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A Just Energy Transition: Acting with Urgency
We need all hands on deck to transition away from fossil fuels and build a sustainable future. This panel will explore how we can come together across sectors to accelerate a just energy transition. Hear how cross-sector initiatives are delivering innovative clean energy solutions that benefit people and the planet.
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Accelerating Innovative Solutions to Decarbonize Transportation
Join us to hear about the decarbonization investments, innovations, and deployed technologies that are changing the face of the transportation industry. Members of the panel will discuss policy concepts that matter when it comes to decarbonization, showcase tangible solutions that have been deployed over the last year, and highlight the kinds of public-private partnerships that can enable those solutions to scale.
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Action Speaks Louder Than Words
To spark real change for people and planet, our actions speak louder than words! Imagine a world in 2050, where businesses operate sustainably, powered by renewable energy and producing zero waste as part of circular economies. Collaboration across businesses ensures resilience and continued progress towards nature regeneration.
Hear directly from the changemakers behind the lowest carbon footprint Volvo car to date, women led nature-based solutions for climate disaster response in the Solomon Islands.
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Addressing Emergency Brake Solutions Today Through Partnerships
This panel will address the importance of methane and other non-CO2 gases in the fight to prevent catastrophic climate change, and how partnerships can get us to scale on solutions that have impact today – when it matters most. Project Drawdown will join to talk about the importance of addressing methane and its impact as an “emergency brake” solution. Tradewater will highlight their developing methane program to address actively leaking orphaned oil and gas wells and talk about how Workday’s early support is catalyzing the scaling of this program. Workday will speak about their portfolio approach to proactively address emissions that cannot currently be reduced and the importance of addressing a significant climate challenge that’s historically been overlooked. Tradewater and Workday will also discuss the innovations that made a multi-year offtake possible.
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Beauty of Sustainability – Retail & Brand Collaboration
Ulta Beauty, the largest beauty retailer in the U.S., and sustainable hair care brand Eva NYC discuss the importance of collaboration and strong partnerships for reaching sustainability goals and launching programs that reach an expanded audience for greater impact. This thought-provoking conversation will cover industry leading research, best practices on brand alignment, and an inside look at a successful partnership model for other brands to follow.
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Clean and Resilient Power: Preparing the Grid for 2030 and Beyond
Modernizing the grid may be the most consequential investment we make this decade. Why? Because it sits at the center of two national goals – accelerating decarbonization and advancing economic growth. Both require the availability of reliable, affordable, and clean power, with demands for that power continuing to skyrocket and resiliency against the effects of climate change an imperative. In this session, Siemens U.S. CEO Barbara Humpton and ASCE President Marsia Geldert-Murphey will discuss what steps we can take today that promise to make the most impact by 2030 and beyond.
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Collaboration for a Sustainable Future: How Suppliers Can Help Customers Achieve their Sustainability Goals and Drive Business Growth
This panel will explore how B2B companies and suppliers can partner with cross-sector customers to help achieve their sustainability goals, creating better businesses and a more sustainable future. The panel will highlight successful collaborations, discuss best practices and explore the benefits of partnerships for both suppliers and partners.
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Coffee as a Force for Good: Lessons from Supply Chain Initiatives for Carbon and Biodiversity
Nature-based solutions can help to mitigate and adapt to the many carbon and biodiversity challenges in supply chains everywhere. Watch this session to find out how Nespresso has been working with PUR to revive ecosystems in important coffee-growing communities through carbon and biodiversity initiatives. And discover how studies by Cornell Lab of Ornithology show that such interventions are working, bringing birds back to coffee fields.
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Cultural Sector Opportunities to Respond to the Climate Crisis
The museum is not separate from the biological world. As the realities of the climate crisis continue to transform societies and traditions, MoMA embraces the responsibility and opportunity to raise awareness and address the ways our collective choices impact the environment. In the unique roles of caring for its art collection and acting as a convenor of culture, it is crucial for the Museum to take a long-term, preservationist perspective. Learn how the Museum integrates climate-focused programs into its lexicon and how energy and waste reduction initiatives are changing how it operates with:
Decarbonization in Action: Global Trends & Future Directions
Stay ahead in global decarbonization. Join Claire Perry O’Neill, Co-Chair of the Global Imperatives Advisory Board at WBCSD; Nicolette Bartlett, Chief Impact Officer at CDP; and Felipe Daguila, Chief Customer Officer at Terrascope, for an insightful discussion on the current state of global decarbonization. Moderated by Halcyon Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer Nat Bullard, this session will delve into the latest trends, challenges and opportunities in climate policy and corporate action.
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Decarbonizing the Agri-Food Value Chain: Proven Strategies for Global Suppliers and Brands
Unlock the path to effective decarbonization in your agri-food value chain. Speakers discuss proven strategies for global suppliers and brands to achieve real climate progress across their entire supply chain, including:
Decarbonizing the Built Environment and Cultivating a Sustainable Workforce
The battle against climate change isn't just fought in boardrooms, research labs or political forums; it's a collective effort that spans many fields and functions. With approximately 30% of total energy consumption and 40% of global emissions stemming from buildings, the built environment stands at a critical juncture for transformative environmental impact. Emerging career paths within green initiatives and efforts to decarbonize the built environment highlight the significant opportunities created by investments in sustainable technologies. Discover how diverse roles, experiences, and backgrounds can foster a favorable landscape for accelerating the adoption of green practices, drive meaningful change and contribute to the creation of healthier and more sustainable workplaces and communities.
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DEI: A Competitive Advantage for Sustainability
This session addresses the elephant in the room: the DEI and ESG backlash has brought up new questions about the role of business in solving societal issues. The discussion demonstrates how focusing on your people can bring about game-changing sustainability innovations, in terms of creating workplaces where people want to stay, surfacing novel ideas drawn from a diverse set of backgrounds, and remaining competitive to drive the bottom line. Panelists talk through the frameworks, metrics, and programs that work to bridge equity and sustainability.
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Democratize to Decarbonize: Innovative New Tool Demystifies the Journey to Net-Zero
In the race to decarbonize our economy, the commercial and industrial sectors have flat lined—despite the availability of necessary technology, expertise, and funding—and companies that don’t take action risk being left behind. In this session, learn how companies across the supply chain are overcoming decarbonization obstacles with innovative tools like the DBO™ to achieve economic growth and reach net zero goals.
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Facing the Climate Crisis: Protecting the Future of Food
Protecting the future of wholesome and nutritious food is relevant to all of us. Join Organic Valley CEO Jeff Frank for a presentation and fireside chat about innovative approaches such as carbon insetting, satellite grazing, an adaptive hybrid work model, and alternative capital structures. Gain an understanding of ways Organic Valley’s family farms are working with nature to address the climate crisis and why supporting organic family farms is critical to the future of food and our nation. Learn why these solutions are intrinsic to protecting endangered family farms, the fragile biodiverse ecosystems on which we all rely, rural America, and the future of wholesome food.
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Fireside Chat with Carter Roberts and Lisa Jackson
Lisa Jackson is Apple’s Vice President of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives, reporting to CEO Tim Cook. She oversees Apple’s efforts to minimize its impact on the environment by addressing climate change through renewable energy and energy efficiency, using greener materials, and inventing new ways to conserve precious resources. She also leads Apple’s $100 million Racial Equity and Justice Initiative, focused on education, economic opportunity, and criminal justice reform — and is responsible for Apple’s education policy programs, its product accessibility work, and its worldwide government affairs function.
Carter Roberts is President and CEO of WWF in the United States, a part of the world’s largest network of conservation organizations. Roberts has helped create and deliver some of WWF’s biggest initiatives that combine science, government policy, blended finance, corporate commitments, sustainable supply chains, and the wisdom and rights of communities to stabilize and protect the natural resources upon which all life depends. Under Roberts’ leadership, WWF has negotiated and deployed many debt swap transitions, and is currently actively pursuing sustainability linked bonds and other financial mechanisms to deliver long-term financial flows for conservation.
From Ambition to Action: Achieving Climate Goals with Transparency and Advocacy
Join Ceres’ dynamic mainstage program as we highlight the private sector actions needed to limit global temperature rise in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement and accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and sustainable economy. The program will include an engaging high-level discussion on how investors and companies are taking advantage of federal investments to drive innovation and implementing transition plans that detail how they are achieving their climate goals. Finally, learn how you can be part of the most comprehensive investor call for government action highlighting investors' unified stance for a whole-of-government approach to the climate crisis.
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Growing Green: Cultivating Talent for a Sustainable Future
The growing green economy offers hope and innovative solutions. Hear from climate leaders driving transformational impacts—from a global science giant to a global impact investing platform, a climate-focused education organization, and a pivotal climate action nonprofit. They will provide insights into hiring and human capital trends across climate-related industries, talk about the latest developments in climate education and engagement, share tips on navigating a career path within the green economy, and offer an outlook for the future of green jobs.
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How Can Energy Transitions Balance Growth, Decarbonization, and Human Development?
As climate change intensifies, many low- and middle-income countries face a precarious balancing act between addressing urgent climate adaptation and development needs and pursuing clean energy transitions. While these two objectives can be complementary, they also create challenging choices around meeting human development imperatives and decommissioning or avoiding fossil development. This panel will unpack these choices, and present energy transition strategies that put human flourishing at the center.
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How GM is Driving a Zero Emissions Future
GM Chief Sustainability Officer, Kristen Siemen, takes the Main Stage for an in-depth look into GM’s vision and initiatives aimed at achieving a world with zero emissions. This engaging session will explore GM’s progress towards their climate goals including their renewable energy journey with an increased focus on collaboration to get to a more sustainable future, together.
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How We Finance Climate Solutions at Scale
The climate solutions we need already exist today, but we must unlock the financing to bring this solutions at scale. To do so we need to go beyond traditional financing, even beyond the value chain. Instead of channelling finance to decarbonize companies and their value chains, we need channel finance around the climate solutions that matter most.
How can we be economy smart and climate smart at the same time? Where should we invest more to reduce our impact on nature and reduce costs?
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Innovating Sustainable Travel Together
Join Kate Heiny of Booking Holdings, the world's leading provider of online travel services—including Booking.com, KAYAK, OpenTable, Priceline, and Agoda—as she discusses what is needed across the travel ecosystem to enable a more sustainable future for the industry, communities, and destinations.
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Insurance in the Age of Climate Change
Insurance is not the only answer to protecting against climate change. With the increasing impact of climate change – and the unpredictability of the risks that it brings – global businesses and markets are realizing they cannot simply insure away the problem. Insurance will continue to play a key role in protecting businesses, but it will need to be augmented with additional investment in risk mitigation, business continuity planning and supply chain diversification. Even renewable energy developments – the very technologies businesses are adopting to fight climate change – will need to be proactive and protected.
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Leadership in Action: Insights from a Climate Champion
A keynote conversation with two impactful climate action leaders, Governor of Washington Jay Inslee and Marcene Mitchell, Senior Vice President of Climate Change for the World Wildlife Fund.
Lessons in Catalyzing Change at Scale: Food Service and Hospitality
In this session, you’ll hear from four Compass Change Makers focused on creating ripple effects in the food and hospitality industry and through the conversation, you’ll learn how you can empower change in your organization, take ideas from pilot to scale and create a lasting impact.
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Pathways to Reducing Methane Emissions
During this fireside chat, Elizabeth Bagley and Lauren Singer dive into how to best tackle methane emissions.
Elizabeth Bagley, Ph.D., Managing Director, Project Drawdown is an interdisciplinary environmental scientist and learning scientist with experience spanning academia, business, and the nonprofit sector.
Lauren Singer, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Overview Capital, has consulted on NYC Local Law 84 and Local Law 87 implementation, laid the foundation for EV adoption and policy in New York City under Mayor Bloomberg, and was Sustainability Manager at the NYC Department of Environmental Protection, implementing a sustainability framework on $4B of capital infrastructure projects.
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Peeling Back the Layers: The How of Your Sustainability Goals
No sustainability journey is easy and it’s even more difficult when we have the highest expectations for our customer experience and performance that can’t be compromised. Hear from experts at GM to learn more about what it means to design for circularity without sacrificing quality.
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SCALE Climate Week Action Dialogue
Over the past decade, subnational governments have been critical to the global fight against the climate crisis. Local leaders at the city, state, and regional level have been hard at work advancing bold on-the-ground solutions and making their voices heard during key moments – from their role advocating for the historic Paris Agreement in 2015 to their participation in last year’s COP 28 UN Climate Change Conference, where over 70 national governments recognized their importance and agreed to enhance cooperation through the new Coalition for High Ambition Multilevel Partnerships (CHAMP). In 2022, the U.S. government and partners announced the launch of the Subnational Climate Action Leaders’ Exchange (SCALE) initiative to elevate, equip, and empower these subnational champions around the world. This dialogue, co-hosted by the U.S. State Department and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, will explore the opportunities and challenges these leaders face in advancing ambitious multilevel climate action and share how SCALE is supporting cross-sector collaboration in key sectors.
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Shoring Up: How to Achieve Rapid & Responsible Offshore Wind Development
Offshore wind will play a critical role in stabilizing the climate, which is key to protecting frontline communities as well as the bird species at risk of extinction from climate change. This panel will address where the United States is today in responsibly planning for offshore wind development. Panelists will discuss the role of the federal, state, and scientific, and conservation communities in collaborating on deploying this new technology in ways that are informed by science and community input in coordination with relevant agencies.
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Stop Talking in Circles: Driving Behaviour Change for a Circular Economy
Achieving a circular economy is an essential part of addressing the climate crisis. Businesses and communities are already reducing the need for raw materials through reuse, recycling and repair, and today one of the main challenges we face is how to innovate and scale these solutions to build a brighter future.
This panel will explore the pivotal role of youth in this transformation, their growing spending power towards more sustainable consumption patterns, and the importance of digital technologies for implementation. Join us to learn how we can collectively drive the shift toward a circular economy.
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The Five Goods: How Bansk Leads Value Creation through ESG in the Consumer Goods Space
This panel discussion between Bansk , Bansk Beauty and Woodstream, will dive into tangible case studies on how Bansk better serves consumer needs and preferences to grow brand revenues through ESG with The Five Goods framework. The Five Goods, in order of importance, are: (i) Good for the Consumer, (ii) Good for the Planet, (iii) Good Working Conditions, (iv) Good Governance and (v) Good Corporate Social Responsibility. Bansk also leverages ESG to identify cost saving opportunities more than just offsetting any costs associated with ESG efforts.
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The Role of Geospatial in the Prevention of Climate Risks
In a world of polycrisis, new risks and vulnerabilities are more recurrent, unpredictable and interconnected, putting at threat our global stability, sustainability and well-being. As an insurer, AXA’s role is to support society in adapting to those changes and build climate and social resilience. Prevention plays a key role in climate adaptation and transition: understanding climate risks means being able to better anticipate them and reduce their impacts on societies and ecosystems. The use of recent technologies has increased the ability to prevent climate threats and protect ecosystems from impacts due to human actions (soil artificialization, biodiversity loss, methane emissions). Discover how AXA Digital Commercial Platform innovates to face the challenges of climate change, using the technology provided by their partners expert in satellite imagery and artificial intelligence.
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The Technology Toolkit for Climate Action
As businesses work to reduce emissions and build climate resilience, they have a growing arsenal of technologies at their disposal. Hear from Shannon Thomas Carroll, AVP, Global Environmental Sustainability, AT&T and Dr. Vanessa Chan, Chief Development Officer for the Department of Energy and Director of the Office of Technology Transitions about which solutions are already transforming corporate sustainability efforts, which are emerging as future game changers and where gaps remain in the technology toolkit for climate action.
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Turning Climate Challenges into Growth Opportunities: C-Suite Insights
Join this Executive Fireside Chat to hear how top C-suite leaders are turning climate challenges into opportunities for growth. Gain insights from two executives who are leveraging innovation and strategic leadership to drive sustainable value and navigate evolving technology and regulations. Hear real examples of developing bold sustainability strategies that boost business performance and build stakeholder trust. Explore actionable approaches for leading through uncertainty and fostering growth while committing to a sustainable future. Get inspired by firsthand experiences and empower your team with the vision and tools to lead in a rapidly changing world.
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Time, Place, and Values: Adaptation as Process and Culture
Climate change is commonly treated as a single, global problem that needs to be "solved." This mindset may have been appropriate in the past, but at 1.5°C above the preindustrial average, it's clear that we are not going to solve climate change. Everyone is going to live in a changed and changing climate for centuries to come. In this powerful keynote session, Spencer Glendon, Founder of Probable Futures, will show how essential it is to make adaptation a priority and how doing so can lead to stronger institutions, healthier communities, better food, and even more effective decarbonization.
Unlocking the Toolbox: Tools and Tactics for a Greener Future
The Toolbox was created to help make sustainability more accessible, based on the ethos that ‘when we share, everyone wins.’ The value of The Toolbox is the community that creates, uses and maintains it. We know that the sustainable transition is mission critical, but it is easy to be overwhelmed with the scale of the challenge and where to even begin.
The purpose of the framework is to empower teams and organizations with a set of tools to enable them to join the movement towards a just and sustainable future.
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What We Eat Matters: The Missing Ingredient in Climate Action
Join Jonathan Foley, Executive Director of Project Drawdown, and Maggie Baird, Founder of Support+Feed and mother of Grammy Award-winning artists Finneas and Billie Eilish, for a fireside chat to dive deeper into the inextricable link between food systems and climate change. Through the lens of equity, Jonathan and Maggie will consider the capacity of plant-based food initiatives to reduce the negative impacts of our global food systems and explore ways in which individuals and businesses can work together to drive access, acceptance, and demand for plant-based foods.
Why Solving Climate Change May Depend on What We Eat and How We Grow It
When we think of climate change, we often think of fossil fuels, electricity, transportation, buildings, and industry. But that’s not the whole story. Some 20–35% of human-generated greenhouse gases come from food, agriculture, and land use. And those emissions are growing. The good news? Solutions to curb this impact exist! Jonathan Foley, Executive Director of Project Drawdown, will lead this discussion featuring panelists Alexandria (Alex) Coari (ReFed), Matthew Hayek (NYU), Christy Loper (Robertson Foundation).
Working Together to Break It Down
What actually happens to an EV battery? Is there really such a thing as zero waste? Join GM as they dive into how every piece has a home -- both during its lifecycle and at end of use -- and how collaboration plays a vital role in the lifecycle process.
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Your Marketing Budget is Funding the Climate Crisis. Here’s How to Stop It.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called the agencies working for fossil fuel clients the “Mad Men fueling the madness” - but Seventh Generation, Clean Creatives and their agency partners like Allison PR are leading a revolution in the industry to cut ties with fossil fuel polluters. This session will cover how fossil fuel advertising obstructs climate action, and how sustainability focused brands are leading change to clean up the creative industry, crush greenwashing, and supercharge energy to solve climate change.
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