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JUNE 28-29, 2022  | NEW YORK, AT PIER SIXTY

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Wells Fargo - Track Page
Tuesday, June 28th, 2022
1:30pm to 2:30pm
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How Financial Institutions Can Align With the Paris Agreement

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Aquitania West

To avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change, investment and lending must fund and finance a resilient, prosperous and dignified zero-carbon future. The Science Based Targets initiative, the leading organization enabling the private sector to set emissions reduction targets grounded in climate science, has developed a framework for financial institutions to align their lending and investment activities with the Paris Agreement. You'll hear from one of the architects of that framework, as well as two private-sector professionals with deep expertise in emissions measurement and target-setting.

Speakers

  • Jim Giles
  • Sarah Chapman
  • Tim Weiss
  • Howard Shih
  • Vanessa De La Ossa

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3:00pm to 4:00pm
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ESG Expertise: Raising the Bar for Boards

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Aquitania West

Firms are assessed by customers, civil society, policy-makers and employees –– present and prospective alike –– on their credible intentions and actions to shift their business model toward sustainability. Research has demonstrated that the overwhelming majority of corporate boards, especially in the United States, do not possess the necessary acumen to address financially material ESG issues. The growth of ESG has left many corporate boards unprepared. What are the skillsets and governance structures boards need to successfully navigate the new terrain?

Speakers

  • Helle Bank Jorgensen
  • Yusuf George
  • Hernando Cortina

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Sponsored: Investing in Infinity: The Path to Plastics Circularity

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Majestic

The plastics industry is investing in a better tomorrow. America’s plastic makers have set goals to reuse, recycle or recover 100 percent of plastic packaging by 2040. To accomplish this, we're ramping up capital investment in mechanical and advanced recycling technologies and infrastructure to advance plastics circularity. Recovering more recycled plastic helps reduce plastic waste, greenhouse gas emissions and raw materials needed to make new plastics. It also helps meet growing demand from consumers and brand owners to incorporate more recycled plastics into products and packaging. Learn from industry leaders why investing in a circular economy for plastics is good for the environment and good for business, and what a path forward to get there looks like.

This session is sponsored by American Chemistry Council Plastic Division. Sponsored sessions are sponsor-created and hosted breakouts, created independently by the sponsor without input from GreenBiz. Please note that attendee contact information will be shared with the sponsoring company.

Speakers

  • Martha Moore
  • Jennifer Louie
  • Joel Heilman
  • Jeremy Wallach
  • Craig Cookson

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American Chemistry Council | Plastic Division

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Wednesday, June 29th, 2022
9:00am to 10:00am
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Water: A Rising Tide on the Corporate Agenda

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Aquitania West

The global water crisis is both an economic and humanitarian crisis — an unmitigated risk to global supply chains, profits and the well-being of communities and populations around the world. Through the U.N. Global Compact, CEO Water Mandate and the Water Resilience Coalition (WRC), a growing cohort of corporations recognize that philanthropy alone won’t suffice to solve the global water crisis. They see themselves as playing an increasingly material role in the innovation, collaboration and delivery of investment capital needed to solve the escalating crisis. Leading voices tackle the increased role corporate water investments have in driving meaningful collective action toward a water-positive future.

Speakers

  • Emilio Tenuta
  • Vedika Bhandarkar
  • Mai-Lan Ha
  • Sarah Norman
  • Sami Naim

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2:00pm to 3:00pm
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Private Markets: Capital Arbitrage or Climate Progress?

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Oceanic

An existential climate crisis, a war in Europe and a global pandemic can cause even the most seasoned private equity investor to rethink ‘business as usual.’ Done well, private equity has played a crucial role in modernizing economies and helping companies to restructure efficiently away from the short-termist glare of public markets, and has kept capitalism focused and efficient.

Despite a record year, the $5.3 trillion private equity industry is under pressure to use its influence for impact. PE’s largest investors, institutional investors, are questioning PE’s traditional focus on returns to the exclusion of almost everything else as risky and out of touch. But is it? And what does that mean? Private equity has never been about ‘doing good,’ but it has been very effective at changing capitalism. Can it do it again?

Speakers

  • Peter McKillop
  • Susan "Suz" Mac Cormac
  • Carletta Ooton
  • Zachary May

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Sponsored: Investing in Innovation: The Innovator’s View on Financing the Transition

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Aquitania West

Buildings account for 40 percent of all energy use, and their design and efficiency play a critical role in the clean energy transition. The Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN2) has been derisking cleantech companies for investment since 2014 with its partner, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Hear from innovative residential and commercial building innovators and incubators about how they view the needs and trends in financing to put low-carbon innovation to work.

This session is sponsored by Wells Fargo. Sponsored sessions are sponsor-created and hosted breakouts, created independently by the sponsor without input from GreenBiz. Please note that attendee contact information will be shared with the sponsoring company.

Speakers

  • Trish Cozart
  • Marshall Cox
  • Pat Sapinsley
  • Abhishek Dash

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Wells Fargo

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3:15pm to 4:15pm
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Investing in Gender and Climate: Why, Why Now and How

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Aquitania West

Investing with a gender and climate lens is simply smart investing. The approach promises to amplify impacts and returns by uncovering new investment opportunities, mitigating risk and improving decision-making. It's also an important lever for achieving the objectives of the Paris Agreement and U.N. Sustainable Development Goals by 2050. Women today are disproportionately impacted by many elements of climate change and suffer from a lack of gender equality. But women’s leadership, employment and consumption are also vital for delivering environmental sustainability and resilience. Across sectors, in both developed and emerging markets, this session will explore what we can learn from pioneers in this space to help investors hit the ground running and understand how to bring this approach into the financial mainstream.

Speakers

  • Suzanne Biegel
  • Andrew Lee
  • Jennifer Pryce
  • Shally Shanker

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4:30pm to 5:30pm
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Aligning Retirement Funds With ESG Goals

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Aquitania West

Higher education institutions, foundations and nonprofits are taking great strides to reduce their climate impact and foster inclusive environments on campus. But, a “blind spot” still exists between an organization’s impact goals and their retirement investments. It’s also a blind spot for many employees who are unaware of how and where their retirement assets are invested.

Many retirement funds invest in companies with poor track records on the environment, diversity and racial justice. Failure to offer ESG investment options is not only a significant risk to these institutions and their beneficiaries, but is an opportunity for the asset management and investment advisory communities. How are groups like the Intentional Endowments Network (IEN) working to catalyze the more than $1 trillion in 403(b) in assets to support the transition to a clean and just economy?

Speakers

  • Georges Dyer
  • Danielle Fugere
  • Marina Severinovsky

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