Circularity Sessions: Understanding Your Impact
This programme ran on Tuesday, December 5th, 2024, 9.30 AM - 1:00 PM.
How can you ensure that your sustainability innovation has the impact you’re aiming for?
This session will examine and measure environmental impact from multiple angles, from carbon emissions to water quality, and toxic materials to biodiversity.
If you’re considering circular economy options, benchmarking yourself against competitors, or looking to make claims when raising investment or talking to customers, this session will help you understand how.
What You’ll Learn
- Where your product or service has an environmental impact across planetary boundaries.
- The broader impact areas of working conditions, fair pay, and more.
- How to identify the key questions for measuring impact.
- Deciding what impacts to take ownership of in your supply chain.
- Data sets and resources to guide impact measurement.
- Regulatory and policy insights, such as oncoming European regulations on greenwashing.
- Industry language and terminology.
Why You Should Join
- Learn from experts in environmental impact and sustainability strategy.
- Understand how to map and measure your impact and create models that answer critical impact questions.
- Discover where to start and prioritise actions for the most significant environmental impact.
- Gain awareness of your entire range of impacts.
- Access reliable data sets to support your impact claims and strategies.
- Connect with peers on their sustainability journeys.
- Develop skills in sustainability strategy and impact measurement. Learn how to collaborate with expert consultants and build robust impact models.
The people I have met here make it a dream coming in a few times a week! I don't see myself being able to go back to working from home the same way I did before coming to Plus X Innovation, I don't think I could leave the sense of community behind. It really is something everyone who is working from home should try!
Central Research Laboratory has contributed to our journey in many ways: access to a network, manufacturing, procurement services, and workshop facilities. CRL enables us to feel like a slightly bigger company than we would otherwise be if left to our own devices. Being here at CRL as a cohort member, makes it feel a lot more real and plugged in into the ecosystem.
Besides the workshop facilities, the best thing about working in the Brighton hub has got to be being able to collaborate with people in the same building as you. The variety of expertise and experience in the building is awesome.
Through my time at Plus X Innovation my business has turned from a student project into a registered R&D company. My favourite thing about being at Plus X Brighton is having a mini family in the office and a beautiful space to be the best you and make the best connections.
We could not be in a better place to grow as a company. We get amazing support from the Plus X Innovation staff, plus collaboration opportunities with the other inspiring residents and companies. We feel like we’re living in the future of workplaces in the present and that is pretty damn cool.
Meet the mentor
Catherine Bottrill is the CEO and co-founder of Pilio Ltd, an Oxford University spin-out that develops tools to help organizations integrate sustainable practices. With over two decades in energy and environmental management, she focuses on decarbonizing buildings, greening supply chains, and expanding space for nature. Supported by Innovate UK, Catherine leads a project linking fashion brands with cotton-growing communities in Pakistan to address the climate emergency. She also contributed to sustainability strategies for the creative sector with Julie’s Bicycle and holds an MSc from Yale University.
Who should attend?
- Anyone who wants to understand environmental impact to inform decisions about sustainability innovations.
- Founders and entrepreneurs with a sustainability mission.
- Designers and product developers across consumer products, fashion, retail, FMCG, materials development, food, construction, creative industries, energy and other sectors.
- Product marketers who are making marketing claims about impact.
- Anyone seeking impact investment or funding tied to environmental goals such as carbon emissions or biodiversity.
- Anyone interested in business transformation for the new circular economy.
- Anyone developing Net Zero roadmaps for their company.
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