Business admits that climate change is becoming a more important issue – However, 8 out of 10 still don’t have a strategy in place!

Join us for this year’s Nordic Environmental Business Forum. Stakeholders, employees, and governments are increasing their demands for a sustainable business. This requires that you effectively integrate your environmental strategies into your traditional business models. You are expected to secure business sustainability and to combine your environmental and economic operational excellence and to show the benefits from financial and non-financial accounts.

These fully packed days will give you new strategies for:

• Making sound environmental business design choices,
• Successfully creating visible and effective CSR reporting,
• Developing winning communication approach to your stakeholders,
• Making your environmental strategy a competitive advantage

You will learn how to actively bring your environmental strategies to the top of the corporate agenda and how to use it effectively to achieve a truly competitive and sustainable business.

• IKEA’s Manager Sustainability and Environmental, Thomas Bergmark, will show you how to make your environmental strategies part of your entire supply-chain to actively control both the environmental and economic effects.
• Danisco Sugar’s Vice President, Søren Hjuler Vogelsang will show you how Danisco successful implemented an integrative business model which has increased both eco-efficiency and ROI.
• Green Cargo’s Director Environment, Erica Kronhöffer, uses internal engagement programs to motivate and assure successful implementation of environmental strategies.

Don’t miss out on the unique opportunity to benchmark your own strategies with your NORDIC peers. In short – this is THE environmental networking opportunity for 2008.

Our expert speaker panel includes:

• IKEA, Thomas Bergmark, Manager Social and Environment
• Danisco Sugar, Søren Hjuler Vogelsang, Vice President
• Danfoss, Malene Østergård, CSR & Environment Director
• Metso, Marko Hakovirta, Vice President Environment, Quality and Technology
• Statoil, Helena Winberg, Environmental Manager
• Umeå School of Business, Lars G. Hassel, Professor
• Green Cargo, Erica Kronhöffer, Director Environment
• Novozymes, Anne Lisa Mortensen Grandjean, Vice president for Sustainable Development
• FORCE Technology, Anders Christian Schmidt, Senior Project Manager
• Brødrene Hartmann, Tomas Schou Winther, Corporate Manager – Business Sustainability and Development
• OECD, Karsten Olsen, Economist
• Posten AB, Per M. Liljedahl, Environment Manager
• COOP, Mikael Robertsson, Environmental Manager
• Novo Nordisk, Lykke Schmidt, Project Manager, Climate Communication, Corporate Branding & Responsibility
• Confederation of Danish Industries, Annemarie Meisling, CSR Advisor
• SveaSkog, Olof Johansson, Senior Vice President and Director of Environment and Social Responsibility
• Toyota, Liis Boman, Manager Environmental Affairs

Be sure to participate in our 2 interactive workshops on June 4th:

Workshop A: Linking stakeholder engagements and interests into your environmental management

You will learn to:

• Understand the benefits of stakeholder engagement as it applies to their organization;
• Identify stakeholders and map the relationships;
• Be able to select appropriate stakeholder engagement to add value to reporting;
• Recognize and avoid potential pitfalls in stakeholder engagement; and
• Prepare an outline of a stakeholder engagement plan for their organization.

The Workshop will give you practical tools to:

• Analyze your stakeholder environment and plan your stakeholder engagement strategy
• Understand stakeholder interests and power • Predict stakeholder action
• Understand the processes and competencies required for effective stakeholder dialogue
• Integrate stakeholder engagement in your environmental work
• Insight into the strategies that stakeholders use to influence business
• Evaluate the performance of stakeholder engagement systems and programs
• Report your business progress

Brian Bacon, Founder and President, Oxford Leadership Academy has led numerous deep-system culture change assignments in multinational corporations, governments and public sector agencies over a 25 year career. His corporate clients have included Ford, Ericsson, Coca-Cola, McDonald's, GE, Goodyear, Pharmacia, Proctor & Gamble, SAAB: British Aerospace, Volvo and numerous other Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 corporations throughout North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

Workshop B: Implement Product Life-cycle Management to successfully manage your environmental strategies

You will learn to effectively identify and use results from:

• The shift from markets to networks and seller/buyer to provider/user business models;
• Reconfiguring business models including the sustainability perspective;
• Work with LCA to obtain correct assessments which will assist you in creating more eco-efficient products.
• Cooperation with all the partners in the entire chain
• Learn to use tools as LCC, EMA and TCA
• Product oriented EMS

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