Name: Sustainable Commodities and Landscapes Forum
Start: 2024-11-05 00:00:00 UTC
End: 2024-11-06 00:00:00 UTC
Location: Amsterdam

This two-day business conference will address the critical sustainability challenges - and opportunities - in commodity supply chains. We’ll discuss how business can respond to incoming legislation and assess what supply chain transformation really means on-the-ground for farmers, forests, biodiversity and nature.

Forests

The practical steps for business to navigate incoming legislation, engage and incentivise local communities and effectively implement a forest positive approach

Farmers

How business can place farmers at the heart of agricultural transformation to drive supply chain resilience and ensure the farmers of the future

Land

Leading practices to boost biodiversity, drive regeneration and effectively integrate nature into climate action plans

Livelihoods

How business can drive sustainable rural development and close the living income gap to ensure economic, social and environmental sustainability

2023 Speakers

Cathy Pieters

Mondelēz International

Vice President Global Sustainable Ingredients

Jan Burger

The Coca-Cola Company

Climate & Water Sustainability Director Europe

Wei Peng

Louis Dreyfus Company

Global Head of Sustainability - Grains & Oilseeds

Martina Henry

The Kraft Heinz Company

Director, Agriculture Sustainability

Anita Neville

Golden Agri-Resources

Chief Sustainability and Communications Officer

Ilaria Ida Walton

Mars

Global Socioeconomic Impact Lead

Conor Mc Mahon

Nestlé

Global Net Zero & Nature Lead

Renaka Ramachandran

Sime Darby Plantation

Chief Financial Officer

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Agenda highlights

Climate risk, supply chain resilience and sustainable sourcing: What does leadership look like now, and by 2030?
EU Deforestation Regulation: How the policy landscape is evolving and how business can react to ensure a positive impact on the ground
Climate-smart landscapes: How will the landscape approach fit into the roadmap to net-zero?
Financing the transition: How investors can drive agricultural transformation on the route to net-zero
Science-based targets: How will Forest, Land-use and Agriculture Guidance impact how you manage your Scope 3?
Farmer data as currency: How can we ensure farmers benefit from the commoditisation of agricultural data?
Closing the gap: The practical multistakeholder solutions to empower women and drive living incomes across supply chains

Science-based targets for nature: How business can integrate biodiversity and nature into climate action plans
Do we have carbon tunnel vision? How to ensure a holistic approach to sustainable and responsible procurement
Regenerative agriculture: What are we learning from pilots to take regenerative practices to scale across sourcing contexts?
Only farmers can change farming: Farmer centric approaches to soil health, biodiversity, climate adaptation and resilience
Inclusive carbon markets: How to ensure farmers benefit from carbon credit generation schemes
Whose carbon is it anyway? How current - and evolving - carbon accounting frameworks will shape climate strategy
Green vs greenwash vs greenhush: What does the future hold for consumer engagement on sustainable commodities?

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Why attend?

Discover best practices from industry leaders and get in-depth guidance on how to effectively implement policies

Meet & network with an influential audience of key stakeholders, including NGOs, business, government and supply chain actors

Benchmark company performance amongst a room of your peers and discover where you should be focusing efforts

What's new this year:

The 5th room

We’re adding an additional space for discussion on some of the unspoken truths in sustainability. In these off-the-record sessions, we’ll ask attendees to share mistakes and freely speak their minds as we have pragmatic and honest conversation about the future.

Farmer focused

Only farmers can change farming. As a critical voice in these conversations, we’ll be incorporating more farmer perspectives throughout the two days to ensure the conversation is farmer focused and remains grounded in reality.

Practical, focused problem solving

We’re taking a number of breakout sessions and revamping the format to utilise the full extent of the expertise in the room. This is to ensure we deliver real problem solving that tackles the critical business challenges and provides clear and practical outputs

More networking, more connections

With increased schmoosing time, more side events and better networking options, we’re ensuring there’s the opportunity to make the connections that matter and build the partnerships that can really make a difference.

“We see the Sustainable Commodities & Landscapes Forum as a key part of our intelligence-gathering and networking for sustainable land use."

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"Engaging and PowerPoint-free panel discussions has proven to be a brilliant way to bring multiple perspectives to the current hot topics and what’s on the horizon."

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"By offering the opportunity to meet industry peers, NGOs and regulators, the Forum gives us a rich outside-in viewpoint that is hard to find anywhere else.”

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"The conference was very valuable use of my time; increasing my network, reminding me of some key areas of focus to consider and learning from others."

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What’s different about this forum?

Innovation Forum is:

Candid: Entirely off-the-record discussion that enables open and honest disclosure from speakers and genuine participation from the audience.
Practical: A clear focus on the practical and actionable guidance that can drive change throughout industries and supply chains.
Focused: We provide enough time, resources and expertise to the issues that really matter. We don’t skate the surface, but get to the crux of the issues to provide in-depth, constructive discussion.

Innovation Forum is NOT:

A PR platform: Enthusiastic speakers are NOT given free rein to fill a session presenting their companies, allowing no time to actually get to the crux of the issues.
A talking shop: This is NOT an opportunity for a group people in a room to simply agree with everything said, regardless of outcomes.
All promise, no delivery: We will NOT promise what we can’t deliver. The issues covered are complex. They won’t be solved at a two-day conference. But we will help deliver progress through in-depth, constructive and practical advice around specific issues.

Who attends

Department for International Development (DFID)

The venue

Hotel Casa Amsterdam

Eerste Ringdijkstraat 4

Amsterdam
1097
Netherlands

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Get in touch

For any questions on the conference:

Hanna Halmari
Head of Conferences
[email protected]

Or for more information about sponsorship options:

Anita Thomson
Chief Partnerships Officer
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Registration for the conference is currently open. To sign up, you can do so online here, or get in touch directly for details of group discounts.