PRESENTING PARTNER

IN ASSOCIATION WITH

ORGANISED BY

Want to be featured amongst the Middle East’s most influential ESG leaders of 2022?

Picture1
Nominate Now

SESSION OVERVIEW

With the growth of conscious consumption, it is said that over 66% of the customers consider sustainability when making a purchase. Being more responsible and sustainable has become a key USP for many brands and service providers. Having the right Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) strategy is one part and the other is measuring, reporting, and communicating the same with your stakeholders.  

In addition, responsible investing is the trend followed by many large investors who want to consider both financial returns and social and environmental benefits in their investment decisions. This new investment approach recognizes the importance of ESG factors to the investor, as well as the long-term health and stability of the market as a whole.

ESG has quickly moved from the corporate and shareholder periphery to centre stage, and the time for disclosure is now. Investor demand for ESG information has increased massively. Reporting on the company’s impact on society, the environment, and overall governance is becoming an inseparable part of the business. In this session, we will talk about addressing your carbon footprint and creating an emission reduction plan.

ESG in the GCC: What’s important for businesses?

Download Now

WHY ATTEND?

  • Icon

    Listen

    to experts helping organisations in the Middle East and Europe create impactful sustainability profiles.

  • Icon

    Participate

    in live demo and case study about sustainability platform trusted by largest brands.

  • Icon

    Understand

    how other organisations strengthened communication with consumers, the public, professionals, and other businesses.

  • Icon

    Communicate

    your sustainability the right way.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

  • Icon

    Learn

    how to integrate ESG risk in your organisation.

  • Icon

    BUILDING CREDIBILITY

    credibility through transparent sustainability profile

  • Icon

    QUANTIFY

    your efforts and link activities with appropriate SDGs

  • Icon

    demonstrate

    a transparent approach towards sustainability

  • Icon

    learn

    about some of the effective ways to communicate your efforts to your consumers and investors.

Who should attend?

Senior management whose roles and responsibilities include helping their company adopt sustainable business practices and developing and tracking activities to improve their company’s environmental and social impacts.

agenda

10:00 Opening remarks
10:10 Panel Discussion: Addressing your carbon footprint and creating an emission reduction plan
Dipankar Ghosh, Partner & Leader / Sustainability & ESGBusiness Advisory Services, BDO India
Tamara Withers, Corporate Sustainability Expert
Hanan Bakr, Head, Private Sector Engagement, UAE Climate Change Special Envoy
Karim Elnabawy, Senior Sustainability Manager @ ROSHN Real Estate
Viridiana Bello Huitle, Sustainability consultant
11:00 How to manage, track, report, and communicate your sustainable activities and ESG scores
Martin Púček, MBA, Business Development Manager, SmartHead
11:15 Q&A session
11:30 Closing remarks from session moderator

Feedback from past programs

speakers

Aruna Narayanan
Senior Advisor, ESG & Sustainability,
The Partnerships Advisory
She is a sustainability enthusiast and strategic thought leader with a passion for driving prosperity through people empowerment and planet protection.

She is a highly accomplished results driven professional with two decades of corporate experience. She focuses on sustainability, ESG, impact investing, innovative waste management and recycling, marketing communications and corporate social responsibility. With previous leadership positions at organisations including Purecog Holdings, Dulsco, Accenture and Ocwen Financial Corporation, she is adept at supporting companies and their clients on sustainability journeys with lasting positive impact across multiple stakeholders.

Presently Aruna serves on the advisory board for various companies guiding them on embedding sustainability into their businesses by leveraging the UN Sustainable Development Goals. She also serves as the President of the Alumni Network of Harvard Women (UAE Chapter).
Bhavya Sharma
Sustainable Finance Expert
Bhavya has over 15 years of infrastructure, leveraged structuring and M&A experience with public and private institutions across the EMEA. She is adept in stakeholder management, valuation, financial modelling, legal documentation for senior and subordinated lending, risk sharing , covenant drafting for cash-flow and asset backed/ securitised lending, client interaction and presentations. Passionate advocate of Sustainability and Sustainable Finance.
Ahmed Medhat
Director of Sustainability Mawared Industries (S.A.E)
He was involved in executing various multi-million-dollar projects funded by development agencies in Egypt (UNDP, GIZ, WB, IFC, EBRD, KfW, UNEP, UNIDO, etc.). The role involved designing, implementing, and monitoring the different aspects of the project's cycle. This ranged from the development and integration of effective Environmental and Social Performance Management systems, raising awareness, training, and developing business partnerships, market need analysis, operational plans, fundraising, and successful and effective implementation to monitoring and evaluation
Dipankar Ghosh
Partner & Leader / Sustainability & ESGBusiness Advisory Services, BDO India
Dipankar has more than 30 years of experience in leading solutions and teams around the subject matter of sustainability and human development, climate change, ESG, resource efficiency, sustainable technology, renewable energy and climate financing.
He has worked with clients across geographies including corporates, governments, multilateral & bilateral agencies as well as not-for-profits and has experience across sectors including Metallurgy & Mining, Power & Utility, Oil & Gas, Chemicals & Fertilisers, Cement, Pulp & Paper, Manufacturing, Agro-processing, Automotive, Real Estate, Health Care, Telecommunication, Transportation, Construction, Biofuel.
Prior to joining BDO in India Dipankar was associated with an engineering consultancy, he subsequently led the sustainability practice at a large professional services firm in India and later MENA and an entrepreneurial venture in creating a sustainable development advisory firm. He is a respectable thought leader on the subject and often speaks at conferences and works with industry associations for policy advocacy.
Tamara Withers
Corporate Sustainability Expert
With over 20 years of industry experience, Tamara specializes in environmental sustainability covering strategy, education and awareness, and policy. She began her career with the U.S. Peace Corps as an environmental educator in Gabon, Central Africa and four years at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) / Foreign Agriculture Service as an International Affairs Specialist.
Tamara Withers worked with Emirates Nature – WWF for 10 years, where she focused on advancing sustainability in a number of roles across the organization. From 2009 - 2015 Tamara worked with the Climate and Energy team to launch and implement a national climate change awareness campaign focused on business and individuals. In this role, Tamara advanced the adoption of energy efficiency through education and awareness events and development of energy efficiency case studies. Tamara subsequently transitioned into a new role to develop corporate partnerships that would both advance WWF’s and partner sustainability goals. Building on her expertise in strategy and education and awareness, Tamara was invited to lead the development of the research and learning component of a new youth engagement program. In this role, she focused on designing strategies and content to engage youth through citizen science, an online platform with e-library and courses, and internships.
Hanan Bakr
Head, Private Sector Engagement, UAE Climate Change Special Envoy
Hanan Sakr is a Resilience Finance Lead with the High-Level Climate Change Champions. She has over 20 years of diversified experience across Financial advisory, Investment banking, ESG Advisory and Financing, Capital Structuring and Global Relationship Management. Hanan has a Bachelor Degree in accounting from the faculty of English Commerce, Ain Shams University. She is a Sustainability MSc student with Harvard University.
Karim Elnabawy
Senior Sustainability Manager @ ROSHN Real Estate
Karim Elnabawy Balbaa is an experienced sustainability and climate change professional who has made significant contributions to sustainable development in the Middle East. He is a licensed instructor and holds multiple accreditations, including the prestigious LEED AP certification. With over 12 years of experience in sustainable building design, green architecture, master planning, and sustainable technical engineering, Karim has worked on some of the largest developments in the region. He has led sustainable development in many projects, including those focused on net-zero carbon and energy, sustainability, and strategy advisory. Karim is a sought-after public speaker and has presented at many conferences and events. He is also a prolific writer and has published numerous papers and articles on sustainable architecture. His work has been recognized with awards from the USA, Italy, Greece, Emirates, India, and Egypt. In 2017, Karim was shortlisted for the Rising Star of the Year award by ME magazine for his contribution towards raising awareness of sustainability in the region. He has trained over 5000 professionals, academics, and students and has developed the best-selling courses on LEED Rating system and sustainability on Udemy, Skillshare, and other platforms.
Viridiana Bello Huitle
Sustainability consultant
I am a Sustainability Consultant and Environmental Engineer with over seven years of international experience in project management, research, consultative sales and field engineering working for companies in consulting and energy industries. My purpose is to facilitate a smooth transition to more sustainable ways of doing business, integrating our knowledge, and optimising our industry practices
Martin Pucek
Martin Púček
MBA, Business Development Manage
SmartHead


Martin handles business development for SmartHead, a cloud-based software tool for companies of all sizes to manage, track, report, and communicate their sustainability activities and ESG in one place.

partners

SmartHead is a cloud-based software tool for companies of all sizes to manage, track, report, and communicate their sustainability activities and ESG in one place. Publicly accessible company Sustainability Profiles ensure stakeholders have easy access to sustainability information. Optionally companies can keep their Sustainability profile in private mode only for internal purposes. SmartHead is currently in the process of certification by GRI (GRI Software & Tool Partner) and is trusted by companies such as Dell Technologies, EY, Tesco, McDonald’s, Wolt, Kaufland, IBM, Henkel, BMW, and others.

Facebook Instagram Linkedin

The Carbon Collective Team collaborates with businesses to support them in working towards bringing positive impacts on climate change, ecosystems, and communities worldwide. We work with our clients to remove the complexity out of their decarbonisation journeys.

We create and plan decarbonisation goals and strategies for organisations to achieve their objectives at the various phases of their decarbonisation journeys, allowing our clients to continue operating efficiently, effectively and most importantly, sustainably.

Playing a crucial role in making business sense of ESG for business owners, investors and C-suite executives across all sectors, we make sustainability a common practice among organisations to curb climate change globally.

Facebook Instagram Linkedin Twitter

registration

presenting partner

in association with

organised by

REACH us

ARJUN CHANDRAN

Project Manager
+91 8281978378
arjun@mentormeglobal.com

MRIGASHI MOHINI

VIP Relations and Key Account Manager
+971 52 971 7532
mrigashi.mohini@thecarboncc.com

Jacqueline Rossinni

Manager – ESG
+63 927 282 5523 | +60 16 268 4452
jacqueline.rossinni@thecarboncc.com

Ashwini Gowda

Manager – ESG
+91 81236 59143
ashwini.gowda@thecarboncc.com