MANAGING CARBON,
ENERGY, WATER and WASTE

Event highlights include:

• Practical ideas and tips for energy conservation
• Environmental regulation that you need to know now
• Tracking and reducing your carbon footprint
• Measuring ROI – making sense of the triple bottom line
• Effectively responding to an environmental crisis

MEDIA PARTNER

MARKETING PARTNERS

• VPs, Directors and Managers of:
  • Environment
  • Sustainability
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Government and Public Relations
  • Facilities Management
  • Supply Chain

• Environmental Lawyers
• Environmental Consultants
• Waste Management Professionals

Monday, September 27, 2010

8:00

Registration

8:40

Welcome Remarks from Insight Information

8:45

Co-Chairs’ Opening Remarks

9:00

The Big Picture: Devising Long-Term Strategic Goals for a Successful Sustainability Program

Tim Faveri
Director, Business Sustainability and Responsibility
Tim Hortons

• Developing a unified organizational vision for your sustainability program
• Evaluating different avenues and approaches for strategy execution
  • Packaging reduction
  • Energy and water conservation
  • Piloting Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification
  • Fleet management
  • Sustainable sourcing
  • Community and social programs
• Achieving stakeholder buy-in – what’s in it for them
• Monitoring and measuring success of short term goals to achieve long term vision

9:45

Environmental Regulation: Key Current Issues and Latest Proposals that You Must Know

Paul H. Manning
Partner, Certified Environmental Law Specialist
Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers LLP

• Environmental regulation
  • Corporate and executive liability
  • Provisions of the Environmental Enforcement Act – what’s different
  • Dealing with contaminated properties
  • Waste Diversion Act and disposal restrictions
  • Water regulation and air emissions control
• Where is Canadian law headed in GHG emissions control, carbon labelling and cap and trade?
• Sustainability – environmental management beyond regulatory requirement
  • Why do it? What to do? A legal perspective

10:30

Networking Coffee Break

10:45

Making a Sound Business Case for the Climate Savers Program

Hadley Archer
VP, Strategic Partnerships
WWF-Canada

• How businesses can impact climate change
• What is the WWF Climate Savers Program?
• Proven benefits of participation in the program
  • GHG emissions reduction
  • Lower GHG taxes and market risks
  • Energy cost savings
  • Consumer and employee satisfaction
• Cost benefit analysis – making a strong business case

11:30

Tracking Your Carbon Footprint – Developing a Quantitative Environmental Label for Your Product

Andrew Conway
Co-Founder
CarbonCounted

• Determining your GHG inventory and product carbon footprints
  • How does the measurement process work?
  • Global standards and methodologies for carbon calculation
  • What are alternates?
• GHG in your supply chain
  • Using carbon emissions as a qualifier in supplier selection
  • How to ask your suppliers for this data in a way that does not increase their costs and complexity
• Measuring and displaying your carbon label – is it the right choice for you?

12:15

Networking Luncheon

1:30

The Blue Bin’s in Business - Benefits that Justify Costs of Recycling

Leigh Pearson
Manager, Facilities & Environment
Staples Canada Inc.

• Evaluating resources and costs associated with establishing a recycling program
• Tangible benefits – can this project fund itself?
• Intangible benefits that add value to the business
• A closer look at the electronics recycling program at Staples
• Lessons learned – what we would do differently if we could do it again

2:15

Networking Refreshment Break

2:30

From Procurement to End of Life: Effective Ways to Manage Your Total Cost of I.T. Ownership

Frances Edmonds
Director, Environmental Programs
HP

• Total cost of ownership (TCO) – calculating direct and the often ignored end-of-life costs associated with your IT infrastructure
• Applying TCO principles to purchasing decisions
• Achieving efficiency in IT usage – roles and responsibilities
• Evaluating reusability, recycling or disposal options for obsolete equipment and infrastructure

3:15

Identifying Best Practices in Energy Conservation: Ideas from the Manufacturing and Commercial Sectors

Doug Hietkamp
Director of Sustainable Development Programs
Teknion

Jim Johnston
Director, Environmental Sustainability
BMO Financial Group Inc.

• LEED green buildings – associated benefits for tenants
• Results from retrofit programs – what are the opportunities and associated savings
• Achieving Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning (HVAC) energy efficiency
• Considering renewable energy and offsets – when does it make business sense?
• Large carbon footprint of IT – effective ways to reduce information and communications technologies’ energy consumption costs
• Resource management and planning – practical ideas and strategies
• Driving a cultural change – challenges and lessons learned

4:15

Conference Adjourns for the Day

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

9:00

Initiatives at CN Rail: Accelerated Action to Address Climate Change

Chantale Després
Director - Sustainability
CN

• Reviewing CN’s current initiatives and cross industry partnerships
• Engaging with policy-makers and developing sound governance at the board level on climate change
• Disclosure of direct emissions and external supply
• Emissions trading initiatives
• Engaging multiple stakeholders to ensure success of this cross-functional project
• Managing the pace of technology change and capital choices
• Future opportunities – infrastructural and policy limitations

9:45

ArcelorMittal Dofasco’s Blue Skies Initiative: A Commitment to Continuous Environmental Improvement

Jim Stirling
General Manager, Environment
ArcelorMittal Dofasco

• Defining the scope of the Blue Skies initiative
• A strategic approach to improved air quality
• Addressing climate change
• Achieving strong results in energy efficiency and water quality improvement
• The importance of community engagement for the success of your initiatives

10:30

Networking Break

10:45

Reducing Your Water Footprint – The Often Forgotten Responsibility

Karen Kun
Co-Founder, Waterlution
Publisher, Corporate Knights

• Water – long term supply risk of a resource that is considered abundant
• What can you do to reduce your operational water footprint?
  • Creating specific and measurable targets for reduction
  • Practical tips for offices, retail and manufacturing facilities
  • Increasing transparency of water usage
• How can you manage water conservation in your supply chain?
• Measuring supplier compliance and developing acceptable standards
• Putting in an effort to bring water pollution to zero

11:30

Successes and Challenges of Environmental Programs in a Complex and Financially Constrained Institution

Beth Savan, Ph.D. MCIP
Sustainability Director
University of Toronto

• Managing requirements of multiple stakeholders in a decentralized and complex organization
• Operating on a limited budget – selecting opportunities and effectively allocating funds
• Innovative ideas and new approaches that your organization can consider

12:15

Networking Luncheon

1:30

It’s About ROI – Justifying and Prioritizing Environmental Initiatives

Dr. James Gray-Donald 
Associate Vice-President, Sustainability Leader
Sears Canada

• What are key measures of a successful environmental initiative?
• Assigning value to intangible benefits
• Prioritizing greening initiatives – opportunity costs for the business
• How can you justify projects that have a longer pay-back period?
• Value to the triple bottom line – what is the optimal mix of social, environmental and economic gain?

2:15

Crisis Leadership: Developing a Timely and Relevant Response to an Environmental Crisis

Dr. Terry Flynn, APR, FCPRS
Professor and Director of the MCM Degree Program
DeGroote School of Business - McMaster University

The most valuable crisis management and communications responses are not determined by the size of the crisis plan but by the effectiveness of the organization’s leadership, mindset and organizational culture. Being prepared for a crisis is one thing but being able to react quickly in today’s hypersensitive marketplace takes anticipation, readiness and a sense that operating in a crisis mode is now the new normal. Terry will present his observations, insights and recommendations on crisis management and communications strategies based on his own personal experiences from the Walkerton water crisis and other crises that he worked on over his 20 year consulting and academic career.

3:15

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