SHINE SUMMIT 2018 NET POSITIVE
Handprinting and Net Positive: Accomplishments and Directions
The past 3 years have seen pioneering work in developing and applying methods to assess an enterprise's positive sustainability impacts, and to set these in the context of its footprints which are simultaneously being reduced. The SHINE Summit 2018 will take serious stock of both our achievements and the road ahead. What have we learned and gained? What do we need and why? Our goal is to size up the full potential of Net Positive and to identify the most urgent steps to take in order to realize it together.
This year' Net Positive summit consist of four plenary sessions, each with a combination of presentation and dialogue among panelists and attendees.
Agenda
Breaks, lunch, reception and dinner provided.
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8:30 – 9:00 Welcome Randolph Kirchain, Research Director, MIT Material Systems Lab
Co-Director, MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub
Gregory A. Norris, Director, SHINE@MIT
9:00 – 10:30 Handprinting and Net Positive: What We’ve Achieved So Far
Some leading, pioneering companies have made progress in creating handprints, measuring them,and using them in assessment towards net positivity. Some have also had success at engaging employees and other stakeholders in this quest; some have made progress towards scalability ofbottom-up reporting to support company-wide assessment. We'll hear about successes, lessons, value derived, impacts achieved, and near-term directions from these pioneers.
Jane Abernethy, Chief Sustainability Officer, Humanscale
Connie Sasala, Global Director of Sustainability, Eaton Corporation
Rami Vagal, Sustainability Manager, Mohawk Group
Gale Tedhams, Director of Sustainability, Owens Corning
Moderator: Jeremy Gregory, Executive Director, MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub
10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:30 Handprinting and Net Positive: Promoting Human Rights and the SDGs
Human rights represent one of businesses’ greatest opportunities to grow their positive impacts. This session will explore frameworks for handprint creation, data for social impact measurement, strategies for augmenting human rights achievements and the place of collaboration in creating sustainable impacts and contributing to the SDGs.
Sancia Dalley, Senior Vice President, Partnerships, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
Lina Azuero, Corporate Sustainability Strategist, Dell
Sara Blackwell, Advisor, SHIFT
Moderator: Catherine Benoit Norris, VP Social Sustainability, New Earth
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 3:00 Beyond GHGs: Applying Net Positive When Impact Context Matters
The footprints and handprints of all actors take place across causal chains that are widely distributed across space and even in time. Reductions in emissions of GHGs in one location by one actor clearly and equally compensate for the emissions of another actor in another location. But for other impact categories such as water depletion, biodiversity, and human health, context is part of the impact equation. And when different human populations are affected, distributional considerations arise. This session will explore the complexities and potential solutions to address and pursue Net Positive for impacts where context matters.
Anne-Marie Boulay, Project Manager, Water Use in LCA, CIRAIG
Specialist on Water in Net Positive (Quantis, WRI, invited)
Christian Bauer,Corporate Sustainability Expert, SIG
Specialist on Ecosystem Services (invited)
Moderator: Elsa Olivetti, Atlantic Richfield Associate Professor of Energy Studies, MIT
3:00 – 3:30 Lunch
3:30 – 5:00 Handprinting and Net Positive: Achieving Full Potential
Being able to augment footprint reduction and reporting with pursuit of, and reporting about, positive impacts is a powerful goal for a host of reasons. What are the keys to its success? What do we need to achieve in order to make this goal a practical and practiced reality? Are there key enablers to include and obstacles to overcome in relation to methodology, practicality, and messaging? What gaps remain in relation to global convergence on methods and reporting, and how do we close those gaps as rapidly as possible.
Zoe Le Grand, Principal Sustainability Stategist, Forum for the Future
Julie Newman, Director of Sustainability, MIT
David Korngold, Associate Director, Business for Social Responsibility
Jane Abernethy, Chief Sustainability Officer, Humanscale
Moderator: Gregory A. Norris, Director, SHINE@MIT
5:00 PM onward Reception and Dinner – Endicott House
Handprinting and Net Positive: Accomplishments and Directions
The past 3 years have seen pioneering work in developing and applying methods to assess an enterprise's positive sustainability impacts, and to set these in the context of its footprints which are simultaneously being reduced. The SHINE Summit 2018 will take serious stock of both our achievements and the road ahead. What have we learned and gained? What do we need and why? Our goal is to size up the full potential of Net Positive and to identify the most urgent steps to take in order to realize it together.
This year' Net Positive summit consist of four plenary sessions, each with a combination of presentation and dialogue among panelists and attendees.
Agenda
Breaks, lunch, reception and dinner provided.
.
8:30 – 9:00 Welcome Randolph Kirchain, Research Director, MIT Material Systems Lab
Co-Director, MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub
Gregory A. Norris, Director, SHINE@MIT
9:00 – 10:30 Handprinting and Net Positive: What We’ve Achieved So Far
Some leading, pioneering companies have made progress in creating handprints, measuring them,and using them in assessment towards net positivity. Some have also had success at engaging employees and other stakeholders in this quest; some have made progress towards scalability ofbottom-up reporting to support company-wide assessment. We'll hear about successes, lessons, value derived, impacts achieved, and near-term directions from these pioneers.
Jane Abernethy, Chief Sustainability Officer, Humanscale
Connie Sasala, Global Director of Sustainability, Eaton Corporation
Rami Vagal, Sustainability Manager, Mohawk Group
Gale Tedhams, Director of Sustainability, Owens Corning
Moderator: Jeremy Gregory, Executive Director, MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub
10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:30 Handprinting and Net Positive: Promoting Human Rights and the SDGs
Human rights represent one of businesses’ greatest opportunities to grow their positive impacts. This session will explore frameworks for handprint creation, data for social impact measurement, strategies for augmenting human rights achievements and the place of collaboration in creating sustainable impacts and contributing to the SDGs.
Sancia Dalley, Senior Vice President, Partnerships, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
Lina Azuero, Corporate Sustainability Strategist, Dell
Sara Blackwell, Advisor, SHIFT
Moderator: Catherine Benoit Norris, VP Social Sustainability, New Earth
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 3:00 Beyond GHGs: Applying Net Positive When Impact Context Matters
The footprints and handprints of all actors take place across causal chains that are widely distributed across space and even in time. Reductions in emissions of GHGs in one location by one actor clearly and equally compensate for the emissions of another actor in another location. But for other impact categories such as water depletion, biodiversity, and human health, context is part of the impact equation. And when different human populations are affected, distributional considerations arise. This session will explore the complexities and potential solutions to address and pursue Net Positive for impacts where context matters.
Anne-Marie Boulay, Project Manager, Water Use in LCA, CIRAIG
Specialist on Water in Net Positive (Quantis, WRI, invited)
Christian Bauer,Corporate Sustainability Expert, SIG
Specialist on Ecosystem Services (invited)
Moderator: Elsa Olivetti, Atlantic Richfield Associate Professor of Energy Studies, MIT
3:00 – 3:30 Lunch
3:30 – 5:00 Handprinting and Net Positive: Achieving Full Potential
Being able to augment footprint reduction and reporting with pursuit of, and reporting about, positive impacts is a powerful goal for a host of reasons. What are the keys to its success? What do we need to achieve in order to make this goal a practical and practiced reality? Are there key enablers to include and obstacles to overcome in relation to methodology, practicality, and messaging? What gaps remain in relation to global convergence on methods and reporting, and how do we close those gaps as rapidly as possible.
Zoe Le Grand, Principal Sustainability Stategist, Forum for the Future
Julie Newman, Director of Sustainability, MIT
David Korngold, Associate Director, Business for Social Responsibility
Jane Abernethy, Chief Sustainability Officer, Humanscale
Moderator: Gregory A. Norris, Director, SHINE@MIT
5:00 PM onward Reception and Dinner – Endicott House