Effective environmental and energy management is now a business imperative. Management and optimization of natural resource consumption and GHG emissions can’t wait – and it must be highly transparent. In this new era, leading companies and organizations are taking a comprehensive approach to establish an auditable environmental and energy system of record, identify, prioritize, and track reduction strategies and projects, and leverage best practices across stakeholders. Join PricewaterhouseCoopers, Greener World Media and Hara for this complimentary webinar to learn how organizations are making sustainability a competitive and profitable advantage by increasing operational efficiency, maximizing brand and shareholder value, and managing risk.

Register below for this event that will enable participants to:

  • See how Fortune 500 companies are creating business value by optimizing, managing and reporting on resource consumption and outputs
  • Understand how to enable an end-to-end environmental and energy business process from reporting to reduction, across an organization and its value chain
  • Learn about leveraging new technologies, innovation, best practices and benchmarks to drive sustainability success and transform businesses
  • Learn how to make sustainability and resource efficiency a competitive and profitable advantage

Speakers:

Matthew Arnold, Principal, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Matthew Arnold is a Principal with PricewaterhouseCoopers in the area of Climate Change and Sustainability. He was a Director and co-founder of Sustainable Finance Ltd, which helps financial services companies to develop sustainability strategy, manage environmental and social risk and to identify environmentally superior investment opportunities. His clients include commercial and investment banks, insurers, real estate companies, industrial products and development banks. Sustainable Finance was acquired by PwC in December 2008. Prior to Sustainable Finance, Mr. Arnold was Chief Operating Officer at the World Resources Institute, a sustainable development think tank, where he was responsible for 140 employees, a $20 million budget and a $45 million endowment. In 1990, he founded the Management Institute for Environment and Business (MEB) to help business schools and corporations integrate environmental issues into business strategy. In 1996, MEB merged with the World Resources Institute. Prior to 1990 he held positions in marketing with IBM, in investment banking with Merrill Lynch Capital Markets, and in business development with Santa Fe Trading, Hong Kong. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Forest Trends, a market maker for ecosystem services, a member of the US National Academy of Sciences Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability, and a faculty member of the Prince of Wales Cambridge University Business Environment Program. Mr. Arnold holds an AB degree in Psychobiology from Harvard College, an MA in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.


Michel Gelobter, Chief Green Officer, Hara
Michel Gelobter is Chief Green Officer at Hara and one of the country’s leading sustainability and climate strategists, having worked for more than 25 years in business, policy, research, and advocacy on energy, environmental, and social policy. Michel is Founder and Chairman of the Board of Cooler, a for-profit social venture whose mission is to connect every consumer purchase to a solution for global warming. Prior to Cooler, Michel was President of Redefining Progress, the think-tank that helped design the world’s most aggressive climate legislation which was signed into California law in August of 2006. Michel also founded and directed the Environmental Policy Program at Columbia University, worked for the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee, was Director of Environmental Quality for the City of New York, and served as an Assistant Commissioner for its Department of Environmental Protection. He is also a board member of the Natural Resources Defense Council and Ceres

Marc Gunther, Contributing Editor, GreenBiz & Fortune
Marc Gunther is a writer, speaker and consultant whose focus is business and sustainability. He is a contributing editor at FORTUNE magazine, a senior writer at Greenbiz.com and a blogger at www.marcgunther.com. Marc has written FORTUNE cover stories about the greening of Wal-Mart, the Chinese electric car company BYD, and spirituality in the workplace. His book, “Faith and Fortune: How Compassionate Capitalism is Transforming American Business,” was published in 2004. A graduate of Yale, Marc lives in Bethesda, MD..