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
Imbibing ESG into core value propositions is the only way to efficiently capitalize on the transformation opportunities. This is pushing companies across sectors towards greater accountability and transparency. The session focusses on understanding how corporates are maximizing opportunities to be able to use ESG transformation as the motivation to drive real change, innovate and create long term value, towards walking the path from a reactive compliance driven approach to a transformative value driven approach.
Report Launch: Our Path to Net Zero: Current state of 2050 Strategy
ESG has experienced a surge in the global investment landscape over the last decade. Underperformance on ESG parameters offers an opportunity for other nations to make the most of investors’ interest in the ESG theme. The session will discuss on the triggers of the ESG-linked investing:
- Green Capex and sustainability/ Green Bonds
- Regulator push
- Supply chain risks
ESG landscape will become increasingly complex, with companies being evaluated on diverse parameters – climate change, pollution, energy saving, biodiversity impacts, employee wellbeing and more. The session will discuss on the following points:
- Key sectors driving ESG growth in India – Renewable energy, electric vehicles, climate tech, green hydrogen, BFSI and healthcare
- ESG’s impact on improving financial performance, driving growth and meeting stakeholder expectations.
- Building a framework for financing the net-zero journey
- Real time technologies for supply chain
- Leading with progress on IDE: Inclusion, Diversity and Equity
The transformation of the global economy towards Net Zero emissions would drive innovation, sustainable development, and create new economic opportunities. It is necessary to invest in low-carbon technologies and scaling up finance from both public and private sources. The special address aims to explore:
- Innovative solutions require technology and financial support.
- Policies that can help accelerate this transition.
- How industries can transition towards net-zero emissions while maintaining economic viability
Technology is vital to achieving carbon neutrality. Startups have a unique role to play while innovating for net zero goals. To reach the ambitious goal of reducing CO2 emissions, new innovative technologies like carbon capture, low carbon fuels and energy storage are needed. The session will focus on discussion around:
- Optimizing operations, improving asset management
- Zero emission start ups
- Power grid analytics, weather data, climate change, and vegetation intelligence monitoring software
- Leveraging cloud for digital innovation
At the core of today’s globalized economy are financial markets through which banks and investors allocate capital to different sectors. The capital allocated today will shape ecosystems and the production and consumption patterns of tomorrow. In addition to the government and companies, there is increased interest from banks, NBFCs, venture capitalists and PE funds in green finance opportunities. The session will focus on:
- Green taxonomy
- Supporting public sector on creating enabling environment
- Promoting public-private partnerships
- Green financing – Bonds and Equity
- Capacity building of community enterprises on micro-credit
- Zero tolerance for Net zero green washing
- Stronger standards for net-zero emissions pledges
- Speedy implementation
- Robust foundation for ESG reporting
- Reducing cost and wastage of resources
- Data integration
To prepare for changing demands and for the growing expectations of companies’ financial and non-financial reporting, action is needed now to assess ESG risks and opportunities for their businesses and on proper ESG disclosures.
Special Guest
Advisory Board
Speakers
Partners
Sustainable Technology Partner
Knowledge Advisor Partner
Associate Partners
Media Partner
Education Partner
Insightful Partner
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