Climate change poses considerable risks to businesses of every size and industry, including more extreme weather events, natural resource scarcity and changing regulations. With Australia now introducing mandatory climate risk disclosure from January 2025, ASIC has called for businesses to ‘start preparing now’. The most significant and complex change to corporate reporting in a generation, this will require more than 6000 large companies to comply over the next few years and produce ESG data and disclosure across their supply chains.
The Impact X Summit Melbourne will gather business leaders, directors and sustainability practitioners to address the future of ESG data and disclosure together. The Summit offers two separate programs for corporates and investors. Speakers will look at regulation and frameworks, nature-related disclosures, improved data collection, and how ESG collaboration and transparency across supply chains can support improved performance and growth.
Andrew Peterson
Chief Executive Officer, Business Council for Sustainable Development Australia
April Mackenzie
Chief Executive, External Reporting Board, New Zealand
Cassandra Williams
Head, Sustainable Finance, Climateworks Centre
Fiona Reynolds
Chair
UN Global Compact Australia
Helen Maisano
Senior Director, Group Sustainability, Optus
Jessica Richmond
Chief Executive Officer, Sumday
Justin Williams
Kate Dundas
Executive Director
UN Global Compact Australia
Michael Mazengrab
Senior Adviser, Owl Advisory by KWM
Nayanisha Samarakoon
Head of Policy & Advocacy Responsible Investment Association Australasia
Rebecca Mikula-Wright
Chief Executive Officer, Investor Group on Climate Change
Yuki Yasui
Managing Director, Asia Pacific, Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero
Day 1
27 August 2024
The first day of the iX Summit Melbourne will help companies prepare for mandatory climate disclosure, understand the regulatory requirements, improve data collection and management across supply chains and learn best practice reporting and disclosure from the companies who are already doing this.
Day 2
28 August 2024
The second day of the iX Summit Melbourne will help investors understand how mandatory climate disclosure will impact their portfolios, learn the latest on disclosure requirements and how greater transparency can improve decision-making and gain insights for better engagement with companies that can lead to improved performance and growth.
Insights from international keynote speakers, led by highly respected climate leaders Professor Dr. Johan Rockström and Paul Hawken along with senior Government policy makers from the Pacific Island and Australia, and across the globe.
Leading expert facilitators will guide participants through a series of presentations, conversations and panels with discussions to deliver 2030 targets in scope 3 emissions reduction, circular economy, EV transition, indigenous knowledge systems, oceans and forests.
Participants will propose solutions for ensuring a just and green transition and explore accelerated decarbonisation in energy, transport, built environment, industry, resources and agriculture.
Innovators representing climate tech startups and scale-ups along with established brands will showcase their climate and nature solutions.
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