Shaping the Future

During the expert session, Karim Benammar engages the audience through methods like a thought-provoking Q&A session and using the Mentimeter app for interactive surveys, encouraging attendees to reflect on their roles in shaping a sustainable future. He shares insights on how you can contribute to addressing climate change by promoting transparency and green practices within organizations, as well as collaborating with other professionals. 
 

• Embracing Sustainability: By promoting transparency and accurate reporting of carbon emissions, you can help organizations reduce their environmental impact and make informed decisions for climate action.
• Maximizing Impact through Innovative Solutions: Shifting focus from profit to impact, you can identify opportunities to save resources and contribute to sustainable solutions by collaborating with other professionals and incentivizing eco-friendly practices.
• Personal Growth through Challenges: Reflecting on complex questions and stepping out of comfort zones allows individuals to learn and grow, ultimately contributing to a better future for society as a whole.

Incorporating these takeaways into your professional role as an accountant will not only help you make a significant contribution towards climate action but also enable personal growth and a deeper understanding of the intricacies of addressing societal issues. Remember, small steps can lead to substantial progress!

In this expert session led by Karim Benammar, the focus is on how professionals can contribute to addressing the climate crisis through their roles. The speaker emphasizes the importance of promoting transparency and accurate reporting of carbon emissions within organizations, creating clear guidelines for measuring, reporting, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

 

Participants are encouraged to help identify opportunities to reduce carbon footprints by conducting energy efficiency audits and performing cost-benefit analyses for renewable energy investments. These actions not only benefit the environment but also potentially lead to cost savings for businesses and individuals.

 

Additionally, organizations and individuals are urged to adopt green practices within their own operations and daily lives to minimize their environmental impact. This includes reducing paper usage through digital communication, implementing energy-efficient designs in homes and workplaces, and promoting telecommuting or flexible working hours to decrease transportation emissions.

 

Collaboration with other professionals, such as sustainability consultants and environmental engineers, is also advised to provide comprehensive climate action solutions. By working together, they can help organizations and communities develop and execute strategies to reduce carbon footprints and achieve long-term sustainability goals.

 

The speaker highlights the importance of creative problem-solving and using resources wisely in our modern society, drawing an analogy to the metaphorical story of the goose that lays golden eggs. The focus is on shifting from profit to impact and considering effective altruism when making decisions.

Reframing

Are you able to challenge your own assumptions? Sometimes a radically different view can offer new possibilities and insights. For example, can you always rely on data? Do we really need to produce this report? Is the customer always right? Is input really the same as output? Is this model the only way to make things work in our company/industry? All our socio-economic systems are based on assumptions. In this interactive session, Karim teaches your team to look at issues differently in order to come up with completely new solutions.

 

Climate Positivity

The climate crisis is the first truly global challenge for humanity. Our solution is mostly focused on doing less: fly less, eat less meat, use less energy. This will buy us some extra time, but it will not get us there. It’s not about doing less of the bad things, but about doing more good things. We need to radically reshape our world, become 'greenhouse gas emission negative' or, with a better word, climate positive. We make choices as individuals, but it is precisely as organisations or professions that we can truly achieve impact at scale. In this interactive session, discover how you can become climate-positive, and how humanity can thrive on a thriving planet by living fully.