Presentation at CIMA about the opportunities that climate change bring, Particularly for accountants.

1. IdeasPad
Tackling Climate Change through
Entrepreneurship

2. Structure
Structure
● Sustainable Nation
● Climate Change
● Examples
● Trends
● Questions/discussion
● Ideas pad

3. Mandate
IFS2020 …to Support and
develop ideas, innovations and
investment strategies to
successfully transition Ireland to
a low-carbon economy…
National Mitigation
Plan…mandated to promote
Ireland as an international hub
…and will in 2018 undertake a
series of initiatives, under the
banner as Ireland’s
Our purpose is to stimulate greater investment into smart innovations &
projects, new enterprises and sustainable business practices.

4. OurFocus

5. Someofour
Programmes
Supports SMES to develop and scale their business.
- 1-day bootcamps (2oCamp)
- ClimateLaunchpad
- 2oCatalyst
- IdeasPad
Sustainability Skillnet is a company-led training network
funded by Skillnets. Open to all companies to become
members, avail of and suggest training e.g. Responsible
Investing,
40for30
40for30 – a professional network of sustainability
professionals or those influencing the sustainability
agenda.
Thought Leadership events and roundtables, sharing
information & best practice on topics such as green
finance, climate risk and asset management

6. ClimateChange
Atransformational
Opportunity?

7. Exponential
Change
Number of extreme events are
rising

8. APerspective!

9. Opportunity?

10. Irishexamples
● Mimergy
● Maggrow
● Hexafly
● Aquaroot
● UrbanVolt
● Oxymem
● Size/U
● Kingspan

11. Question to you:
● Is it impacting on your business
● Do you see it as threat/opportunity
● Are we just hippies in business
● Are you worried
TheQuestions

12. ● Policy
● Regulation
● Procurement
Drivers

13. Legislation
●Legislation
●COP21
●UNDP
●ESG
●Triple bottom line
●Non financial reporting
●EU directives
●National Mitigation Plan

14. Procurement
20Trillion
●Unilever
●Walmart
●IBM
●HP
●Patagonia
●Johnson and
Johnson
●GE
●BT
●Diageo
●UPS
●Toyota
●Nestle
●Carrefour
●Pepsi
●AkzoNobel
●Dow
●Puma
●BASF
●Colgate,
●Kingfisher
●Marks & Spencer
●US Military

15. ● Capital stack
● Consumerism
● From linear to circular
● Biomimicry
● Natural capital cost
TheTrends

16. ● 90+ Trillion market in defined time (we have
not long left)
● 40+ Billion in Ireland
● 1/3 GDP in supplier value
Opportunity

17. THE BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE

18. Your
Organisation
● Purpose
● Branding
● Staff
● Innovation
● Future proof

19. TheFactors
SPOTcheck
1. Environment, market, customers, direct
competition and suppliers
2. Management team
3. Strategy, marketing, sales, product, process,
innovation, HR, finance resources, financial
planning, systems

20. Thebusiness
case
● Efficiency
● Cost saving (commodities, energy, soil, water,
air, carbon, etc.)
● Business model
● Reinvention opportunity
● Market size

21. TheQuestions
● Does your company recognise climate change as an issue for your business?
● Has your company assessed the risk of climate change to your business?
● Do you have a waste reduction programme?
● Does your company measure and report its carbon footprint?
● Do you measure and report the carbon footprint of your company’s value chain?
● Does your company report sustainability KPIs and metrics beyond carbon emissions
(e.g. waste and water)?
● Does your company engage with your supply chain on environmental sustainability?
● Has your company developed new products and services as a response to climate
change?
● How circular are you?
● How zero are you?
● How regenerative are you?
● Are you applying biomimicry?
● Shareholder or stakeholder?
● What is your purpose?

22. WheretoStart
● Map efficiency, waste, energy, carbon, water in your
company
● Map the (supply) risks
● Put numbers on it (cost)
● Map now and in future
● Check your competitors
● Check your suppliers
● Check your clients
● Attribute listing
● Green attribute listing
● Heresy innovation

23. WheretoStart
IDEAS PAD
● Work on some of those questions
● Identify opportunities/risks
● Facilitated by experts
● Supported by Climate-KIC
● Business focus