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BizNGO Annual Conference

Join us this year for the 15th Annual BizNGO Meeting to share, engage and act with other businesses and NGOs committed to embarking on the journey to safer chemicals.

This year BizNGO adapted to ever-present threat of COVID-19 by hosting this conference online!

Agenda

December 8

Session 1: 11:00am - 2:00pm EDT: Confronting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) at the Intersection of Business and Hazardous Chemicals

Brainstorm how businesses, governments, and NGOs can collaborate in addressing DEI and environmental justice.

Featured Speakers for Session 1

Hannah McCall, Founder, Clean Beauty for Black Girls
José Bravo, Executive Director, Just Transition Alliance and National Coordinator of the Campaign for Healthier Solutions
Martin Wolf, Director of Sustainability, JEDI Comittee Member, Seventh Generation

Session 2: 3:00 - 6:00pm EDT: Measuring & Disclosing Chemical Footprints

Engage in best practices in corporate disclosure and how to measure chemical footprints.

Featured Speakers for Session 2

Roberto Bertin, Sustainability, Environmental and Social Strategic Initiatives, Walmart
Antonio Quiñones-Rivera, Product Safety and Sustainability Manager, GOJO Industries
Evelyn Ritter, Director of Customer Success, Toxnot
Cheri Peele, Chemical Footprint Project Program Manager, Clean Production Action
Jennifer Reece, Materials Leadership Program Manager, HP
Lauren Compere, Managing Director/Director of Shareowner Engagement, Boston Common Assest Management
Ross Bergman, Senior Sustainability Engineer, Humanscale

December 9

Session 3: 11:00am - 2:00pm EDT: Responding to Demands for Chemical Transparency

Share your challenges to disclosure—including supply chains, non-functional constituents (impurities), and fragrances—and solutions.

Featured Speakers for Session 3

Bobbi Wilding, Deputy Director, Clean and Healthy New York (invited)
Jon Smieja, Corporate Sustainability Manager, Andersen Corporation
Terri Goldberg, Executive Director, NEWMOA

Join our breakout rooms on the challenges and solutions to:

Fragrance ingredient disclosure (personal care)
Supply chains
Non-functional consituents (impurities)

Session 4: 3:00 - 6:00pm EDT: Getting Ahead with Chemical Classes

Aligning to priority classes and specifying the boundaries of classes.

Featured Speakers for Session 3

Gina Solomon, Principal Investigator, Public Health Institute
Linda Birnbaum, Scientist Emeritus and Former Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and National Toxicology Program
Holly Davies, Senior Toxicologist, Washington State Deparment of Health

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The Chemical Footprint Project gives companies across all industries tools to evaluate their progress in reducing Chemicals of High Concern and proactively identify opportunities for further action,

- Joyce Taylor

CFP greatly simplifies the complex issue of chemicals management. We now have a tool that is available for plugging into purchasing decisions.

- Monica Nakielski

Hazardous chemicals “present reputational, regulatory, and reformulation risks across a broad range of industry sectors. Investors need to understand how companies are meaningfully managing these risks.

- Susan Baker

CFP is a market differentiator and provides a competitive advantage for business leaders. This new tool will add a level of transparency and help companies mitigate reputational and regulatory risks and exploit opportunities afforded by moving to safer chemicals.

- Roger McFadden

The Investor Environmental Health Network welcomes the launch of the Chemical Footprint Project. For too long chemicals and health have been missing pieces in Environmental Social Governance (ESG) assessments. Now we have a tool that investors can use to fill in this critical information.

- Richard Liroff

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