Grow National: Ripe & Ready - ESG Workshop

Sustainability is becoming essential for meeting consumer demand for transparency, helping us meet our national climate targets, and draw value from waste, water and energy reduction. 

Join Australia’s Food and Beverage Accelerator (FaBA) to explore how adopting and implementing ESG principles as a framework for assessing and reporting on sustainability can help build climate resilience, lead to cost savings, boost reputation and enable you to provide the metrics and measures that stockists and retailers increasingly require.

Key takeaways:

 Understand the requirements of mandatory sustainability reporting

 Access tools to help collect and analyse data on your carbon emissions, and

 Identify the different audiences and formats for communicating your sustainability goals and achievements.

The workshop features presentation and interactive discussion covering climate reporting, the basics of carbon accounting and establishing a carbon footprint, social impacts, and governance structures to enhance your sustainability strategy.

How you'll learn
You'll join 6-hour in-person workshop spread across a day. The workshop will introduce common concepts and terminology related to Environmental, Social and Governance reporting and describe how it relates
to sustainability. You’ll access existing tools and calculators for estimating the carbon emissions of your operations and explore areas for reducing energy usage and waste.
We will look at common areas for resource efficiency in energy, water and waste. Using the workbook, you will record information specific to your business and create actions for data collection ready to implement when you return to your site.

About your presenter
Alex Smith facilitates technological and commercial development involving companies and research teams. Over the last 15 years he has worked with founders and developers in the media and arts sectors and more recently in university projects to deliver digital and physical products. Alex holds a Masters of Technology and Innovation Management from The University of Queensland. As a Lead Facilitator at Australia’s Food and Beverage Accelerator (FaBA) he designs training materials for industry which translate the tools and models of innovation and commercialisation to enable sustainable growth, increased investment, and a smoother pathway to market. Enabling companies to develop real-world change is what drives him every day.

Cost of workshop
A nominal fee to cover catering (tea/coffee, morning tea and lunch)

PREWORK:
Please bring in either 12 months or 1 month of data in the following categories:

- Volume of fuels (in Litres) used for transportation (Find this data in fuel receipts)
- Volume of fuels (in Litres or cubic meters. for gases) used for heating, cooling or running stationary machinery (Find this data in fuel or gas receipts)
- Amount of electricity (in kWh) used on premises (Find this recorded on electricity bills)
- Any additions of refrigerants (in kg) from the maintenance of HVAC.

Or

The amount and type of refrigerant gas contained in each appliance (Find this on the appliance label under “charge” or “name of refrigerant” and “mass of refrigerant”)

Optional

- Water usage in KL (Find this on utility bills)
- Waste volume (If provided to you from your waste provider)

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