The Roundtable on Responsible Soy Association still has some early bird passes available
The Roundtable on Responsible Soy Association, the internationally recognised organisation promoting responsible production, processing and trading of soy, announces its final line-up of speakers for the RT12 / Zero Deforestation: Transparency and Scale conference taking place in Lille, France, 31 May – 1 June 2017.
Speakers include representatives from Nestle, World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Proterra, European Commission, Imperial College London and many other key industry partners and academics.
This year’s event, which will attract 250 stakeholders from the global supply chain, will explore practical solutions to achieving continuous improvement in sustainable soy through dialogue with thought leaders within the sector.
The two-day event will focus on deforestation (monitoring strategies and tools; risk analysis; solutions for bridging the gap between legal compliance and zero deforestation), supply chain transparency (challenges and solutions for sustainable physical supply chains; transparency tools; stories from the field) and issues around the scaling up of production (jurisdictional approaches; finance and government; synergies between soy standards).
Early bird tickets still are available at a discounted price.
The full line-up of speakers has been confirmed as :-
Sandra de Bruin - GMP+ International (Project Coordinator) – The Netherlands
Olaf Brugman - Rabobank Markets (Head of Sustainability) – The Netherlands
Stephen Donofrio - Change|Forest Trends (Senior Advisor at Supply) - USA
Madeleine Eilert - Nestlé – (Responsible Sourcing Manager| Cereals, Sugar and Soya) - Switzerland
Rachael Garrett - Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University (Assistant Professor) - USA
Gisela Introvini – Fapcem (Superintendent) - Brazil
Emma Keller - WWF UK (Agricultural Commodities Manager) - UK
Juliana de Lavor Lopes - AMAGGI (Sustainability Director) - Brazil
Lisa Rausch - University of Wisconsin (Research Associate in the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment) - USA
Inke van der Sluijs - Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil – The Netherlands
Kristell Guizouarn - Avril Group (Sustainability Chief Officer) - France
Alejandro Brown – Proyungas (Presidente Fundación ProYungas) - Argentina
Augusto Freire – ProTerra (President) - Brazil
Ryan Sarsfield - WRI: Global Forest Watch (Latin America Commodities Manager) - USA
Daniel Nepstad- Earth Innovation Institute (Executive Director) - USA
Stefan Heinke –Bayer (Global Sustainability Manager) - Germany
Erin Logan – Proforest (Deputy Director Responsible Sourcing) - UK
RTRS’s latest enhancement of its Soy Production Standard (version 3.0) has created the world’s first Zero Deforestation multi-stakeholder certification standard. It is the only multi-stakeholder certification scheme that guarantees zero deforestation in responsible soy production.
