Senior Leadership Dialogue at New York Climate Week 2024: Company Investor Engagement as a Catalyst for Climate Action
This event was for C-suite executives and senior representatives from institutional investors as well as select other opinion formers. The session was convened by ERM on behalf of the Council on Sustainability Transformation. Topics included how to how to redesign company-investor engagement to allow business and investors to decarbonize, reduce risk, and create value simultaneously, how climate change creates risk and opportunity for the private sector and the best ways companies can respond; the headwinds and backlash slowing private sector decarbonization efforts and how to overcome them; why business leaders must align and collaborate with investors to ensure understanding and support for climate transition plans.
23 September, 2024
KKR, New York
As leaders gather in Davos to discuss collaboration in the information age, this event was for C-suite corporate executives, senior representatives from institutional investors and select other opinion formers. The session was convened by ERM on behalf of the Council on Sustainability Transformation. Attendees discussed and shared ideas on how to reframe company-investor engagement to accelerate decarbonization and increase resilience. Topics discussed included, corporate climate action is at a critical juncture: robust transition plans that enable greater scale and acceleration are needed; lack of institutional investor support for climate action is one of the biggest roadblocks to rapid decarbonization; and we have to re-design company-investor engagement and build a foundation for better collaboration.
23 January, 2025
Davos, Switzerland
Executive Dialogue Davos 2025: Company-Investor Engagement as a Catalyst for Climate Action
This event was for C-suite executives and senior representatives from institutional investors as well as select other opinion formers. The session was convened by ERM on behalf of the Council on Sustainability Transformation. Attendees discussed and shared ideas on how to reframe company-investor engagement to accelerate decarbonization. Topics included corporate climate action is at a critical juncture, lack of institutional investor support for climate action is one of the biggest roadblocks to rapid decarbonization and the need to re-design company-investor engagement and build a foundation for better dialogue.
14 November, 2024
Baku, Azerbaijan
Senior Leadership Dialogue at COP29: Company Investor Engagement as a Catalyst for Climate Action