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Partner event

The Business Case for Water

Event date:

25.02.2025

09:00-

Registration from 8:30 a.m.

Registration deadline:

21.02.2025, 23.59

Venue:

Német-Magyar Gazdaság Háza,
1024 Budapest, Lövőház u. 30.

Entrance fee

For members: 15 000 HUF + VAT / person

For non-members: 25 000 HUF + VAT / person

We would like to draw your attention to the following event, organized by Swisscham Hungary, together with the German-Hungarian Chamber of Commerce, the French-Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and WWF:

When climate change arrives in business  -
water risks in explained simply

Presentation and panel discussion in collaboration with WWF
 

Agenda

08:30 Registration

09:00

  • Opening by Barbara Zollmann (CEO, DUIHK)
  • Presentation by the National Water Directorate General - on request
  • Water risks in Hungary with special regard to economic/industrial water use - Katalin Sipos (Country Manager, WWF Hungary)

What 2025 and 2026 hold for Hungary's climate – information exchange based on a recent climate study. If you represent or are a supplier to one of the following sectors, you are affected by the impacts of climate change, and it is in your best interest to understand how environmental trends may shape and impact your future business strategies: these sectors are food sales, agri-food, energy, transport, construction, mining, finance, insurance, hospitality, media and retail industry.

Panel discussion: 

  • Katalin Sipos (Country Manager, WWF),
  • Anita Simon (Deputy CEO, Sustainability and Circular Economy at Alteo)
  • Zoltán Gazsi (Company Executive, Eisberg)
  • Judit Szalóky Tóth (Public Affairs, Communications, Sustainability Director, Coca-Cola)
  • László Karafa (Sustainability, Quarry Management, Saint-Gobain)

A discussion on the impacts of climate change, water-related risks and their implications for economic actors from a business perspective. How was the problem identified? Where are you in the process of identifying it? What is preventing you from taking action? What decisions have you taken/are you taking? What was or would be a red flag for you? What factors did/should you have considered?

11.30 Networking and buffet lunch