Amy Bray is Director of Another Way, a UK environmental education charity she founded when she was 16. Through Another Way, she has planted over 30 000 trees, has given talks on climate change, plastic pollution and sustainable living to schools, community groups, businesses and events, and has created numerous resources and certifications to empower people to live more kindly with our planet.  Amy is a committee member for the UN Decade of Ocean Science, and has received a number of prizes including the Cumbria Woman of the Year in 2019 and the UK Prime Minister's Point of Light Award for her work. She is currently in her third year studying Marine Biology at the University of Exeter.

Amy will talk about her experiences as a young campaigner at school, her story founding Another Way, how young people can be equipped with the tools they need to help solve the climate crisis, and how we can all make a difference.  She will also describe Another Way’s new Power of Ten project, a network that will bring together young changemakers from around the world and provide them with the skills and resources to carry out successful environmental projects in their schools. She will also talk about how teachers can support their students in becoming empowered young people with the skills they need to lead and thrive in the environmental or social justice sector.

President of Climate & Sustainability, Co-Founder of SHE Changes Climate, Advisor to the UN
Elise Buckle is President and Director of Climate & Sustainability, a platform of collaboration for change-makers focusing on partnership development for climate, people and nature. She is also the Co-Founder of SHE Changes Climate, an initiative focusing on women empowerment, and Board Member of the Climate Action Accelerator.

Elise is highly committed to making this world a better place for people and nature. She has been working in the field of sustainable development and climate change for nearly twenty years and truly believes in radical collaboration, skillful diplomacy and movement building.
Her vision is that we can all work together as One team for One Planet, going beyond logos, egos and institutional boundaries to address the planetary emergency and shift towards a systemic transformation for climate, people and nature.
She is working both at global and local levels: “thing global, act local” is her preferred mode of action.

At COP26 in Glasgow, she hosted and moderated the COP26 Nature Day focusing on cities and regions, sharing best practices with mayors and local leaders around the world for a nature positive and climate neutral recovery.
She is currently advising the COP27 Presidency team on inclusiveness and diversity.
She has been advising the UN on the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda with a focus on partnership development for Climate, People and Nature.

Giulia is the Director of the Natural Climate Solutions Alliance, a platform supported by WBCSD and the WEF, bringing together public and private stakeholders to identify opportunities and barriers to investment into carbon credits in new, and existing markets, to increase financing for natural climate solutions.

Previously Giulia served as Deputy Director of the Global Business and Biodiversity Programme at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). During her tenure at IUCN, she headed projects in renewable energy, tourism, sport, agri-food, apparel, mining, infrastructure, and oil and gas sectors. She also convened numerous multi stakeholder processes, such as the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative, bringing together global companies in the aluminium value chain and civil society organizations, that led to the first global aluminium sustainability standard. She designed the Cerrado das Aguas Consortio, uniting Nespresso and other global coffee companies with local stakeholders to collectively tackle land restoration; and coordinated the Western Gray Whale Advisory Panel, enabling scientists to provide independent advice to oil and gas representatives and NGOs.

At UNEP, Giulia was coordinating the Tour Operators’ Initiative, the first tourism initiative for sustainability, connecting tour operators and three UN agencies.

Chief, Executive Director Office, UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR).

As the Chief of the Executive Director Office, Jonas Haertle develops and oversees strategic projects for the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), one of the United Nations’ official training organizations, and advises its Executive Director on strategy, mission and activities. From 2010 to July 2018, Mr. Haertle was the Head of the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), an initiative founded by the United Nations Global Compact and leading business school associations. He led the global secretariat and build PRME into the world’s largest initiative on responsible management education.

From 2007-2010, he was the global lead of the UN Global Compact’s Local Networks in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. Mr. Haertle has written and contributed to a number of publications and academic articles on corporate sustainability and responsible education and serves on the advisory boards of a number of education organizations. He holds a master's degree in European Studies of Hamburg University in Germany. As a Fulbright scholar, he also attained a MSc degree in Global Affairs from Rutgers University in the USA.

Julia Marton-Lefèvre was Director General of IUCN from 2007 to 2015.  Prior positions include Rector of the UN affiliated University for Peace: Director of LEAD International and Director of the International Council for Science.   She currently serves on the boards of NGOs, foundations, universities and corporations, and chairs the Board of Trustees of the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT; the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement; the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund;  the Villars Institute Foundation and the  Strategic Advisory Council to  the French think tank, IDDRI. 

The government members of IPBES elected Julia as a member of the IPBES Bureau in 2019.   She has been on the board of ASU’s  Global Institute of Sustainability since its inception, and serves on the Executive Committee of the Global Futures Conference. She lectures regularly on environment & sustainable development topics in various universities including Yale University where she was the Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Environment.

Alban is the co-founder of Beauty Disrupted, conscious beauty for all genders, designed in Stockholm and carefully crafted in the South of France. All Beauty Disrupted products, from shampoo to body wash and shaving, come as luxuriously lathering solid bars that smoothly follow the contours of the human body. Beauty Disrupted haircare and beauty bars are 100% plastic free, certified vegan and completely free of harsh ingredients. The bars come in beautiful packaging made of recycled cardboard and are produced using 100% renewable energy.

Each of Beauty Disrupted’s haircare and beauty bars avoid at least 2 plastic bottles. Beauty Disrupted donate 20% of our profits to organizations that protect the planet and combat climate change and are b-Corp certified.
Previously Alban spent 20 years in the tech industry at HP in various senior international sales and marketing roles and at Logitech as GM across EMEA and APAC. While putting a lot of effort in driving sustainability in these companies, Alban wanted to put sustainability truly at the center of his professional life. When he and his co-founder, Svante Holm came across an article in Forbes that stated that about 80 Billion plastic bottles of shampoos and conditioners are trashed every year and less than 10% are actually recycled, many ending up in the Ocean, they decided to quit their tech careers and created Beauty Disrupted.

Alice Richard is a sustainability catalyst, designing and leading inspiring learning experiences that help bring sustainability and meaningful content to life. As a former innovation consultant, United Nations staff member, and product designer, Alice’s career has been built around products and collaborations that drive positive change. Today, with her sustainability training company Co-CREATE ImpACT, she provides services to a wide range of educational institutions, non-profit organizations, and corporations. She runs Sustainable Development Goal training for the United Nations, designs game-based approaches to energy sustainability for the European Commission and gets big businesses such as Oracle to ‘think out of the box’.

She has worked with a number of international schools in Switzerland including Le Rosey and Ecolint, as well as higher education institutions such University of St Gallen and Boston University, nurturing students changemaking skills and using play to explore the consequences of our actions.

Alice brings together genuine passion for making the world a better place with her 20+ years of experience and expertise to advance sustainability on a daily basis with inclusive, energising and thought-provoking training.

Website:  https://cocreateimpact.com/
LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/alice-richard/

Sustainability Expert
Leader in Water and Ocean preservation
Specialist on systemic change and system-thinking approaches
Passionate about creating real change in the world
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Anne-Cécile is an award-winning sustainability expert. Experienced in driving positive change through international platforms, her work is supported by her impressive qualifications and training from The Tavistock Institute, Harvard’s Executive Leadership Program and WWF. With more than twenty years of experience on a global scale in marketing, sponsorship and management, she has worked with some of the world’s biggest names including NGOs, media outlets, sporting events and international brands. She created Blueshift an agency specialised in sustainability consultancy in 2009. In 2011 Anne-Cécile joined the Race for Water Foundation as director. The Foundation’s core aim was to identify, implement and promote solutions for a new social circular economy around plastic waste, in doing so preserving water and our oceans.