Climate/Energy Series: Disclose, Assess, Improve: Sustainability Reporting Best Practice

Overview

Session Description

Each year, large organizations are required to file a library's worth of sustainability reports that request different data, in different formats, for different purposes. Increasingly, they're forcing this burden upon their supply chains as well. With investors, regulators and consumers demanding greater transparency and accountability, the stakes have never been higher.

This discussion will look at the best techniques for engaging stakeholders, identifying reporting needs, managing data and disclosure across a large organization and its supply chain. A panel including a sustainability reporter, a sustainability protocol official, and the CEO of a sustainability software provider will share techniques for collecting and reporting qualitative and quantitative data, discuss how to derive maximum value from the data disclosed and how to take action to correct deficiencies and capture opportunities.

Measurabl is building new technology for sustainability reporting and is now exploring how to apply its innovate software to ease the sustainability reporting burden in the healthcare sector (Practice Greenhealth, Global Reporting Initiative, Carbon Disclosure Project). Join for a panel discussion with Matt Ellis, CEO of Measurabl, Cleveland Clinic’s Jon Utech and the Global Reporting Initiative’s Mike Wallace for a discussion around data collection, management and sustainability reporting.

Learning Objectives

Learn how to collect and report qualitative and quantitative data for reporting purposes.
See examples of peer benchmarking and opportunity analysis.
Learn how to take action to correct deficiencies or seize opportunities.

Presenters

Matt Ellis, Founder & CEO, Measurabl

Matt is CEO of Measurabl, a sustainability reporting software company. Before founding Measurabl, Matt was Director of Sustainability Solutions at CBRE, the world's largest commercial real estate services company, where he was responsible for implementing sustainability programs on behalf of Fortune 500 companies and commercial real estate owners and managers.

Jon E. Utech, Senior Director of the Office for a Healthy Environment, Cleveland Clinic

John Utech is the Senior Director of the Office for a Healthy Environment at Cleveland Clinic, where he develops sustainability strategies to emphasize the triple bottom line. Jon earned his MBA and MS-OD from Case Western Reserve, has more than 18 years of corporate strategy and planning experience and 8 years of experience implementing corporate sustainability programs. As the Co-Founder and CFO of Carbon Vision, Jon financed and built 120 residential and commercial solar systems and worked on energy efficiency projects with universities, municipalities and non-profits.

Mike Wallace, Director, GRI

Mike Wallace is an internationally recognized expert in the sustainability field. Since 2009, he has served as a Director for the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and since 2010 as the Director of GRI's Focal Point US & Canada. Officially launched in January 2011 at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), GRI’s Focal Point USA & Canada is responsible for supporting the growth and quality of sustainability reporting. Since opening GRI in North America, documented GRI sustainability reporting has more than doubled in North America and is occurring across all areas of the economy; public and private companies; federal, state & local governments; nonprofits and academic institutions.