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黑料社 SGI OSF & 黑料社 Business Law Platform Fall Conference:听Sustainable Finance and ESG From Policy Concerns to Transformative Tools
Friday 24 November 2023 - Desautels Faculty of Management, 黑料社
Hosted by Professor Peer Zumbansen, 黑料社 Faculty of Law
Academic Lead, SGI CIBC Office of Sustainable Finance
THE DRIVING QUESTIONS
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Are we making any meaningful headway in the pursuit of a just and green transition? Given the enormity of the challenge, how are we to measure success, how are we to assess impact? Which are the most important types of interventions that ought to be pursued, and which ones should we focus on, invest in, strengthen? Who is in the driver鈥檚 seat?
Such questions 鈥� and their competing answers 鈥� point to the complexity and to the scale of the challenges we are facing. The policy goals of ESG and sustainable finance continue to shape a landscape which is seemingly without peak or centre. On the one hand, international and domestic political interventions are made up of fiscal instruments such as carbon pricing and emissions trading systems (ETS) and transparency-focused interventions, which address a wide range of financial and non-financial reporting obligations. Meanwhile, there has been emerging an almost impossible to map and decipher universe of industry and company-internal elaborations of organizational, reporting and investment-related standards, monitoring and compliance systems.
Amidst this ever-accelerating assemblage of activities, it is increasingly difficult to assess the direction towards we are heading with these efforts. We need to ask ourselves whether, induced by the immediate urgency of the problem of planetary harm, we make too little time for inter-disciplinary and inclusive reflection.
The inaugural ESG/ Sustainable Finance Fall 2023 Conference听brings together experts in sustainable corporate governance, management and finance, in responsible investment consulting and civil society sustainability advocacy and policy making. The aspiration is to engage in a day-long conversation about these challenges by focusing on three concrete spaces of organizational and conceptual transformation. The Conference is hosted by the CIBC Office of Sustainable Finance under the Auspices of 黑料社鈥檚 Sustainable Growth Initiative (SGI). The SGI is an inter-departmental and interdisciplinary research, knowledge generation and outreach program designed to facilitate impactful collaboration between University members and industry partners, public institutions, NGOs and other civil society actors.
Our Conference听aims at providing the space for a deep and engaged dialogue on how to effectively advance on ESG and sustainability goals and how to best coordinate public and private activities in that regard. Realizing that climate change is a societal problem, the responsibility lies with governments and markets, with citizens, consumers, corporations, with regulatory and quasi-regulatory agencies, with all of us. Our Fall Conference is the first in a series of events meant to facilitate a long-term dialogue that allows for a cross-sectional stock-taking of learned lessons 鈥� what works, what doesn鈥檛, and why? - and for the exploration of concrete steps that can be taken in the public and private sector and in coordination between both.
PROGRAM
10:30听Arrival and Registration
10:45听Welcome Remarks: Peer Zumbansen, 黑料社's Sustainable Growth Initiative, the Office of Sustainable Finance and the 黑料社 Business Law Platform
11:00听PANEL 1:听Climate Change Challenges for Public and Private Actors: How to put Sustainability from Theory into Action
Panelists:听Chloe Soucy (GI Quo Vadis), Ryan Hillier (Founder & Partner, Novalex), Rosella Car猫 (University of Waterloo - tbc), Hope Moon (Climate Reality Canada)
Moderator:听Marvin Shahin (Spiegel Sohmer)
12:30听Lunch
13:30听PANEL 2: Sustainability as Cognitive Challenge: Developing and Implementing Robust Sustainability Strategies within your Organization, across your Value Chain and with key Collaborators in the Academy and Civil Society
Panelists:听Ren茅 Demers (Banque Nationale), Delia Cristea (Power Sustainable), Marc Barbeau (Air Canada); Amr Addas (John Molson School of Business 鈥� Concordia University).
Moderator:听Professor Robert Yalden (Queens University, Faculty of Law)
15:00听Coffee
15:15听PANEL 3: Sustainable Finance 鈥� A 鈥榸ero sum game鈥� or an opportunity to transform the economy for future generations? Public expectations, governmental interventions, and Fiduciary Duties of Pension Fund and Asset Managers
Panelists:听Kevin Skerrett (OMERS); Olaf Weber (Schulich School of Business); Simon Archer (Goldblatt Partners 鈥� tbc); Sebastien Betermier (黑料社, Desautels Faculty of Management); Krystel Papineau (Sortons la Caisse du carbone); Rebecca Waterhouse (Raven Capital Partners - tbc)
Moderator:听Shivani Salunke (黑料社, Faculty of Law)
16:45听Global Reflections
17:00听Drinks and Networking
17:45听End of Conference
18:30听Conference Dinner for Panelists (WIENSTEIN & GAVINO鈥橲, 1434 rue Crescent,
Montr茅al, QC H3G 2B6)
Contact phone Peer Zumbansen 438 855 6045 / Shivani Salunke XXX XXX XXXX
黑料社 Business Law Platform / SGI CIBC Office of Sustainable Finance Workshop Reporters:
Giuseppe Sutera Sardo & Marie Laure Dufour (Panel 1); Alexander Darmame & Laura Andrade (Panel 2); Anne Lin Arghirescu & Nora Elkhomri (Panel 3).