BRC Climate Action Summit
This event is exclusive to Sustainability Leads in Retail.
Scope 3 emissions remain the single biggest barrier to UK retail meeting its 2030 climate commitments — and they cannot be solved by individual businesses acting alone.
During London Climate Action Week, Tackling Scope 3 Together brings together Retail Sustainability Leads for a focused, outcomes-driven day to move beyond ambition and best practice, and into collective action.
Grounded in the BRC Climate Action Roadmap and the Retail Net Zero Stocktake 2025, the summit will examine where progress is falling short, what will shape the next five years, and where collaboration, both within subsectors and across retail, is now essential.
The day culminates in the cocreation of a Draft 2030 Retail Scope 3 Action Charter, setting out shared priorities and next-step actions for the sector.
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KEY TAKEAWAYS
This summit is designed specifically for senior sustainability leaders who are:
- Navigating complex Scope 3 supply chains
- Facing increasing regulatory, investor and data pressure
- Looking to reduce duplication, supplier burden and cost
- Ready to explore practical collaboration, not just discussion
You will leave with:
- A clear view of where UK retail is on track and off track for 2030
- Insight into the regulatory, market and technology signals shaping the next five years
- Identified subsector collaboration opportunities
- Agreed cross-retail priorities for collective action
- A shared draft Retail Scope 3 Action Charter
Agenda
09:30 – Welcome & Introduction
Helen Dickinson, CEO, British Retail Consortium
Setting the context for the day and why collaboration is now critical to delivering Scope 3 progress.
09:40 – Opening Session - No Retailer Can Solve Scope 3 Alone
Exploring why Scope 3 has become a system‑level challenge and why collaboration is essential to unlock delivery.
10:15 – Retail Net Zero Stocktake 2025 - Evidence, Gaps and Provocations
An evidence‑based assessment of where UK retail is on and off track on Scope 3, highlighting key delivery gaps and shared constraints.
11:00 – Break
11:15 – Decarbonisation Pathways - Member Leadership: What’s Working Now
Short lightning talks showcasing where progress is already happening across key pathways, and what is enabling delivery today.
12:15 – Partner Insight - Future Signals 2025–2030
An external perspective on the policy, market, data and risk dynamics that will shape retail decarbonisation over the next five years.
13:00 – Lunch
13:45 – Sub‑Sector Collaboration Labs (Parallel Sessions) - From Shared Challenges to Practical Action
Interactive working sessions by retail sub‑sector to identify practical collaboration opportunities and shared challenges that require cross‑industry action.
15:00 – Break
15:15 – Cross‑Retail Collaboration Workshop - Designing Collective Action on Scope 3
Bringing insights together to define retail‑wide collaboration priorities that are practical, coordinated and delivery‑ready.
16:15 – Closing Keynote - 2030 Starts Now: The Sector’s Collective Commitment
Mike Barry - Co-founder at Planeatry Alliance
Reflections on what effective collaboration looks like in practice and what leadership must do differently to deliver Scope 3 progress this decade.
17:00 – Close & Networking Drinks
Meet the Speakers
Helen Dickinson OBE
Chief Executive
Helen leads the team and sets the strategic direction of the BRC. She joined in January 2013 and has been working with retailers for over 25 years. In 2016 she was awarded an OBE for Services to Retail.
Helen is passionate about diversity and inclusion in retail, she acts as the BRC’s Social Mobility Commission ambassador and was previously the Chair of Working Chance, a charity helping women offenders find employment. She is on the advisory board for Pennies, a charity which offers digital charity boxes to businesses, and was previously UK Head of Retail at KPMG.
Mike Barry
Co-founder, Planeatry Alliance
Mike is a sustainable business transformation agent, committed to helping business big and small, new and established to prepare for and succeed in the complex transformation to a Society, and Economy that serves it, that is healthier, more sustainable and more just.
He’s the co-founder of Planeatry Alliance that’s helping companies transform the food system by linking their work on human health and sustainability.
Mike was until 2019 Director of Sustainable Business at Marks & Spencer, spearheading its ground-breaking Plan A (because there is no Plan B for the one planet we have) sustainability program. He co-chaired the Consumer Goods Forum’s sustainability work bringing the world’s largest retailers and fast moving consumer goods brands together to work on issues such as deforestation, plastics and forced labour. He is a Senior Associate at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and a Trustee at Blueprint for Better Business. And Chair of local charity Greener Henley.
He’s worked with organizations such as Tata Consulting Services (TCS), Consumers International, Bloomberg NEF, ITV, Chanel, Ahold Delhaize, Musgraves, Sainsburys, PwC Japan, Unilever, SAP, Panasonic, Grosvenor GB&I, Haleon, Costain, Havas, Kite Insight’s Climate School, Ball, Nestle, Danone, Microsoft, CCEP, Lidl, Ikea, IBM, Nomad Foods, Oxford SM, 3Keel, The Climate Pledge, the Environment Agency, Which, Royal Society of Chemistry, Food and Drink Federation, British Retail Consortium, Edrington, Lagardere, CoGo
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