Mike Barry Head of Sustainable Business Marks and Spencer @ planamikebarry The Potential of a Sustainable Future

1. Mike Barry Head of Sustainable Business Marks and Spencer @planamikebarry The Potential of a Sustainable Future

4. Our Value Chain 35,000 Product Lines Involving 2,000 factories 20,000 farms 1000s of raw materials 2,000,000 workers Engaging 75,000 employees and 21m customers each week via 1000+ stores and website

5. 2012 a milestone year • Achieved carbon neutral including reducing our carbon footprint by 22% in absolute terms (energy, fuel, gases etc) • Zero waste to landfill achieved and a 31% reduction in waste • Top to UK health food brands: Count on Us / Simply Fuller Longer • Proved & published the business case for sustainability - £105m LY • £3bn sales on Plan A attributed product • Launch of Forever Fish, Shwopping and UNICEF partnership • All wild fish from most sustainable sources available • 5000th Marks and Start participant

6. Journey to become... A value creating business that is carbon positive, wastes nothing, restores the natural environment and improves peoples lives. Sustainable Business Pace and scale of change accelerated • 2015-30 Plan A extended 100 commitments, big impact, Strong business case • 2012-2015 Plan A Single issues managed by team on edge of business. Business Sustainability • 2007-2012 CSR • 2000s Community Investment • 1990s Philanthropy • 1980s Time

7. The Opportunity • Sharing economy – consumption can help the African economy grow but there is a new way of doing it. • Power of mobile – it enables a sustainable future • Resource constraints – feeding the world, waste as a raw material, sustainable bio-fuels • Beyond commodities – Capture more value from production • Smart standards – use standards to demonstrate social and environmental best practice as well as to drive improved productivity and traceability • Extension services – consistent application of best practice • Offsets – Capture value from protecting and preserving Africa’s biodiversity and capturing and locking up carbon. • Renewables– leaping a generation, abundant availability of sun, wind, water and biomass, without having to rely on grid • People – young, female and educated

8. Achieving your potential • Provide leadership - supported by clear strategy and benefits case • Integrate – into sustainability into all that you do – education, medicine, engineering, law etc • Partnership – build new partnerships to deliver mutual benefit with civil society, academia, Government, Business • Consumer/citizen – engage positively in the power and potential for change • Innovation - create new solutions, faster and better and export to the rest of the world

9. Journey to become... Value created that is carbon positive, wastes nothing, restores the natural environment and improves peoples lives. Sustainable Africa Pace and scale of change accelerated • 2025-30 Scale Prove that solutions work • 2015-25 Pilot Single issues managed to prevent ‘bad things’ from happening. Sustainability 2012-15 CSR • 2000s Government Aid • 1990s Philanthropy • 1980s Time