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Autumn 2026 Webinar Series
SW’s Autumn Webinar Series
During October and November 2026 we’re hosting a series of webinars on some of the hot topics that sustainability professionals need to know about. These are subjects that we hear our clients increasingly talking about and that we think will be big in 2027.
Here are the details.
(Please note that these webinars are open to practitioners only – sorry consultants!)
Tuesday 20th October: Climate Risk = Business Risk. What leaders need to know about resilience and adaptation.
Co-hosted by Karen Deignan of SustainabilityWorks and Dr. Cera Slevin of Climate Matters and featuring guest speakers from Irish corporates who will share their climate adaptation journeys.
We’ll cover: Understanding climate risks and their potential impacts; How to undertake a climate risk assessment; Why climate adaptation matters and the business case for action; Developing a practical climate adaptation plan; Common challenges, lessons learned and emerging best practice.
Sign up here: register
Thursday 12th November: Delivering Social Value. Understanding the frameworks, the metrics, and what good looks like.
Hosted by SustainabilityWorks and their UK colleagues from Sustainable Advantage, and featuring case studies from Irish corporates.
We’ll cover: What social value is and why it matters; How the concept of social value is influencing the corporate sustainability narrative; The factors driving social value’s rising prominence in procurement and tendering; An overview of the key social value frameworks and methodologies; Real world case studies from organisations putting social value creation and measurement into practice.
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Thursday 19th November: Embedding Sustainability. How to integrate sustainability into decision making, operations and organisational culture.
Hosted by Karen Deignan of SustainabilityWorks and featuring guest speakers Ciaran Doran, Sustainability Transformation Manager at ESB, and Emer Haughey, Head of Sustainability at Vhi.
We’ll cover: Embedding sustainability into governance and decision-making; Moving sustainability ownership beyond the sustainability team and into core business functions; Building the capabilities, confidence and accountability needed across the organisation; Engaging employees and leaders so that sustainability becomes part of the culture.
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