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🌱 Last week, DisCom played a tiny part in helping Lloyds Banking Group think about integrating nature and biodiversity into its supply chain and sourcing processes. With a huge customer base of residential mortgages and agriculture businesses, flooding and nature loss are very real future risks to the bank. They're increasingly focused on nature as part of their mission to help Britain prosper and align with one of their core values ➡️ sustainability. ⭐️ Curious people, who care, exist everywhere ⭐️ Learning together builds both knowledge and connection ⭐️ The power of in-person collaboration with different stakeholders (which last week included a supplier and a brilliant year-12 work experience student) 🎯 What we did: A full-day pilot workshop where a cross-functional group played the biodiversity collage - a nature-based card game exploring ecosystems, biodiversity pillars and the pressures causing its decline since 1970. The goal? To equip colleagues with the knowledge to consider nature within their roles. 💫 The outcome? Yes, understanding, knowledge and confidence in the topic increased but we also sourced over a hundred ideas directly from colleagues and built an unforgettable circle of trust thanks to an experience that demands attention, collective wisdom and vulnerability. 🔄 Looking ahead: LBG is working on how best to integrate management of nature risk into their supply chain, with dedicated expertise from Ashlyn who will be leading on nature for sourcing & supply chain in 2025. Several participants are even keen to become facilitators themselves! 👏 Delivered in collaboration with Rosie Deane of What On Earth. If you're curious about how these workshops can help bring your stakeholders together, let's chat in 2025!

📣 Would you like a local night out and a free drink? 🍺 Interested in sustainability? ♻️ Keen to do your bit for the planet? 🌍 Then come along to People Planet Pint OR share it with someone you know. 😃 If you live, work, or are passing through Wokingham on Thursday 5th December, come join us at the Rose Inn between 6pm to 9pm in 2024 for the last meetup of the year. 🎟️ https://bit.ly/4eX25Gg People Planet Pint is a monthly meet-up and that meets on the first Thursday of every month. 🌹 (Yes that does indeed mean we'll be back on Thursday 2nd January! 😏) Krystal buys your first drink. 🍺🍷🍹☕️ There's no agenda, workshops or speeches... just chatting and connecting with fellow locals. People Planet Pint is a global initiative founded by Small99 so if you can't make it to Wokingham, check the map to find one near you.

📸 A snapshot of how 7 strangers got to know each other over 3 hours on one Saturday morning, playing the climate game, aka the Climate Fresk, during Woodley's Climate Action Week. We want to normalise workplace conversations about our environment. We do this by bringing people together to build their knowledge and confidence so teams understand what to plan for, adapt to, and mitigate against in a changing environment. 🍒The best part is the deep trust that gets built between a group of individuals - whether that's in a business context, or in the community. 🐝 Next up is the Nature Game, aka the Biodiversity Collage, on Sunday 8th December between 4pm and 7pm. 🎟️ https://lnkd.in/e53biDS3? This is a collaborative, fun and science-based workshop to understand nature, the causes and consequences of its decline, and impactful actions for its regeneration.

📣 Event Sustainability Live kicks off next week - ideal for anyone organising team days, corporate events, concerts, tours, awards, galas, or sporting events. I'm particularly looking forward to chairing a panel on making sustainability accessible for events of every size and budget - featuring 4Good, Legacy Events, and Connection Crew to chat about how to build moments that matter without the excess. Other themes to explore include how to make sustainability work at any scale, the latest trends in event culture, technology and how to sell 'less is more' in a world chasing Instagram moments and endless novelty. #ESLLONDON24 - it's free to attend. 🎟️ https://bit.ly/3Cl8NIN

📣 Climate Fresk is coming to Woodley. 🎉 This Climate Game is taking place during Woodley’s Climate Action Week. This card-based game is a collaborative, creative, and fun workshop that builds confidence and understanding on the causes and consequences of climate change AND connects us with our local community. 📆 23.11.2024 📍 Woodley 🎟️ https://bit.ly/3YuyTBv It's perfect for beginners and experts alike and like any good English gathering - tea & biscuits are being provided - all thanks to Woodley Town Council in partnership with Wokingham Borough Council.

🗽 Back in New York for the 3rd time, but my 1st for New York Climate Week - and no, I didn't come on a solar powered boat. Loving the flight and fascinating conversation with my fellow passenger (who went from photographing exclusive weddings to telling stories at climate events), while grappling with the climate impact leaving me discombobulated - which is precisely why my business is called DisCom. On my packed agenda for my day #1 📣 The Hub Live by Climate Group 🛠️ Site visit for our Impact Hustlers event 📣 Kickstart Sustainability event 📣 kyu House opening debate 📣 CSO Awards North America I'm here to: 1️⃣ Learn about engaging stakeholders with sustainability 2️⃣ Meet relevant climate and nature solution providers 3️⃣ Connect with fellow climate communicators 🤔 First impressions: It's also discombobulating to feel such familiarity in a 'new-to-me' place. As a NYCW rookie, I'll share on the ground updates and key takeaways. Follow along 🔔 if you’re curious.

📣 For any leaders responsible for sustainability within their organisations. The CSO Awards by the @Futur.io Institute provides a platform for thought leaders, innovators, and change-makers. They organise regular meetings including their flagship event at Davos - an executive reception to shine a light on the leadership role of Chief Sustainability Officers. For Sustainability Leaders it is 👇 ✅ A place of belonging ✅ Shared expertise in E, S, and G matters ✅ Cross-sector and international peer-to-peer support 🎧 Check out the CSO Impact podcast interviewing folks like Andreas Wade on building bridges at HVAC leader Viessmann Climate Solutions, Marcia Balisciano on inspiring all company levels to embrace sustainability goals at RELX and Karin Reiter, CSO of Adecco Group. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/emUgy2y8 🛫 And if you happen to be going to New York Climate Week, then you can request an invite here ➡️ https://bit.ly/4ebCauu because you should be in the room too at the iconic One World Trade Center on September 23rd from 7PM to 10PM 🎟️

Olympics Time!! 🤩 One of my personal goals when I set up DisCom was to have the freedom to go on adventures with my family in the summer before the kids got too old - and here I am at the start of a whole month of family time - and let’s be honest - some business planning time too. It almost makes working 24/7 these last 18 months worth it. 🤪 The 2nd half of 2024 is set to be even busier than the first half of 2024 - including planning for several projects at New York Climate Week. People Planet Pint Wokingham is back on Thursday 5th September. 🎟️ https://lnkd.in/eP8KEU9Y See you in September... https://bit.ly/3A0hVkZ

💡Business loves to love innovation. That’s why it's worth knowing about some of the climate tech solutions that are coming online - and not just because they can solve real business problems. They can be your way to a standout story on sustainability and at the same time help bring excitement to stakeholder groups in support of any workplace’s sustainability and transition plans. 🤖 🌱 Here are some of the latest climate tech innovations to follow who are graduating from the Tech Nation Climate Tech Programme. 💡Solutions for business 🚛 KleanDrive - Repowering diesel vehicles as EV’s - need I say more? 📋 Sustained - Environmental Impact Management to help food manufacturers and brands reduce the environmental impact of the products they sell by automating product carbon footprinting and next generation life cycle assessment at scale. 🌍 natcap - nature intelligence to help corporates manage nature risk, set nature targets, and meet emerging reporting requirements. 💫 Solutions with big ambitions 🌊 Seafields with their nature enhancing solution of seaweed-based CO2 removal. 🍄🟫 Really Clever with their fungal discovery platform 🪱 PES Technologies with their soil health measurement solution (and who are already in conversation with World Climate Athletes about integrated their solution into the sporting world so that ground keepers can get better insights to maintaining their pitches) 💚 Solutions that keep redefining what's possible 🛍️ Provenance which help brands communicate their sustainability credentials including claims from supply chain data and third-party proof. 🛰️ Satellite Vu helping any businesses ensure any structure on the planet is energy efficient and supporting the reduction of their carbon footprint. 📦 CLUBZERØ which help offices, education spaces, sports arenas, events and restaurants (and Wimbledon 🎾) across the UK, Ireland & U.S with a sustainable and scalable option beyond single-use with their ‘Packaging as a Service’ platform. 🏠 FurbNow with the first scalable home energy efficiency platform

📣 Share your sustainability success story by entering this year’s edie’s Net-Zero award. 💡 Back for its 2nd year, this award is open to all organisations, with a UK presence, across both the public and private sector to recognise and reward the individuals and organisations that are spearheading the transition towards a net-zero carbon economy. 💫 Webinar with top tips ➡️ 08/07/24 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eaMA-yNW 💫 Entries deadline ➡️ 19/07/2024 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eed624zk 💫 Awards ➡️ 29/11/2024 Choose from 18 categories including a brand new SME of the year, Energy Efficiency Project of the year, or Behaviour Change project of the year. 🏆 The awards celebrates some of the invisible work teams do, inspires stakeholders, and pushes corporate net-zero transition.