Sustainability, taught from experience

Focus areas

• Corporate carbon footprints and Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions
• Setting and governing science-based targets (SBTi)
• The gap between climate ambition and operational control

This session looks behind corporate climate commitments and examines what carbon accounting, SBTi targets and decarbonization plans mean once they enter company systems, governance and decision-making.

Also covers

• methodological changes and recalculations
• internal decision-making and accountability
• communicating progress and setbacks credibly

Best suited to

Sustainability, climate, business strategy, accounting and executive education programmes.

Focus areas

• Circularity and lifecycle thinking (Sustainability by Design)
• EU product rules: ESPR, Digital Product Passport, PPWR
• Product ownership and supply chain data

This session explores how circularity and evolving product requirements change the way companies develop and manage physical and digital products.

Also covers

• the gap between regulatory requirements and product processes
• integrating sustainability requirements into product development processes
• lifecycle information, documentation and internal product ownership

Best suited to

Product management, innovation, engineering, sustainability and supply chain programmes.

Focus areas

• How reporting frameworks (GRI, CSRD/ESRS) translate into internal ownership and controls
• Data quality, evidence and audit-readiness behind sustainability numbers
• Turning a compliance exercise into a functioning operating model

This session looks at what happens behind a sustainability report or disclosure — who owns the data, how it is controlled, and how organizations move from a one-off compliance exercise to a repeatable governance process.

Also covers

• assigning ownership across finance, sustainability and operations
• audit trails and evidence for disclosed figures
• the shift from voluntary reporting to regulatory assurance requirements

Best suited to

Sustainability, ESG, reporting, governance, finance and audit programmes.

Focus areas

• What makes a sustainability claim credible
• Greenwashing risks and how to avoid them
• Communicating under uncertainty, without overstating

This session examines how companies can communicate sustainability without unsupported claims, selective storytelling or misleading simplification, and why credible communication depends on governance and evidence, not only careful wording.

Also covers

• evidence, context and material omissions
• the tension between simplicity and accuracy
• collaboration between sustainability, legal and communications teams

Best suited to

Communication, marketing, corporate affairs, sustainability and compliance programmes.

Focus areas

• Decarbonization in a hard-to-abate, safety-regulated industry
• Operational efficiency versus absolute emissions
• Sustainability across airline, airport and technology value chains

This session uses aviation technology as a case for examining sustainability in a global, regulated and operationally complex sector, where climate ambition, safety requirements and infrastructure realities all meet.

Also covers

• digitalization as an enabler and a source of impacts in aviation
• the role of suppliers and technology providers in sectoral transition
• credible claims about technology-enabled emissions savings in aviation

Best suited to

Aviation, transport, technology, sustainability and innovation programmes.

Focus areas

• How EU rules (CSRD, CBAM, ESPR, PPWR) extend beyond EU borders through supply chains and customers
• Managing compliance across many countries and overlapping regulations at once
• What global companies actually need to change, not just report

This session examines how EU sustainability and product rules increasingly shape decisions for companies and suppliers far beyond the EU, and what it takes to manage compliance across multiple jurisdictions.

Also covers

• cross-border effects of EU rules through supply chains and market access
• cross-functional data ownership challenges across many markets
• practical prioritization when facing overlapping regulatory deadlines

Best suited to

International business, EU studies, supply chain, compliance and sustainability programmes.