
Principles for Responsible Investment
Lafcadio Cortesi
forest campaign director
Rainforest Action Network
Richard Donovan
senior vice president and vice president of forestry
Rainforest Alliance
Rachel Davis
managing director and co-founder
Shift
Stephen Donofrio
senior advisor
Supply Change (a Forest Trends project)
Ethan Budiansky
director, environment
World Cocoa Foundation
Charles Barber
director, forest legality initiative, forests program
World Resources Institute
Rod Taylor
global forests director
World Resources Institute
Day one: Monday, April 3rd 2017
We’re failing to protect forests, so what needs
to change to meet 2020 targets and long-term
deforestation commitments?
Despite all the meetings, frameworks and certification, forests are
being cleared at a staggeringly unsustainable rate and as things
stand they will diminish within 50 years. The current gradualist
approach of continued deliberation on policy and methodology is
failing to halt the process of forests clearance.
In this opening session, we provide a reflection on what the
last five years have achieved in terms of corporate and NGO
engagement with deforestation. We ask what has worked, what
hasn’t, and how this should inform the next five years in terms of
broad strategy to protect forests around the globe.
• NGO campaigners: are NGOs to blame for the lack of progress?
Have they focused too much on consumer-facing businesses
letting traders and financiers off?
• Politics: how will the conservative and populist political
movement sweeping western countries affect the protection
of forests?
• Corporates: are there any significant areas of progress that we
can say are working?
• Do we need a fundamental redirect or refocus of strategy
and what will it mean for each actor (corporate, NGO,
government)?
Climate change, carbon credits and
deforestation: can companies tie it all together?
Climate change is central to any meaningful discussion on forest
conservation. Forests are a carbon sink and help to maintain the
stability of the global atmosphere. Therefore, their protection and
restoration is essential to hitting climate change targets.
In this session, we help to clarify the implications of global
climate change efforts with deforestation. Is there a way that
companies can contribute to protecting forests and stopping
climate change through the same sustainability strategy?
• What is the role of forests in credible carbon offsetting?
• How can companies align their climate change policies with
their deforestation targets?
• There are a lot of questions around “cowboy” carbon credit
companies. So, what makes a credible, real carbon credit?
• What has COP22 meant for the zero deforestation and
corporate/NGO/government partnerships agenda?
• How can companies support national action plans in meeting
climate targets?
• Focused, open discussion
• Senior participants
• Candid dialogue
NGO and campaigners: what do they want and is
it fair?
The work of NGOs and campaigners acts as a major driver pushing
companies to engage with the issue of deforestation. NGO actions
can affect the reputation of a business and negatively impact
their market capitalization, customer perceptions and overall
commercial performance.
Understanding the NGO perspective and their plans is an
essential part of overall strategy to keep your company out of
the negative headlines. In this session, we will speak to three
of the most influential NGOs in the deforestation debate to get
their perspective on corporate performance and where their
campaigning will focus will focus through 2017 and 2018.
This session will also provide an objective, critical discussion on
corporate-NGO relationships and expectations.
Day one: Monday, April 3rd 2017
Commodity-specific discussions
In these highly-interactive, two-hour breakout sessions, we will split the conference into four tracks that focus on the key commodities
that drive deforestation in different jurisdictions. The purpose of the format is to capture the unique socio-economic, environmental
and cultural challenges of each commodity, the specific regional differences regarding where they are produced and how they can be
addressed.
Four experts will facilitate the sessions to tease out the most topical questions for each commodity and to encourage the audience to
discuss solutions.
Breakout one
Palm oil
Breakout two
Timber, paper and pulp
Breakout three
Cattle
Breakout four
Soy
The new frontier for palm oil
sustainability: how can palm
oil companies engage with
the labour risks that are rife in
farming?
Communication: how can
paper and pulp companies
better communicate what
sustainable forestry means to
customers?
How can companies
implement indirect suppliers
monitoring and drive zerodeforestation compliance
down the cattle supply chain?
How can we overcome
the unique supply chain
traceability challenges that
are present in the supply of
soy?
What is the best way to
communicate the issues
related to responsible paper
sourcing vs recycling?
Can simply expanding the
cattle and soy moratorium
to the Cerrado and other
grasslands in South America
lead to a stop in deforestation
and degradation?
Supplier engagement: how
can companies engage small,
private landowners to make
sustainable forestry practices
the norm?
Significant investors: how concerned are they
about deforestation really?
While the amount of environmentally-conscious capital is
growing, is it organized enough in terms of providing a strong
enough and clear enough message to companies? And, is it a
significant amount of capital to initiate real change?
In this session, we will hear from some of the biggest investors in
the world to gauge how concerned they are about deforestation
and climate change risks for companies in their portfolio and their
future investments.
Government engagement: how can companies
engage the most important and difficult
stakeholder?
Government engagement is crucial to bringing real change and
scale to any effort. This session will provide a pragmatic guide for
companies to understand the best way to work with governments.
We will look to reflect on different examples of government
engagement by companies on sustainability issues, how they have
fared and what lessons have emerged.
• How do we collectively demonstrate that delivering on the
zero-deforestation agenda is in local and national self-interest?
• What does the demise of the Indonesian Palm Oil Pledge tell
us about future private-sector-driven sustainability initiatives?
Questions?
If you have any questions or would like to discuss further being involved as a speaker, sponsor, marketing partner or
delegate, please contact:
Boris Petrovic | project director | Innovation Forum
Direct: +44 (0) 20 3780 7434 (London, UK time zone) | Email: [email protected]
Day two: Tuesday, April 4th 2017
The new High Carbon Stock approach: a
breakthrough or just another methodology?
Supply chain transparency and traceability: can
technology finally deliver?
How to bust through the jargon has become a major issue for
companies that want to get to grips with their deforestation risks,
not least around identifying the areas of forest that should be
protected and why.
In this two-part session, we debate the current approaches
that companies are using in palm oil, beef and timber to drive
transparency, traceability and transformation down their
respective value chains. We will then discuss the innovations in
technology that could be leading to breakthroughs in achieving
these.
Zero-deforestation, what it means and how to tackle it are difficult
questions for business, not least in establishing realistic and
impactful commitments. Companies that pledge to implement
something they do not fully understand leads to lethargy and
inaction.
In this session, we discuss the latest thinking and approach that
has come out of the high-carbon-stock convergence group of palm
oil producers, buyers and NGOs in creating a unified approach to
implementing no deforestation commitments.
Implementing a workplan to a zerodeforestation commitment: is anyone making
real progress?
One of the main criticisms of company engagement on
deforestation is that most are stuck at the policy phase, which
is the first and easiest thing to do. Writing a policy doesn’t stop
deforestation; acting on the commitment does. In this session,
we will ask a cross-industry panel of leading companies how
they have gone about bringing their commitments into their
operations.
We will have a pragmatic discussion on what actions companies
with a zero-deforestation commitment need to take, and the best
practices that are emerging as they get to grips with the reality of
implementation.
• What KPIs are companies using to monitor progress?
• What incentives and disincentives are in place to encourage
serious internal engagement?
• Who do you have to engage internally? Is it just about engaging
your procurement department?
• What will it take for sustainability “characteristics” to be as
integral to a commodity as its physical ones?
The second part of the session will give an overview of the key
technologies from parameter detection to satellite scanning of
forests to understand how these monitoring tools are faring in
piloting and implementation.
• What new technologies are being implemented by companies
to protect forests?
• How should this data and information be used by governments,
NGOs and companies to enforce compliance?
Collaboration and partnerships: how can
companies work both with NGOs and their
competitors to scale impact?
Working in partnership towards a shared goal can reduce the
burden for all, lower the cost for each partner and increase the
scale of impact relative to a disjointed, individualistic approach.
However, a lack of initiative, incompatibility of cultures and/
or competitive instincts mean that there are few examples of
companies properly engaging in effective collaborations with
NGOs and competitors at any scale on sustainability issues.
In this session, we look to break down the barriers that
prevent partnerships from forming on deforestation through
a participatory set of multi-stakeholder tasks that will ask
attendees to plan how to work with their potential partners.
• How do you define the partnership, the goals and who to work
with?
• How do you structure a multi-stakeholder initiative, where do
you begin, what drives it and how can you ensure it does not
run out of steam?
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Why attend?
Three reasons to attend
 150+ peers and colleagues – benchmark, debate and learn from the leading business practitioners the
effort to stop deforestation.
 40+ expert speakers sharing insights – you simply will not find a stronger, more focused collection of
leading businesses focused on tackling deforestation throughout company supply chains anywhere else.
 20+ hours of thought-provoking content – case studies, debate and group discussions to equip you with the
skills and insights to move your effort forward in the year ahead.
Leading companies attend our conferences
Innovation Forum has a track record of bringing together business to engage with the difficult questions in
sustainability by providing a platform for novel solutions, creative thinking and sharing best practice.
This conference is made for senior professionals from business, government, NGOs and the financial community.
Delegates are from CSR, sustainability, ethical trade, legal, procurement and supply chain, corporate affairs and
communications functions.
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 More time for genuine discussion –the agenda and timings have been built to provide time for in-depth debate
and meaningful exchange beyond introductions and superficial descriptive outlines. There will be a lot of experience
in the room and therefore we intend for the discussions to be participatory and interactive.
 The event is held under the Chatham House rule – this event is not intended as a PR platform – we hold
the event under a covenant of confidentiality to promote honest exchange and generate new thinking and solutions.
 Content is designed for action and practice – the event structure is designed to provide actionable tools
and practical insights that can be applied. We will also be sharing post event notes with all participants.
How business can tackle
deforestation
Innovation, implementation and impact – stop
deforestation in your corporate supply chain
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April 3rd-4th, 2017 Washington DC
www.innovation-forum.co.uk/deforestation-us-2017
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