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

Learn about Corporate strategies for finding and building organisation’s route to Net Zero

High level countries dialog

High level countries dialog on ESG’s and Net Zero.

B2G dialogues & meetings

B2G dialogues and virtual meetings to identify potential areas of cooperation and working together between countries.

Better planet & Net zero emissions

Pledge session highlighting the top businesses and conglomerates and their commitment for a better planet and Net zero emissions.

Spotlight sessions

Spotlight sessions facilitating dialogues amongst government agencies for benchmarking and exchanging best practices and ideas.
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

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Climate-aware investing and carbon controls

Green-finance

Green finance – Green bonds and equity

Decarbonization

Decarbonization and Low carbon technologies

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Climate change and carbon credits

Power-Disrupted

Power Disrupted: Pathways for decarbonizing energy and resources

Green-washing

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

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

Atul Bagai
Country Head - India, United Nations Environment Program

Advisory Board

Geetanjali Kirloskar
Chairperson and Managing Director, Kirloskar Systems Limited
Madhav Pai
Chief Executive Officer, WRI
Satya Tripathi
Secretary General, Global Alliance for Sustainable Planet
Sougat Chatterjee
Managing Director, Abhay Ventures

Speakers

Abanti Sankaranarayanan
Chief Group Public Affairs Officer, Mahindra Group
Afroz Shah
Indian environmental activist, and lawyer
Ajeya Bandyopadhyay
South Asia Lead, Climate Change, International Finance Corporation
Akhil Mehrortra
Managing Director and CEO, Pipeline Infrastructure Limited
Anumita Roychowdhury
Executive Director, Center for Science and Environment
Amit Adarkar
Chief Executive Officer
Abhejit Agarwal
Head, Sustainability & CSR
Anupriya Gupta
VP ESG
Anjalee Tarapore
Head ESG
Anup Sahay
Head – Corporate Strategy & Special Initiatives
Astrid Jennifer Dias
Head Sustainability
Ajay Kumar Rastogi
Chairman, Task Force, Sustainable Just Transition & Green Hydrogen, Government of Jharkhand
Akash Ranison
Author, Filmmaker, Artist, Director, Greener Earth Foundation
Bose Varghese
Senior Director-ESG
Chittaranjan Meher
Principal, IBM Sustainability Software Business Unit, India/South Asia, IBM
Dr. Arvind Bodhankar
ED, Head, ESG Practices
Deepak Kumar
AGM- Sustainability, ESG & Climate Risk
Dhwani Talati Padiyar
Director, Head of ESG and Sustainability Consultancy, Technical Due Diligence,
Erik af Hällström
Consul General in Mumbai
Gaurav Pundir
Deputy Secretary, Department of Commerce, G20 Cell, Government of India
Geeta Gurnani
Chief Technology Officer & Technology Leader, IBM India/ South Asia
Gautam Khanna
Chief Executive Officer
Jasmeet Khurana
Lead, Climate Technology, World Economic Forum
Jay Shankar
Chief Economist, Foreign Commonwealth Development Office
Kartikeya Anand
Director & OSD, Ministry of Skill Training, Government of Andhra Pradesh
Lalit Kumar Tiwari
President-EHS & Group Sustainability Officer, Kalpataru Projects International Ltd.
Mili Majumder
Managing Director, GBCI India & Senior Vice President, US Green Building Council
Mangesh Wange
Chief Executive Officer, Swades Foundation
Pradip Kumar Das
Chairman and Managing Director, IREDA
Prashant Jain
Managing Director, GE Power India
Purushottam Kaushik
Head, Centre for Fourth Industrial Revolution, India
Prashant Singh
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Blue Planet Environmental Solutions
Queenie Nair
Editor- Sustainability, ET Edge Insights
Rajan Gupta
Executive Vice President & Group Head, Project Advisory & Structured Finance, SBI Capital Markets Limited
Rohit Sood
Principal Technical Leader - Sustainability Software, IBM Technology Sales, India/South Asia, IBM
Rajesh Vasudevan
Vice-President EHS & ESG, Cipla
Ramnath Vaidyanathan
AVP and Head- Environment Sustainability, Godrej Industries Limited and Associated Companies
Ramanjaneya Reddy
OSD, NREDCAP (New & Renewable Energy Development Corporation of Andhra Pradesh Ltd.)
Sachin Chaturvedi
Director General, Research and Information Systems for Developing Countries
Sanjeev Duggal
Managing Director, NTPC GE Power Services LTD (NGSL)
Shankar C. Deshpande
Director, MMR-Heritage Conservation Society and MMR-Environment Improvement Society, Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority
S Ramana Reddy
VC & Managing Director, NREDCAP (New & Renewable Energy Development Corporation of Andhra Pradesh Ltd.)
Sachin Chaturvedi
Director General, Research and Information Systems for Developing Countries
Sachin Gupta
APAC Sales Leader, IBM ENVIZI Sustainability Software
Smita Nair Jain
Global Chief Administrative Officer, and Sustainability Head, Sagility
Sanjay Mukherjee
Metropolitan Commissioner, Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority
Shreerupa Mitra
Deputy Managing Director, US India Business Council
Sumnesh Joshi
Deputy Director General, Department of Telecommunication, Government of India
Sachin Kotak
Partner, Bain & Company
Shaayak Chatterjee
Co-Founder, Breathe ESG
Shilpashree Muniswamappa
Director- ESG and Communications, Colgate Palmolive
Smita Pandey Mishra
Founder, Fandoro
Sridhar Sarathy
Chief Ethics Officer & Head- Sustainability & CSR, Tata Capital Ltd
Suhas Joshi
India Carbon Initiative Lead, Bayer
Surya Prakash Valluri
Chief Sustainability Officer, Grasim Industries
Shradha Vaid
Partner, Bain & Co
Tejaswini Kamat
Principal-ESG, SBI Cap Ventures Ltd
Vibhuti Garg
Director, South Asia, Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA)
Vikram Gupta
Founder, and Managing Partner, IvyCap Ventures Advisors Pvt Ltd

Partners

Sustainable Technology Partner
Knowledge Advisor Partner
Associate Partners
Supporting Association
Media Partners
Education Partner
Insightful Partner
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Contact Details
Project Head
Akshata Pai
+91 9820879450
akshata.pai@timesgroup.com
Delegate Enquiries
Mili Shah
+91 9930897361
mili.shah@timesgroup.com
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