Empowering Wider Change: Presentation Summaries

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Better Futures: Why Is Net Zero Good for Business?

Green Business London helps businesses to achieve their net zero goals, guiding them in adopting sustainable practices, reducing emissions, optimising energy efficiency, and integrating renewable energy sources into their operations. They offer free, actionable sustainability audits that can help businesses reduce their cost as well as their impact on the environment.

Marta Martinez Environmental Sustainability Manager, West London Business

Marta manages the sustainability programme, Green Business Action, for West London Business. The programme consists of multiple projects delivering free support to SMEs across London. With a background in Engineering and Sustainability, Marta helps businesses navigate their journey to net zero, whether they are starting out and looking to grasp the basics or integrating their plans into their business strategies.

Embedding Wider Change

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Claire emphasised embedding wider change through initiatives such as supporting enterprises, creating community hubs, and fostering healthy lifestyles. The Good Food in Greenwich Partnership, launched in 2014, has transformed the local food landscape by promoting healthy, sustainable, and accessible food for all residents, workers, and visitors. This includes strategies such as endorsing fair trade, reducing food waste, supporting local businesses, and encouraging healthy eating practices in workplaces and communities.

Claire Pritchard CEO, Greenwich Cooperative Development Agency

(GDCA)

GCDA is a charitable co-operative with a mission to support communities to thrive; socially, economically, and environmentally. Claire has grown their work to include public health and training programmes, coordinating Sustainable Food Cities partnerships, managing community buildings, running food growing sites, training restaurants, production kitchens and cookery clubs, a wholesale fruit and vegetable service, supporting street trading and developing new markets.

As well as introducing the great work of the GDCA, Claire announced the launch of ‘Good Food in Greenwich Workplace Charter’ This serves as a comprehensive framework outlining principles and actions for workplaces in Greenwich to promote healthier and more sustainable food choices among employees. Sign up here; https://www. goodfoodingreenwich.org/workplace-charter https://gcda.coop https://www.goodfoodingreenwich.org/