EmpoweredESG® is a unique, next generation, no code risk, compliance, and audit management software designed specifically for environmental sustainability governance. Aligning to major frameworks like TCFD, SASB, and GRI, EmpoweredESG® is able to assist with implementing and designing a full-scale, objectives centric approach to your ESG strategy. EmpoweredESG® provides full risk management capabilities to assess, mitigate and treat risks, informed by a view of the related OKRs and business impacts. Scenarios are created and mapped to the OKRs to enable clear visibility of their effects on the business and ESG reporting requirements. EmpoweredESG® also manages GHG emissions assessments with visibility of the parts of the business contributing to the GHG emissions including third parties and their reported emissions. Learn more about EmpoweredESG® at https://empoweredsystems.com/empoweredesg/.

HASI (NYSE: HASI) is a leading climate positive investment firm. We partner with clients to deploy real assets that facilitate the energy transition. With more than $9 billion in managed assets, our vision is that every investment improves our climate future. For more information, please visit www.hasi.com.

MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for companies seeking to understand and manage their ESG and climate exposures and risks, meet the evolving needs of regulators, and align with the expectations of investors and financial intermediaries. With over 50 years of expertise in research, data and technology, MSCI ESG Research powers better investment decisions by enabling clients to understand and analyze key drivers of risk and return and confidently build more effective portfolios. MSCI Inc. is also the world’s largest provider of ESG Indexes with over 1,500 equity and fixed income ESG Indexes designed to help investors more effectively benchmark ESG and Climate investment performance. www.msci.com/our-clients/corporates

Nasdaq’s position at the nexus of the capital markets ecosystem provides us unique insights into specific stakeholder needs to help corporates navigate complexity and create value while also reducing financial, operational, and reputational risks. As a true partner to the corporate community, we help companies at all maturity levels to accelerate ESG excellence and action their strategies through a combination of differentiated and purpose-built technology, tools, data, and capital market solutions.

Persefoni Inc. is a leading Climate Management & Accounting Platform (CMAP). The company’s Software-as-a-Service solutions enable enterprises and financial institutions to meet stakeholder and regulatory climate disclosure requirements with the highest degree of trust, transparency, and ease. As the ERP of Carbon, the Persefoni platform provides users a single source of carbon truth across their organization, enabling them to manage their carbon transactions and inventory with the same rigor and confidence as their financial transactions. Learn more at www.persefoni.com.

Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Switzerland, RepRisk is a pioneer in ESG data science that leverages the combination of AI and machine learning with human intelligence to systematically analyze public information and identify material ESG risks. RepRisk’s flagship product, the RepRisk ESG Risk Platform, is the world’s largest and most comprehensive due diligence database on ESG and business conduct risks, with expertise in 23 languages and coverage of 225,000+ public and private companies and 60,000+ infrastructure projects. For 16+ years, the world’s leading financial institutions and corporations have trusted RepRisk for due diligence and risk management across their operations, business relationships, and investments.

Sustainable Fitch provides insights, tools and data designed and built to help bring clarity to the ESG financial community, including ESG Ratings, Second-Party Opinions, and ESG Scores. Our focus is, and will always be, on providing transparent, objective and substantive data that enables confidence in decision-making. 

ESG Ratings from Sustainable Fitch provide a quantitative and qualitative assessment of an entity or transaction’s impact on environmental, social, and governance matters, according to third-party published principles and guidelines. We assign ESG Ratings to individual entities, to Green, Social and Sustainable (GSS) and Sustainability-Linked debt instruments, and also to non-labelled instruments. With transparent and granular analysis, ESG Ratings can demonstrate and communicate an entity or transaction’s sustainability credentials to key stakeholders with an absolute scale for comparability.

Davies is Proud to be America’s Office Furniture Solution Provider. For over 70 years, Davies has been at the forefront of the sustainability movement with our sustainable recycling programs and remanufacturing of grade A Office Furniture Systems from industry leaders like Steelcase, Haworth, Herman Miller, Knoll, etc... into fully customized, "like-new" condition at a fraction of the price of our competitors. We put an emphasis on delivering value and closing material loops because we believe in innovation, creation and waste reduction. Visit our Booth to learn how we can get you into the office of your dreams.

FiscalNote ESG Solutions empowers organizations to take charge of their entire ESG strategy through technology and expertise. Choose from a combination of the Equilibrium award-winning platform, a global advisory service, essential ESG intelligence, and a peer community. From getting started with strategic insights, benchmarking, reporting, and getting audit ready to embedding ESG into your organization’s DNA, FiscalNote ESG Solutions is tailored to fit your organization's unique ESG journey. 

At Greenstone, we provide award-winning sustainability and ESG reporting software solutions that enable our clients to achieve their sustainability goals and become responsible businesses. Greenstone has been providing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions since 2007 and our clients are currently in over 100 countries worldwide across 15 industry sectors. Through our suite of sustainability, supply chain and ESG software solutions we enable our clients to collect, manage and analyse the data required to inform and support their sustainability journeys. We build long-term partnerships with our clients and constantly develop and innovate to stay ahead of their evolving sustainability and ESG management and reporting requirements.

Manifest Climate is a climate intelligence SaaS platform that combines cutting-edge technology, an industry-leading database of climate disclosures, and ongoing support from climate experts to deliver best-in-class climate guidance at scale. It provides an easier, faster, and more cost-effective way for organizations to build climate competency, stay on top of key climate trends and the climate-related performance of peers, understand how to improve their climate actions and disclosures and build resilience to the impact of climate change on their business. To learn more, visit manifestclimate.com

Patch is a platform for negative emissions. It integrates with businesses to calculate their carbon footprint and systematically compensates by funding verified carbon removal projects. Whether 1 kilogram or 1000 tonnes of carbon-dioxide, Patch helps automate sustainability goals with just a few lines of code. Our API gives developers the opportunity to leverage data already captured to neutralize their carbon impact via a diverse selection of carbon sequestration projects. 

For 30 years, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has been transforming how our buildings, cities and communities are designed, constructed and operated through LEED, the world’s most widely used green building system, with more than 120,000 buildings participating today. 

USGBC is committed to transforming how our buildings are designed, constructed and operated. Our vision is that buildings and communities will regenerate and sustain the health and vitality of all life within a generation. Our mission is to transform how buildings and communities are designed, built and operated, enabling an environmentally and socially responsible, healthy, and prosperous environment that improves the quality of life. Learn more about USGBC.

WAP Sustainability provides ESG services to asset managers, private equity firms and investment banks around the world. WAP was built to accelerate ESG performance across the investment portfolio while creating consistent ESG data that empowers governance at the Board / Management level. Core services include ESG Scoring & Assessment and Carbon Accounting (Operational and Product level) Services. Unique services include ESG Performance Contracting, Portfolio Wide Carbon Accounting, ESG Due Diligence and ESG Preparedness. Learn more at www.wapsustainability.com.

The Open Group is a global consortium that enables the achievement of business objectives through technology standards. Our diverse membership of more than 850 organizations includes customers, systems and solutions suppliers, tool vendors, integrators, academics, and consultants across multiple industries. Further information on The Open Group can be found at www.opengroup.org. 

In 2020, The Open Group launched the Open Footprint™ Forum with the aim of developing open, vendor-neutral standards to enable consistent measurement of environmental Footprint data. Find out more at https://www.opengroup.org/openfootprint-forum

The Intentional Endowments Network is a non-profit, peer-learning network advancing intentionally designed endowments – those that seek to enhance financial performance by making investments that advance an equitable, low carbon, and regenerative economy. Working closely with leading organizations, the network engages leaders and key stakeholders from higher education, foundations, business, and nonprofits. It provides opportunities for learning and education, peer networking, convening, thought leadership and information exchange around a variety of strategies (e.g., ESG integration, impact investing, and shareholder engagement).

Our aim is to transform finance to make sustainable business, business as usual. Accounting for Sustainability (A4S) was established by HM King Charles III in 2004, when he was The Prince of Wales, “to help ensure that we are not battling to meet 21st century challenges with, at best, 20th century decision making and reporting systems.” A4S aims to inspire action by finance leaders to drive a fundamental shift towards resilient business models and a sustainable economy.

GARP is the leading professional association for risk managers, dedicated to the advancement of the profession through education, research, and the promotion of best practices.

Here at ESG Today, we believe that ESG will be the most important investment theme of the next decade.  And we’ll be here to report on it in real time, finding companies that either hit or miss on ESG issues, discovering which investment managers are ahead or behind the curve, and helping our readers navigate the risks and opportunities of the new world of sustainable finance and investing. Whether you’re looking to avoid ESG risk in your investments, pursue an active sustainable investment strategy, or find an ESG-savvy investment manager, ESG Today will be your source of news, research, information and analysis.

The Council for Inclusive Capitalism is a global movement of leaders doing business in ways that benefit people, our communities, and the planet. We invite global business leaders—whether of a small community business or international conglomerate—to join us and put forth commitments to enlightened business actions necessary for the fairer, more dynamic economies and societies we need.

When our members take action and work together, we have the ability to advance market moving reforms. Collectively, our efforts can reshape the way capitalism works to improve the lives of people across the globe.

Verra was founded in 2007 by environmental and business leaders who saw the need for greater quality assurance in voluntary carbon markets. We now manage the world’s leading voluntary carbon markets program, the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Program, as well as a suite of other programs, incubate new ideas to generate meaningful environmental and social value at scale, and advance the use of these programs worldwide.

PCAF is a global partnership of financial institutions that work together to develop and implement a harmonized approach to assess and disclose the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with their loans and investments.

The harmonized accounting approach provides financial institutions with the starting point required to set science-based targets and align their portfolio with the Paris Climate Agreement. PCAF enables transparency and accountability and has developed an open-source global GHG accounting standard for financial institutions, the Global GHG Accounting and Reporting Standard for the Financial Industry.

Climate Action 100+ has become the largest ever global investor engagement initiative on climate change, with growing influence and impact. Since launch Climate Action 100+ has experienced 170+ percent growth in investor participation. Investors working through the initiative are now engaged across 33 markets and represent over 50 percent of all global assets under management.

The Shareholder Commons (TSC) addresses social and environmental issues from the perspective of shareholders who diversify their investments to optimize risk and return. Our advocacy focuses on the divergence that often emerges between a company’s interest in maximizing its cash flows over the long term and its shareholders’ interests in optimizing overall market returns.

Competent Boards™ is the original and premier creator of online environment, social, governance (ESG) and Climate training programs for board directors and senior business professionals.

Our world-class professional development and advisory services help inform boards what is needed to respond successfully to today’s enormous economic, environmental and social challenges. More than 150 of the world’s leading board members, C-suite executives, investors and other experts make up our faculty who contribute to our Designation and Certificate programs. Their knowledge enables us to bring better decision-making and oversight to boardrooms and C-suites around the world.

Although we are headquartered in Toronto, Canada, our remote programs touch all regions of the world.

Climate & Capital Media is the first non-profit news organization solely focused on the business of climate change — the intersection of investment and sustainability.

FCLTGlobal’s mission is to focus capital on the long term to support a sustainable and prosperous economy. We are a non-profit organization whose members are leading companies and investors worldwide that develops actionable research and tools to drive long-term value creation for savers and communities.

Governance & Accountability Institute, Inc. (G&A) is an ESG and sustainability consulting firm, founded in 2006 and based in New York, helping clients become leaders in corporate sustainability and corporate responsibility.

We provide services and customized, proprietary resources to assist clients in developing strategies, measuring, managing, communicating, and disclosure & reporting on ESG issues. Issues & topics that are material to our clients’ business and the market players’ investment strategies.

Drawing on 17+ years’ experience in sustainable development impact assessment for carbon and climate finance, Gold Standard is uniquely positioned to support governments in attracting private finance to comply with the Paris Agreement and deliver on the Sustainable Development Agenda and to help impact investors de-risk funds, providing the assurance they need to credible measure and report on impact investments.

RMI is an independent, non-partisan, nonprofit organization of experts across disciplines working to accelerate the clean energy transition and improve lives. Since our founding in 1982 by Amory Lovins, RMI’s chairman emeritus, we have grown to over 500 staff working on four continents with a global reach and reputation.

RMI decarbonizes energy systems through rapid, market-based change in the world’s most critical geographies to align with a 1.5°C future and address the climate crisis. We work with businesses, policymakers, communities and other organizations to identify and scale energy system interventions that will cut greenhouse gas emissions at least 50% by 2030.

For 40 years, RMI has utilized our unique techno-economic expertise and whole-systems thinking to publish groundbreaking research and analysis. We bring together collaborations of rare reach, range and expertise—creating unconventional partnerships and mobilizing action to drive change on the massive scale needed to combat the climate crisis.

We Don’t Have Time is a movement and a tech startup that leverages the power of social media to hold leaders and companies accountable for climate change.

The founders and backers of We Don't Have Time are ordinary people with various backgrounds and experiences. Aware, but not experts in this field, our lowest common denominator is that all of us at some point in life “woke up” and started to worry and learn about the Earth’s health.