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We highlight top environmental and social trends that will shape engagement between corporations and advocacy stakeholders over the coming year and beyond.
Read our current FFGF and take a look at past editions for pointers on managing increasingly intersectional issues.
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The Future 500 team regularly hosts and attends events featuring leading corporate and civil society stakeholders working to advance a more just, sustainable economy. We’d love to meet up with you.
Here’s where we’ll be in the coming months:
The Sustainable Foods Summit will delve into sustainability schemes, regenerative agriculture, and ecological & packaging impacts. Click here for more information and to register.
Join Future 500 at GreenBiz 25 (Feb. 10-12, Phoenix, AZ) — the premier annual event for sustainable business leaders to elevate your company’s sustainability strategies. To register: https://buff.ly/3TxjgGU
We’ll spend two dynamic days exploring emerging stakeholder engagement trends and hear from NGO and corporate leaders at the forefront of advocacy and sustainable business.
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Dr. Anja Brandon will share her journey from techno-optimist engineer to passionate science policy advocate in service of her goal to reduce plastic pollution and its impacts on the marine environment.
Join us on October 8th at 1pm ET for our next virtual CAN meeting: What’s Next for Change Chemistry – Priorities for Corporate Chemicals Management
Our September Corporate Working Group will explore emerging stakeholder engagement trends, hear from leaders at the forefront of biodiversity, corporate political responsibility, ESG trends, and permit reform.
In our Next CAN Virtual, we'll host Nathan Truitt, EVP of Climate Funding at American Forest Foundation, who will share his perspectives on rising scrutiny of the integrity of offsets and the potential for challenging companies for perceived climate-related greenwash via litigation.
We'll dive into the evolving dynamics around nature-related disclosures with Dr. Helen Crowley, a natural systems expert who is the Managing Director of Pollination and the former head of Sustainable Sourcing and Nature Initiatives for luxury goods maker, Kering
The Responsibility of Business in 2024 – The Crucial Year for Business, Politics, and Climate in the USA. March 26-27, 2024, at Marriott Marquis New York.
Connect with a vibrant community of peers and trailblazers at GreenBiz 24 (Feb 12-14, Phoenix, AZ)
Future 500’s next virtual gathering on February 2 on Anticipating Business Risk from the 2024 Election with Nils Gilman, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of Programs for the Berggruen Institute, and the Deputy Editor of Noema Magazine.
Join us for our next virtual CAN meeting on October 5 at 1:00 pm ET with Ashleigh Ross, VP, Strategic Engagements & Policy, Carbon America. She will share with us her insights from two decades in the carbon capture space.
Save the date for F500’s next in-person CAN meeting in Seattle, WA, on September 6 & 7. Not a member and want to learn more? email bsteele@future500.org.
Justin Worland, a Washington, DC-based senior correspondent for TIME covering climate change and the intersection of policy, politics, and society. He will speak with us about the current geopolitics of climate, but he has covered myriad aspects of energy, sustainability, and the environment.
Each spring, the Corporate Impact Summit convenes over 100 hand-picked executives, advocates, investors, and funders to share candid insights and ideas from the front lines of sustainability and environmental protection.
Join Responsible Business USA 2023 in New York on April 4-5 as they will be shaping the future of business strategy. Meet with 750+ CEOs and senior executives from corporate, government and finance communities and understand how to take concrete actions and lead the sustainable revolution.
Our working group seeks to empower our delegates to speak up, teach others, respectfully disagree, and ask tough questions. Please bring your ideas and challenges, and come prepared to actively participate.
Join 300+ sustainability, policy and finance leaders to build the networks, collaborations and learnings that will ensure you navigate the reporting transformation.
Join thousands of leaders — from business, government, solution providers and startups — working together to address the climate crisis across six strategic areas: clean energy, sustainable transportation, carbon removal, regenerative food systems, net-zero buildings and the startup ecosystem.
In our WSCI summer session, we will dive into Future 500’s Force For Good Forecast. We’ve designed this sneak peek to elevate and share the most timely, pressing, and actionable stakeholder concerns with our corporate partners.
It’s time for transformative change — and the circular economy is key to a just, resilient and prosperous world. To meet this critical moment, forward-thinking leaders are embracing circular principles to spur innovation, confront climate change, respond to shifting customer demand and collaborate across the value chain.
Join the growing Circularity 22 community from May 17-19 in Atlanta, GA to move beyond individual action, catalyze systems change and accelerate the circular economy. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3iNNAdD
Register here for 15% off your Circularity 22 All-Access Pass with the code C22FUTURE500
MSCI shares their ESG Trends Watch and gives us a deep dive on corporates pushing net-zero ambitions through the supply chain, and the intersection of climate and biodiversity.
Following our public webinar, “The Force for Good Forecast: Midyear Check In,” Future 500 is hosting an exclusive peer learning event for our Corporate Affinity Network.
Future 500 is hosting a public “Midyear Check In” on the 2021 edition of our annual Force for Good Forecast.
Future 500 will be participating in The Economist’s upcoming virtual event: Sustainability Week US, June 8-11.
Future 500 will be participating in FT Live’s upcoming virtual event: Energy Source Live.
What exactly is a materiality assessment? What does the process look like? And what can your company and stakeholders glean from the results? CAN partners are invited to join us for an interactive “Materiality 101 and Beyond” workshop.
CAN partners are invited to join an exclusive dialogue with Nick Lapis, director of advocacy at Californians Against Waste.
We’re delighted to announce the kickoff of our Women's Sustainability and Corporate Impact (WSCI) Group – a peer learning experience for early to mid-career sustainability and corporate impact practitioners across industries.
Partners of Future 500’s Corporate Affinity Network (CAN) are invited to join a private briefing on Corporate Political Responsibility on February 26 with leaders from the Erb Institute, Business for America, and In This Together.
Future 500’s Corporate Affinity Network will engage with Nicky Davies, executive director of the Plastic Solutions Fund on how the Fund’s three-strategy is evolving and what they’ll expect from brands in the coming years.
Future 500 will be participating in GreenBiz 21, February 9-10. Don’t miss Director Kellen Klein’s roundtable discussion on Sustainability Burnout.
Future 500 will be attending Reuters Next, January 11-14. After the extraordinary upheavals of 2020, the virtual conference will look ahead at opportunities for change and growth in 2021.