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Former President of Ireland and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, with extensive work on climate justice, focusing on equity, human rights and the distribution of climate costs and impacts.
Why environmental messages do or do not change behaviour and how organisations communicate sustainability to different groups, from a co-founder of a sustainability consultancy focused on communication and behaviour.
Climate diplomacy, negotiation and the methods used to build agreement across governments and institutions around a shared climate goal, informed by experience leading the UN climate process through the negotiation of the Paris Agreement.
Clean technology, entrepreneurship and commercially viable environmental solutions, from an explorer who flew a solar aircraft around the world, and whose foundation assembles environmental solutions that turn a profit.
Capital allocation, corporate value and investor decision-making, informed by a finance professor working on responsible business and how markets value factors that are difficult to measure.
Served as a UN Climate Change High-Level Champion and helped build global campaigns mobilising business and cities, focusing on how corporate and city climate commitments are translated into measurable action.
Writer and curator on bioregional economies and how places redesign their material flows, drawing on documented projects to examine local economies, resource use and the redesign of systems around place.
Purpose, corporate values and social responsibility, from a cross-generational pairing on values-led business, drawing on a company built around social mission.
How sustainability is communicated, governed and integrated into leadership and decision-making inside large organisations, from a sustainability leadership specialist affiliated with a university institute.
Political risk, including how climate change can affect stability, supply and investment exposure, from the founder of a political risk consultancy that rates state stability for investors.
Plastic pollution, water and technical approaches to removing microplastics from the environment, informed by an environmental scientist who developed a method for extracting microplastics from water while still at school.
Sustainability within broader questions of growth, development, inequality and the way global systems distribute costs and opportunities, informed by an Oxford economist on globalisation, migration and development.
Sustainability speakers can approach the subject through climate science, economics, circularity, innovation, policy, investment or organisational leadership. That breadth makes the event brief especially important.
A science-led conference, a leadership offsite and an industry event may all use the word sustainability while needing very different sessions. Speaker Ideas can distinguish between speakers who explain the evidence, those who work on policy or transition, and those whose experience is closer to business strategy, innovation or organisational change.
