Businesses are struggling to prioritise and deliver against sustainability targets.

Only one in ten corporates feel they have an ‘actionable’ sustainability strategy (source).

Jamie Dujardin sits down with Jean-Philippe Laborde, Managing Director at Tilda, to understand how organisations can best move the needle on sustainability to contribute to long-term competitive advantage and major change.

What we cover:

• How to prioritise sustainability initiatives within your strategy, taking into account sustainability and business impact

• Practical tips for engaging suppliers as ‘partners’ in your sustainability journey

• Advice for scaling up & financing sustainability pilots to drive long-term competitive advantage

Don’t forget to check out these links:

• Tilda’s 2022 Impact Report - How to build an internal business case for sustainability

Unpacking the key levers that business leaders can pull to boost corporate sustainability performance. We speak to Gabrielle Ginér, Head of Environment at BT Group, to understand how the telecoms giant is overcoming decarbonisation hurdles to power the UK’s road to net zero.

We will cover:

• How to engage suppliers in your decarbonisation journey

• Best practice for collaboration

• How to leverage the business opportunity

• How to think about Scope 4 from a business perspective

• Key technological innovations to boost sustainability performance

• Overcoming sustainability data challenges

• Sustainability leadership - tips to driving internal buy in

In economic uncertainty, sustainability professionals should focus on communicating the business benefits of reducing food waste, more so than ideological reasoning.

With Food Waste Action Week underway, we are excited to share our latest roundtable recording where Sue Riley, Senior Sector Specialist at WRAP explains how to build a compelling business case for food waste to unlock the narrative across all different stakeholders.

Eager to take action? Find out more via the links below.

• WRAPs Food Waste Toolkit

• Food Waste Action Week

• Love Food Hate Waste Campaign

To understand how Bloom & Wild is lightening their material footprint whilst meeting growing consumer demand, we speak with Sibbe Krol, Head of Sustainability at Bloom & Wild.

We will cover:

• Building your sustainability strategy: what drives a corporate net zero pathway

• Overcoming sustainability data challenges: Top tips for gathering supplier data and improving the rigour of your materiality assessment

• Credible communication: Key steps to bringing consumers along with you on your sustainability journey

• Prioritisation: Navigating commercial and sustainability trade-offs

• Bloom & Wild has used technology to turn the flower industry on its head to become one of the most loved and trusted flower delivery brands in the market.

Get in touch if you want to continue the conversation via our website.

Cutting waste is rising up the business and sustainability agenda given the significant commercial (cost savings, improved reputation) and environmental opportunities (GHG emission reductions, water quality improvement). Hugh's keynote talk outlines what tackling food waste looks like in practice and how companies can strategically prioritise high-impact reduction initiatives.

What will be covered:

• How to approach food waste reduction

• Food waste reduction challenges to be aware of

• The key levers for navigating these challenges

Hugh Lewis is Head of Sustainability at Gousto, a unicorn recipe box delivery company built on the founding principle of cutting food waste,

2023 is set to be a huge year for land-related emissions reporting, with SBTi requiring Forest, Land and Agriculture (FLAG) targets from April onwards, and the GHG Protocol releasing their official Land Sector and Removals guidance in the second half of the year. This podcast outlines what your company needs to know and do to stay ahead of the regulatory curve. In this episode, you will learn:

• Who needs to consider land-related emissions

• What land-related emissions are

• Why your company should account for these emissions

• Incoming regulations to be aware of

• How to start thinking about measuring land-based emissions

Read our blog post here.

Ellen Fay, the co-founder of the Sustainable Soil Alliance observed that “soil is crucial to the health of everything else. We can't deliver on any of our environmental targets if we don't deliver for soil”.

In our conversation with Tim Mead, Non-exec and former CEO of Yeo Valley Organic and Becky Wilson, Technical Director at Farm Carbon Toolkit, we will dig into the truth of this statement and address the key levers that businesses and farmers can take to scale soil health initiatives.

We will uncover:

• The challenges and opportunities of soil carbon measurement

• The commercial opportunities for actors across the value chain (farmers through to retailers)

• What a future farming system looks like

In our latest episode of This is Altruistiq we are joined by two veterans in the food sector to dig into sustainable sourcing and building a future food system.

As a resource-intensive industry, heavily reliant on fossil fuels, water and nutrient extractive with a track record of being cash poor and risk-averse, the agricultural and food sector needs a disruption. In our conversation with Andy Farnworth, Managing Director at Sysco and Philipp Saumweber, Managing Director of Sunridge Partners and founder of Sun Drop Farms, we will uncover system trends towards a healthier product and planet, address the issues with conventional farming and unpack the opportunities for sourcing, production and distribution innovations.

LUSH Cosmetics are pioneers at integrating regeneration into supply chains, partnering 13 years ago with communities and organisations around the world that were applying a more holistic approach to agriculture. Ruth shares key learnings and insights that businesses should consider when building a regenerative supply chain.

Nature restoration plays a critical role in mitigating climate change. However, it is not rising up the political and business agenda as quickly as decarbonisation. Ben’s keynote talk underscores the importance and potential that nature restoration can have when addressed in parallel with decarbonisation.