Upcoming Member Meetings

CEF’s 2024 Focus – From Goals to Implementation

We have heard you loud and clear: now that you have set your ambitious goals for the coming decade, you are challenged with how to get there. You know the answers will require you to step out of silos and connect the dots – but the pathways aren’t clear.

For 2024, CEF will focus on helping you take the critical next steps in your sustainability journey, uncovering interdependencies – in your organizations, society, and nature – to propel the implementation of scalable, systemic solutions. Collectively we will leverage the depth and breath of the CEF community to explore and work through these intersections and opportunities.

The CEF team will weave this through-line across upcoming programming, capturing many of your strategic priorities while maintaining nimbleness to address the rapid changes in this ever-evolving sustainability space. With so many possible conversation topics, as always, please reach out with ideas that you're hungry to talk about!

Upcoming Virtual Meetings

CEF Member meetings are driven entirely by your priorities and ideas. We stand ready to drive dialogue, support peer-to-peer learning, and spur collaborations to accelerate solutions on the topics you care most about. Please email Amy O'Meara or reach out to anyone on our team anytime with needs, questions, ideas for member dialogues—or simply to brainstorm ways in which we might be able to help you advance your objectives.

CEF virtual events adhere to the Chatham House Rule of non-attribution, unless stated otherwise. Each session is carefully curated for executives from CEF member companies to engage with peers that specifically work on, or have knowledge of, the topic being discussed. Sessions are designed to foster open dialogue, driven by active participation and a shared commitment to progress. To preserve CEF's distinctive culture of trust, openness and camaraderie, we appreciate your thoughtful consideration of the most appropriate colleague to engage in each meeting, and that you kindly avoid distributing invitations widely within the organization.

April 2025

Under the Hood of a Nature Positive Strategy with GSK: Where we are, how we got here, and lessons learned along the way

Thursday, April 3, 2025, 11:00 –11:55 AM Eastern (8:00 AM Pacific)

We’re thrilled to welcome CEF Member GSK for a peer-to-peer “learn out loud” exchange on how GSK's nature strategy came to life. Gain first-hand insight on lessons learned along the way, potential shortcuts to accelerate action, and areas for companies to collaborate to advance impact. This meeting is an opportunity to learn from a fellow CEF member and exchange with your peers on setting up a nature strategy.

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CSO Huddle: Is it Time to Refine the Ground Rules?

Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 11:00 –11:55 AM Eastern (8:00 AM Pacific)

Join your peers to explore opportunities - enabled by this current moment of uncertainty and great change - to improve the existing sustainability ground rules. Discuss areas to engage, collaborate, and negotiate with stakeholders while building broader consensus and finding approaches to more effectively represent the complexity of corporate sustainability and the range of impacts companies can have across multiple time horizons and with practical application.

This meeting series is intended to provide a neutral space for executives with the title or rank of top sustainability or environmental executive within each CEF member company to candidly discuss current or forthcoming strategic business opportunities and challenges unique to their role. With this convening, CEF endeavors to help executives proactively “get on the balcony” with peers to discuss the big-picture issues that will enable them to look around the corner to prepare more effectively and lead continued evolution in the sustainability space. Email Laura for more info.

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Monthly CEF Peer Exchange on CSRD - April

Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 12:00 Noon –12:55 PM Eastern (9:00 AM Pacific)

This standing monthly series is for members to exchange insights and offer peer-to-peer support on all things CSRD.

May 2025

It’s ESG Controller Time! Connect & Exchange with Fellow ESG Controllers

Thursday, May 1, 2025, 12:00 Noon –12:55 PM Eastern (9:00 AM Pacific)

Join fellow ESG Controllers to exchange insights, compare notes, and offer peer-to-peer support on all things related to ESG controllership. From measurement and reporting, to setting up internal and external controls and working with third parties, all topics are on the table for discussion. This meeting is intended for ESG Controllers or those with similar positions.

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Diving into SBTi’s Draft Corporate Net-Zero Standard v2

Thursday, May 8^th, 2025, 11:00 – 11:55 AM Eastern (8:00 AM Pacific)

The Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) initial draft of its revised Corporate Net-Zero Standard is open for consultation until June 1^st. Join members to compare notes and share initial insights, as well as to discuss improvements made and remaining areas of concern.

https://sciencebasedtargets.org/consultations/cnzs-v2-initialdraft?cookies=yes

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Monthly CEF Peer Exchange on CSRD - May

Thursday, May 22, 2025, 12:00 Noon –12:55 PM Eastern (9:00 AM Pacific)

This standing monthly series is for members to exchange insights and offer peer-to-peer support on all things CSRD.

In-Person Meetings

June 2025

2025 CEF ANNUAL EXECUTIVE LEADERS RETREAT

Sunriver Resort, Bend, Oregon (In person only)

June 9-12, 2025

Who Can Attend?

The executive sponsor from each member company determines whom to invite from within their organization.
Each CEF member company's delegation may include 3 senior executives-- usually the Chief Sustainability Officer or equivalent, plus other influential leaders on their team or from other functional areas at the VP and senior director level. At their discretion, sponsors may wish to invite a high-potential "rising star" to join the delegation.