Is your organisation thinking about declaring a climate emergency, but unsure where to start? Or is this a conversation you want to encourage in your workplace?

Join Business Declares, ActionAble and On Purpose on Thursday 23rd April from 6-8pm for an online workshop about the climate emergency and practical steps to taking action.

We find ourselves in unprecedented times, with news about health and the economy eclipsing headlines across the world. The climate emergency? Almost forgotten and yet more important than ever.

So how do we continue the conversation about climate? How can we harness the circumstances we find ourselves in to mobilise people to take climate action?

We understand that many organisations and individuals are fighting to stay afloat amid these challenging times and are having to make large adjustments to the way that they work. This workshop will explore how climate plans can be made and adapted in this new context, and will equip participants with tools and knowledge to sensitively approach conversations about the climate in order to create meaningful impact in their organisations and networks.

The workshop will cover

• Why the time to declare a climate emergency is now

• How to communicate climate issues in these unprecedented times

• How an organisation declares a climate emergency and takes action, including

- Case studies from organisations that have done it

- Examples of effective climate action in the time of COVID-19

- A presentation from Ben Tolhurst about his work as a climate champion at JLL

- A step-by-step guide on how to declare

• Opportunities to connect with other people and organisations, and to ask your questions of Business Declares and the room

Tickets are £5, and support Business Declares to continue to help business declare a climate emergency and take action. Ticket holders will be emailed a link to to join the online workshop w/c 20th April.

Meet the facilitators

Fiona Ellis is a Director at Business Declares. She is an experienced change and leadership development consultant with over twenty five years in private and public sector working internationally with global organisations based in the UK.

Samantha Cooper is an Outreach Specialist at Business Declares Network. After nearly 20 years working for BP, she chose to leave and pursue a more fulfilling path using her corporate experiences to help organisations looking for strategic direction on social impact, diversity and the climate emergency. She is currently working as a Corporate and Financial Strategy consultant for low carbon transition and steering financial capital into net zero solutions.

Ben Tolhurst is a values based experienced blue chip/FTSE100 Managing Director, with a track record in leading organisations through challenge. He is currently the UK Managing Director for Property and Asset Management at JLL and will be sharing his experiences as a climate champion at this multinational firm.

Ellie Austin is a sustainability strategist who helps clients become better businesses. She supports teams to work out what matters, increase their impact and communicate it to inspire audiences. She empowers brands to be authentic, rigorous and transparent about their sustainability impacts. She brings broad-reaching consulting experience from KPMG and SustainAbility and co-founded a consultancy, Twelve, which helps organisations respond to the climate and ecological emergency.

Vineeta Greenwood is a Co-founder and Account Director at Wholegrain Digital, where the ethics driven team make high performance, accessible WordPress -based websites for a diverse range of clients from Ecover to Unicef.

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Business Declares are a group of business leaders, who want to accelerate action on the climate emergency and are working on a voluntary basis.

ActionAble is a series of pop-up events designed to transform conversations around social and environmental challenges into tangible action.

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Edit 16th March 2020: In light of recent recommendations around coronavirus we have decided to run this workshop online and postpone to Thursday 23rd April 6-8pm. Those who have bought tickets before 16th March 2020 and can no longer attend will have the option of being reimbursed.