E.ON sustainability champion Dame Ellen MacArthur spoke to business leaders in Liverpool today.
The round-the-world yachtswoman spoke at Liverpool's BT Convention Centre to members of the Liverpool Daily Post's Business Club.
Dragon's Den member Richard Farleigh was set to be in the audience as were representatives of a range of businesses including Alliance and Leicester, Royal Bank of Scotland and glassmaker Pilkington, according to the newspaper.
Business editor Bill Gleeson said: "Dame Ellen should prove a big draw for our members. She has a vast experience of showing endeavour, resilience and coping with stressful and difficult conditions, a theme which should strike a resonant note with many in business at the moment."
Dame Ellen has been promoting the marshal scheme, which sees volunteers promote green practice in the workplace.
This could become increasingly important following claims by an Oxford University physics professor that his methods of establishing the effect of man-made climate warming could lead to victims of climate change taking big emitters to court.
Legal experts speaking to business green said the claims, made to the Guardian, were not yet realistic, but that they could become so in future.
Ben Holland, head of energy disputes at law firm Cameron McKenna told the website: "It is such a fast moving area that it is a bad idea to be completely blind to the risks."
