Global Overview
Climate change has emerged as one of the biggest challenges of our time. As the global community grapples with the escalating effect of climate change, the concept of achieving net zero emissions has reached unprecedent heights. With climate change posing the biggest existential threat to the world, every country has set their Net-zero targets. The battle for net zero by 2023 is on. Despite progress in recent years, there is still much work to be done.
Countries across globe are making substantial efforts focused on implementing robust strategies and initiatives that align with the agenda to achieve net zero targets.
The Paris Agreement aims to achieve net zero balance in the second half of this century and seeks accelerated action from governments across the globe to meet this goal.
India, being one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing economies, aims to achieve Net-zero by 2070 and has defined a long-term strategy for low carbon development. It is working to accelerate sustainable growth, promote digital economy, implement energy transition and climate action. It seeks to achieve macro-economic growth while focusing on micro-economic inclusive welfare development.
The Business Statement – ESG reporting, standards, and regulatory framework
The road to achieving Net Zero affects all facets of society, posing a unifying challenge for government, communities, and businesses alike.
Talking about India, it is mandatory for the country’s top 1,000 listed companies to produce a business responsibility and sustainability report as part of their more traditional annual financial report. Organizations are already adopting international standards and frameworks such as those for integrated reporting, complying with those standards produced by the Global Reporting Initiative or the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, and their alignment to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Amid rising social inequalities, an unprecedented health crisis, mounting economic pressures, global climate crisis, Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) has emerged as an important facet in decision making among corporate stakeholders where management, regulators, board, and others are using ESG as the lens for the decision making.
ESG and Net Zero Summit 2023
The Global Sustainability Alliance (GSA) is one of the premium properties of ET Edge. It is the largest platform of global changemakers, individuals and organizations who have championed sustainability. There are number of initiatives in different formats like roundtables, webinars, events, leadership dialogues; under the umbrella of GSA distributed across the year.
The upcoming 3rd edition of the ESG and Net Zero is one of the country’s premier dedicated conferences, that provides a common platform for the industry and other stakeholders to come together to discuss the key challenges, learn from the best practices adopted across globe with focus on compliance, regulatory guidelines, and the latest innovations in sustainability.
It focusses on assisting businesses towards more environment friendly practices by tracking and reducing emissions. The summit will convene leaders from government, business, international organizations, and civil society along with a diverse group of experts and innovators to initiate, accelerate and scale-up entrepreneurial solutions to tackle climate change and advance sustainable development.
What can you expect?
Corporate Strategies
High level countries dialog
B2G dialogues & meetings
Better planet & Net zero emissions
Spotlight sessions
Why be a part of
The ESG and Net Zero summit?
Net zero goals & ESG requirements
Net zero goals & ESG requirements
Your organization is working towards net zero goals and need to understand what ESG requirements will be in coming years and what companies need to prepare for
expand your business footprint
expand your business footprint
Your products and services strive to make the planet a better place to live – Meet likeminded potential organizations and individuals to expand your business footprint.
Responsible implementation of the SDGs
Responsible implementation of the SDGs
You and your organization are responsible for implementing the SDGs in varied capacities.
Sustainability
Sustainability
You want to understand and learn what impact Sustainability can have on your business
climate change
climate change
Uncover trends, learn unique perspectives, and engage in discussions on climate change
Meet decision makers
Meet decision makers
You will meet CEO’s/founders/Chief sustainability heads/ESG leaders and more decision makers
Key Topics of Discussion
Climate-aware investing and carbon controls
Green finance – Green bonds and equity
Decarbonization and Low carbon technologies
Climate change and carbon credits
Power Disrupted: Pathways for decarbonizing energy and resources
Green washing
Agenda
- Atul Bagai, Head of Country Office-India, United Nations Environment Program
- Mangesh Wange, Chief Executive Officer, Swades Foundation
- Queenie Nair, Editor – Sustainability, ET Edge Insights
- Sachin Kotak, Partner, Bain & company
Chairperson: Queenie Nair, Editor – Sustainability, ET Edge Insights
- Madhav Pai, Chief Executive Officer, World Resource Institute, India
- Atul Bagai, Head of Country Office-India, United Nations Environment Program
- Aakash Ranison, Author, Filmmaker, Artist, Director – Greener Earth Foundation
Moderator: Purushottam Kaushik, Head, Center for Fourth Industrial Revolution, India, World Economic Forum
- Afroz Shah, Indian environmental activist, and lawyer
Moderator: Sachin Kotak, Partner, Bain & company
- Akhil Mehrotra, Managing Director, Pipeline Infrastructure Limited
- Vikram Gupta, Founder, and Managing Partner, IvyCap Ventures Advisors Pvt Ltd
- Gautam Khanna, Chief Executive Officer, Hinduja Hospital
- Geeta Gurnani, Chief Technology Officer, Technical Sales Lead, IBM
- Sanjeev Duggal, Managing Director, NTPC GE Power Services LTD (NGSL)
Moderator: Mili Majumder, Managing Director, GBCI India & Senior Vice President, US Green Building Council
- Shreerupa Mitra, Deputy Managing Director, US India Business Council
- Rajan Gupta, Executive Vice President & Group Head, Project Advisory & Structured Finance, SBI Capital Markets Limited
- Erik af Hällström, Consul general of Finland, Mumbai
Moderator: Madhav Pai, Chief Executive Officer, WRI India
- Abanti Sankaranarayanan, Chief Group Public Affairs Officer (India & international), Group Sustainability and Group Risk & Economist functions, Member, Group Executive Board, Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd.
- Rajesh Vasudevan, Vice-President EHS & ESG, Cipla
- Abhejit Agarwal, Head, Sustainability & CSR, Axis Bank
- Shankar C. Deshpande, Director, MMR-Heritage Conservation Society and MMR-Environment Improvement Society, Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority
Moderator: Smita Pandey Mishra, Founder, Fandoro
- Smita Nair Jain, Global chief administrative officer, and Sustainability head, Sagility
- Shaayak Chatterjee, Co-Founder, Breathe ESG
- Anup Sahay, Head – Corporate Strategy & Special Initiatives, L&T
Moderator:Jasmeet Khurana, Lead, Climate Technology, World Economic Forum
- Ajeya Bandyopadhyay, Asia Lead, Climate Change, International Finance Corporation
- Vibhuti Garg, Director, South Asia, Institute of Energy Economics, and financial analysis
- Dr. Arvind Bodhankar, Executive Director, Head, ESG Practices, Dalmia Bharat Limited
Moderator: Dhwani Talati Padiyar, Director, Head of ESG and Sustainability Consultancy, Technical Due Diligence, CBRE
- Amit Adarkar, Chief Executive Officer, Ipsos India
- Prashant Singh, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Blue Planet Environmental Solutions
Moderator: Sumnesh Joshi, Deputy Director General, Department of Telecommunication, Government of India
- Richa Bhala, Head of political economic section, US Consulate in Mumbai
- Kartikeya Anand, Officer on Special duty, Finance and skill training, Government of Andhra Pradesh
- Deepak Kumar, AGM, Sustainability, ESG and Climate Risk, Union Bank of India
- A. Ramanjaneya Reddy, Officer on Special Duty, NREDCAP (New & Renewable Energy Development Corporation of Andhra Pradesh Ltd.)
- Aakash Ranison, Author, Filmmaker, Artist, Director – Greener Earth Foundation
Special Guest
Advisory Board
Speakers
Partners
Sustainable Technology Partner
Knowledge Advisor Partner
Associate Partners
Supporting Association
Media Partners
Education Partner
Insightful Partner
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