CSRD-DAY2

What "IROs" are in your value chain, and how do you create a good Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence (HREDD) policy on these? What is the link to ESRS S2 - workers in the value chain? How do you prepare for the CSDDD with this? And do you keep this practical and manageable yet ambitious? In conversation with Netherlands Railways (NS), we discuss how we are working on this in practice, and challenges and learnings we encounter in the process. During this session:

• Discover how and why you align with the OECD guidelines

• Learn how to ensure an achievable process with ambition?

• Please ask all your questions around supply chain responsibility, S2, the link to the dual materiality analysis

🗣️ Supervised by : Lara Plandsoen and Annemaren Kingma (NS)

Beyond dual materiality analysis to the process of ESRS E1 data collection: during this session, you will go one step further.

• Go to work on the transition plan that describes the route to meet climate targets (E1-1)

• Learn smart ways to make energy consumption and GHG reductions measurable and reportable

• Learn how to report Scope 3 emissions in a way that makes the auditor happy too

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🗣️ Supervised by Roy Hoogland

How do I make my strategy more impactful? In this session, we discuss that this requires adjustments to your business strategy, business model and position in the value chain.

• Learn from real-world experience how other companies in the CSRD journey are taking the step 'beyond compliance'

• Discover how the DMA (dual materiality analysis) and then data point analysis form the basis for making more impact

• Realise why strategic anchoring becomes crucial after the first CSRD reports.

🗣️ Supervised by Niels Dijkman and Frederique Biesheuvel

As Microsoft's ESG partner, Fellowmind knows better than anyone how to effectively deal with reporting requirements and what steps you can take to adapt and improve your business processes. During this session:

• Learn how to grip and control your CSRD process by making smart use of existing competencies and technologies within your company

• Discover the importance of exploring technological and digital opportunities such as AI for your sustainability strategy

• Learn how a data strategy helps you make the data work for you rather than the other way around

🗣️ Supervised by Merwin Olthof

How do you measure emissions that are not directly under the control of the company itself, but that result from activities such as procurement of goods and services, business travel, waste management, and use of products sold? During this session:

• Learn how to engage with suppliers to retrieve supply chain information

• Get guidance on how to meet your reduction targets in an automated way

• Discover how to retrieve supply chain information and calculate Scope 3 using a customer case

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🗣️ Supervised by Jacintha Verhoef and Jasper Roelants

How do you conduct a meaningful stakeholder dialogue as part of your dual materiality analysis (DMA)? This dialogue is indispensable for companies to understand which sustainability topics are material. During this session:

• Learn how to approach dialogue meaningfully and which pitfalls are best avoided

• Hear from Royal Ahrend how they engage their stakeholders in the DMA

• Meet the tools from SER, which help you engage with stakeholders

🗣️ Supervised by Marlieke van den Tillaar and Dionne Ewen

The ESRS E5 guideline promotes transparency in resource use and environmental impacts and supports the transition to a circular economy in which resource reduction, reuse and recycling are central. During this session:

• Discover how TNO and Royal HaskoningDHV calculate the CO2 emissions and circularity of Renewi's waste streams and learn what the figures mean

• Discover your practical examples to reduce waste and recycle better, so that CO2 emissions decrease and circularity increases within your company

• Get tools to get started right away on reducing, reusing and recycling waste to reduce scope 3 emissions on waste

🗣️ Supervised by Gilbert de Raad, Willem Sterkenburg and Alice Schimmelpenninck

Compliance with ESG legislation is complex. With Software-as-a-Service solutions, Osapiens makes the reporting process easier. During this session:

• Learn how to leverage technology developments and artificial intelligence to make your value chain more sustainable

• Discover how technology solutions automate manual processes and comply with ESG legislation such as CSRD

• Learn how to integrate various ESG laws and guidelines into a coherent compliance system for an effective sustainability strategy

🗣️ Supervised by Stijn Scheepers

CSRD is more than compliance with rules and regulations. Simply complying with obligations is not enough; it is about proactively using data to achieve strategic goals. During this session:

• Go through the 6 steps for effective use of ESG data and improvement potential

• Discover what Conclusion's experts encountered when translating data into insights and improvement

• Learn how to use CSRD to drive sustainable and forward-looking action

🗣️ Supervised by Raymond van Ek, Rutger IJzendoorn and Kees Kerstens

Although most SMEs are not required to report under European sustainability legislation, it does affect them. During this session:

• Learn what the Sustainable Development Goals, the European Green Deal, the ESG, CSRD and the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) mean for SMEs

• Learn how to anticipate these laws and regulations as an SME

• Get an insight into how to organise sustainability within your company within the frameworks of the legislation

🗣️ Supervised by Simon Theeuwes and Rogier Seelie

Banks, supply chain partners and customers will increasingly ask for it: (reporting) your company's sustainability performance. During this session:

• Gives consultancy and engineering firm TAUW insight into the quality that data should be for a CSRD report

• Learn how to produce and use data to actually get started on sustainability.

• Learn how to make sure you can use your data to plan and base actions on

🗣️ Supervised by Jacolien Eijer - de Jong

What does it take to use the CSRD as a driver for impactful action and collaboration in the chain? During this interactive breakout, we will explore the dilemmas and opportunities and:

• Learn how to make smart use of the CSRD as a sustainability professional to accelerate on the sustainability agenda;

• Learn how we can help each other in the chain to develop the competences, knowledge and data to meet the CSRD as quickly and efficiently as possible;

• Explore how to keep the focus on action with impact

🗣️ Supervised by Gijs Derks, Marianne van Keep and Nienke Keen

Both large companies and SMEs see CSRD implementation as a big task. During this session:

• Does the ministry share its activities and plans to support SMEs and first-time reporters with the CSRD

• Government and industry are engaging in a dialogue on how support can be better

• Help the government help you

🗣️Begeleid by Markje de Mik