Scaling Nature’s Solutions: Measuring, Communicating and Integrating Nature-Based Solutions
Industries often face challenges in measuring and understanding the value of nature, the impacts of biodiversity loss, and the effectiveness of nature-based solutions that align with organizational strategies. While nature provides immense benefits, realizing its true potential depends on effectively measuring outcomes and aligning solutions with business goals through clear communication and strategic integration.
Join this session for a collaborative discussion to identify areas of opportunity, discuss challenges, and explore science-based innovations and science-based solutions that you can put to work for your organization.
The Circularity Strategy: Aligning Circular Practices and Business Models to Create Value
As a global leader in supply chain solutions, CHEP advances the smart and sustainable movement of goods across more than 60 countries. Through its share, repair and reuse model, CHEP has supported the global supply chain since the mid-1940s, integrating and aligning circular practices with its business strategy to drive both impact and profitability.
In this GLOBE Unplugged session, hear from CHEP and its partners, Loblaw and Ice River Sustainable Solutions, on how embedding circularity into business models can drive value across organizations and sectors. Join us to discover how aligning your business goals with circular practices can drive both sustainability and profitability.
Nature-Driven Success: Working with our Natural Environment to Safeguard Supply Chains
With changes to our natural environment and global nature-related disasters on the rise, serious threats to both organizational supply chains and workforces are increasing exponentially. There has never been a more critical time to prioritize building a robust corporate nature strategy, but the question remains-how can businesses prioritize the proper management and restoration of nature while continuing to create value and ensuring supply chain stability.
Join leading organizations in this interactive GLOBE Unplugged session, to learn about comprehensive corporate nature strategies and explore how these strategies can safeguard your supply chain and workforce, while creating lasting value for both your company and the planet.
Navigating Bill C-59: Balancing Risk Mitigation and Maintained Progress
Greenwashing has been used to make products, services, and companies appear more sustainable than they are and, in extreme cases, acts to conceal harmful environmental impacts. With greenwashing concerns and investigations on the rise, varying levels of regulation have been implemented to combat this, including the recent introduction of Bill C-59.
With this new guidance, companies must now navigate compliance while adapting to evolving expectations and the challenge remains: how can we balance protecting our businesses from greenwashing with maintaining our targets and public disclosure?
Join this interactive discussion to explore key recommendations and answer all your Bill C-59 questions, ensuring you walk away with a better understanding of how to implement these new guidelines in your company to stay protected and continue advancing your targets.
(Invitation-Only) TNFD Consultation Group Working Session: Unlocking the Power of Nature-Related Disclosures
Nature-related reporting holds the key to meeting global biodiversity targets, improving understanding of our economy’s reliance on nature, and aligning markets with nature-positive outcomes.
At this invitation-only roundtable, members of the Canadian consultation group for the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), along with others committed to advancing nature finance, will gather to discuss how Canada can increase adoption of nature-related disclosures through bolstering awareness and building capacity. Join us for this unique opportunity to connect with your peers as you share challenges and successes, engage with global experts, and explore the latest capacity building resources from the TNFD.
This event is by invitation only.
Plenary – Private Sector, Public Good: How Businesses are Driving Bipartisan Action
At a time of increasing economic and political uncertainty, the need for solutions that enable economic growth while protecting the planet is increasingly important. The path forward hinges on identifying solutions that transcend partisanship and accelerate sustainable business growth. Canada’s private sector is well-positioned to lead the charge in advancing these “yes, and” solutions.
Join this timely session to explore the private sector’s role as a catalyst for change and uncover the practical actions needed to deliver outcomes that transcend partisanship and accelerate the clean economy.
Plenary – At the Forefront: Women Leading the Charge
Actionable strategies and impact are only possible because of the changemakers pushing to make a difference. Women Leading on Climate is at the forefront of this movement, highlighting the pivotal role women play in driving ambitious climate action and amplifying the collective voice for a global clean economy.
Join Women Leading on Climate as they launch a new Canadian Chapter at GLOBExCHANGE 2025 and share more about the critical contributions women and gender diverse leaders are making – here in Canada and around the world. Explore the importance of creating and embedding space for women leaders beyond sustainability-focused roles, and the ways women will ensure Canada remains a global leader in climate action.
The Critical Role of the CFO: Strategic Investment Decisions for Today and Tomorrow
CFOs across industries and sectors share a common accountability – they are tasked with making critical investment and capital allocation decisions that balance short-term value creation with long-term strategy. In Canada and globally, striking this balance increasingly requires financial and sustainability accountability to go hand in hand.
In this timely GLOBE Unplugged session, we’ll explore how CFOs are navigating these critical investment decisions in the current geopolitical and economic context. How are they approaching allocation of resources for climate and sustainability related efforts? How are they collaborating with internal sustainability executives and experts? Join this session to explore how finance professionals are driving value for the bottom line while ensuring financial stability and sustainable progress.
Boardroom Brains: Gamifying Climate and Nature Risk Management
Step into a game-like boardroom scenario where you’ll navigate real-time decisions on climate and nature risks for a global food manufacturing company. With insights from a panel of experts, you’ll observe the trickle-down impacts of your decisions and gain a comprehensive understanding of the big-picture risks involved. Join this dynamic interactive session for a deep dive into the complex connections between climate change and nature-related challenges and receive practical risk management advice from multi-sector experts, that you can employ in your own organization.
(Invitation-Only) Indigenous Engagement Session on the Canadian Sustainability Standards Board’s (CSSB) Inaugural Strategic Plan
The Canadian Sustainability Standards Board (CSSB) invites Indigenous leaders and changemakers to an exclusive engagement session on its inaugural Strategic Plan for 2025-2028. This session will gather valuable feedback and insights from Indigenous thought leaders and decision makers to ensure the plan reflects a commitment to inclusivity and collaboration and addresses Canada’s unique sustainability disclosure challenges.
Join us for this important dialogue, where you will play a crucial role in shaping the CSSB strategic plan and the overall Canadian reporting landscape.
This event is by invitation only. If you are interested in attending, please contact carolyn.hotchkiss@globeseries.com