Audience:
Open industry. All apparel and footwear industry professionals, regardless of AAFA membership, are encouraged to participate.
Description:
Many companies set Net Zero targets, but struggle to develop and implement the necessary GHG reduction plans effectively and efficiently at scale. Join BSI’s experts as they discuss a structured, effective approach to large-scale, cross-functional Carbon Reduction Management Plans. Areas of focus will include: Identifying GHG reduction strategies, engaging and educating functional leads and supplier, creating an environment of purpose, accountability, and ownership, and financial budgeting and reduction forecasts.
Attendees of this webinar will learn:
- About effective employee and supplier engagement.
- About setting Net Zero targets.
- How to developing Carbon Reduction Management plans to support advancement toward Net Zero targets.
Speakers:
Ryan Lynch
Sustainability Practice Director
BSI Consulting
Ryan has worked with organizations across multiple regions and industries to design creative solutions to drive organizational improvement, improve upon social/ environmental impacts, and mitigate and remedy risks. He leads BSI’s strategy to align standards, services, technology, and global resources to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. He and his team work with their clients to develop and deliver innovative approaches related to clean energy and climate action, circular economy and waste, decent work in global supply chains, among other challenging areas.
Desmond Zheng
GHG and Decarbonization Lead
BSI Consulting
Desmond specializes in Scope 3 accounting and reduction, decarbonization, life cycle assessment, and sustainable engineering, with focuses on renewable energy, environmental economics, and data science. With a background in engineering and renewable energy, he has supported organizations in developing greenhouse gas inventories and management plans, carbon reduction plans, sustainability strategizing, ESG benchmarking, and conducting life cycle assessments.
Moderator:
Nate Herman
Senior Vice President, Policy
AAFA
Nate Herman oversees AAFA’s Policy department, managing the association’s lobbying, policy, and regulatory affairs activities. Nate leads AAFA’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) program, formulating and implementing CSR policy and representing AAFA and the industry on CSR issues before governments, NGOs, and other key stakeholders. In addition, Nate develops all apparel and footwear industry data and statistics as AAFA's resident economist. Prior to joining AAFA, Nate worked for six years at the U.S. Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration assisting U.S. firms in entering the global market. Nate spent the last two years as the Department's industry analyst for the footwear and travel goods industries. Nate received a Masters of Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh in 1994 and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and Economics from the University of Delaware in 1992.
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