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Program

The Corporate Summit program is divided up in three segments: The Plenary Session, The Technical Session and the CEO Summit. Each session targets a unique group of stakeholders with a special focus on corporations in Pakistan. The Plenary session is open to all whereas the Technical session and the CEO Summit is by invitation only.  

The Plenary session will be open to multi-sectoral stakeholders that include corporations, industry, government, the civil society, academia, researchers and the media.  

The Technical session (by invitation only), targets senior management including general managers, Corporate Affairs managers, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) managers, Health Safety and Environment (HSE) managers, and senior level environmentalists. Corporations will be presenting case studies of their work on climate change for sharing of best practices.  

The CEO Summit (by invitation only), an exclusive segment for CEOs will give CEOs the unique opportunity to convene for discussing climate change concerns. The purpose of this session is to urge CEOs to exercise leadership for climate action.  

Tentative Program

Registration: 1000 hrs

Plenary Session: 1030 hrs

• Opening addresses by Minister of Environment, Hon. Hameed Ullah Jan Afridi (to be confirmed)

• Opening address by H.E. Robert Brinkley, High Commissioner, British High Commission, Pakistan (to be confirmed)

• Special addresses City District Nazim (Karachi), Syed Mustafa Kamal

• Presentation by Dr. Adil Najam, Professor, Boston University, USA

• LEAD Pakistan’s Climate Action Program

• A documentary on Climate Change

Technical Session (by invitation only)

• Launching of Ecological Calculator by LEAD Pakistan

• Presentation on “Corporate Response to Climate Change in Pakistan”, Dr. Harish Jeswani, Research Associate, Manchester University, UK

• Climate change case studies by corporations

CEO Summit (by invitation only)

• Presentation on “Corporations and Climate Change” by Dr. Adil Najam, Professor, Boston University, USA

• Presentation on “Climate Leaders”  by Alex Hannant, Programme Manager Climate Change, LEAD International, UK

• CEO discussion on “Exercising Leadership for Climate”

• Climate declaration