edie 26 Workshops: edie 26

Join practical, hands-on sessions designed to solve real challenges in real time.

Professionally facilitated and purpose-driven, our co-creation workshops offer delegates the opportunity to collaborate on shared challenges and identify fresh opportunities to spark action. Each workshop will set the scene with short presentation from an industry expert who will share the key facts and biggest opportunities that you need to know.

Limited availability - See the list of workshops below.

Attendees can choose from 8 co-creative workshops; the outputs will be tangible and translatable outside of the event – offering meaningful solutions to those who participate.

Evolving circular economy strategies

As resource pressures intensify and waste reduction becomes a key lever in achieving net-zero and biodiversity goals, circular economy thinking is fast moving becoming an integral pillar of corporate sustainability strategies.

Businesses across sectors are rethinking how products are designed, manufactured, and managed at end of life-transforming supply chains, creating new business models, and driving resilience through resource efficiency. With shifting policy expectations, volatile costs for materials and resources, and growing investor and consumer demand for transparency, the challenge now lies in moving from pilot projects to fully embedded, scalable circular strategies.

This workshop will explore how businesses are turning circular principles into measurable results - reducing waste, cutting emissions, and unlocking new sources of value.

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Energy efficiency and onsite solutions workshop

According to the IEA, industry consumes around 37% of total global energy demand. The transition to a low-carbon economy offers many ways for companies to reshape how they consume and utilise energy to not only hit sustainability goals and reduce emissions but to generate financial value.

There are multiple ways businesses can reduce their energy usage and create an energy strategy that is credible and sustainable. From installation of onsite energy upgrades through to technologies such as CHP, Heat pumps, HVAC systems, there are many pathways that businesses can take to decarbonise operations.

By creating cost-saving efficiencies in day-to-day processes, organisations can create and action a strategy that not only lowers their carbon footprint but also enhances resilience, reduces operational costs, and aligns with long-term sustainability goals, positioning them as leaders in the transition to a net-zero economy.

This workshop will explore how businesses can map their energy efficiency journey, exploring how to improve energy efficiency and build the business case for low-carbon investment to help reach net-zero.

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Developing ambitious Net-zero transition plans

More and more businesses are using transition plans as a means to prove to key stakeholders, chiefly investors, that they are comprehensively preparing for the low-carbon transition.Such plans go beyond targets and also detail investment and innovation plans, plus risk management.

With the UK's 'Gold Standard' transition plan recommendations in place, but with initial framework guidance diverging in the EU, this workshop takes stock of how businesses of various sizes and sectors are approaching the emerging need to produce robust, credible transition plans.

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Mastering your sustainability and ESG reporting

From the widespread changes to the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) to the incoming changes to the UK's Sustainability Reporting Standard (SRS), the way companies report and disclose is evolving.

For many businesses, reporting can seem like a burden, rather than a value creation exercise. Around 45% of companies report they lack the resources to meet non-financial reporting requirements, while many also anticipate challenges maintaining data quality and consistency as reporting volumes continue to grow.

So what do these developments mean for edie 26 attendees? How can organisations best manage and resource the growing range of reporting requirements - and crucially, go beyond compliance to create reports that drive genuine value, engagement and climate action?

This co-creation workshop will explore how businesses can stay ahead of the reporting curve and deliver sustainability and ESG reports that are transparent, impactful and inspire progress towards net-zero.

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Nature strategies workshop

In a time of great ecological instability, the need to act on nature has never been more urgent. And the global challenge is sitting in our own backyard, the UK is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world.

Alongside tackling climate change, how can businesses help to solve the twin crisis of biodiversity loss? What makes an effective nature strategy? And how can that strategy lead to clear actions and new collaborations being formed?

This edie 26 Co-Creative Workshop will see participants share their progress and explore new ideas when it comes to integrating nature and biodiversity into their strategies, and identify the most effective steps and practical actions that can be taken to put the world on a path to nature recovery by 2030.

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Building climate resilience strategies workshop

The physical impacts of the climate crisis are well-documented, but as businesses forge ahead with ambitious ESG goals, one area that needs to be explored is that of climate resiliency. Businesses face numerous physical, financial and reputational risks when it comes to climate, from supply chain disruptions, financial losses and consumer or customer dissatisfaction.

Responding to the climate crisis requires both adaption a response to the current impacts that can negate risk -and resiliency-approaches, strategy and foresight that enables organisations to cope and perform better as climate change exacerbates and the net-zero transition takes shape.

This workshop will explore the key questions and actions that businesses can uncover to improve resiliency in the long run.

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Low Carbon Buildings

As the UK's 2050 net-zero deadline draws closer, businesses are under growing pressure to decarbonise their built environment. Buildings remain one of the largest sources of national emissions, yet progress on reducing these emissions continues to fall short of what's needed.

Globally, the built environment expands every day by an area roughly the size of Paris. In the UK, it accounts for around 25% of total emissions - and up to 40% when construction materials and operations are included. This makes decarbonising buildings one of the most urgent and complex challenges in the net-zero transition.

This workshop enables attendees to share experiences and identify practical solutions for designing, retrofitting, and managing buildings with reduced embodied and operational carbon. It will also explore how low-carbon building approaches can be integrated into broader corporate sustainability and net-zero strategies.

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Measuring and reducing your Scope 3 emissions

Despite growing commitments to net-zero, global emissions - particularly Scope 3 - continue to rise. Currently, only 11% of corporate climate initiatives include Scope 3 emissions, despite the fact that they can account for more than 90% of a company's carbon footprint.

Addressing these emissions is essential to any credible net-zero strategy - and those that have embarked on this journey are meeting challenges in the form of data quality and supplier engagement.

This workshop enables attendees to identify solutions to their challenges in measuring Scope 3 data, setting appropriate targets and working collaboratively across often complex supply chains.

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