THE PREMIER SUSTAINABLE FINANCE AND INVESTING EVENT

Despite ESG frameworks and rankings’ imperfections, they are impacting billions of investments. And, hundreds of trillions more are needed to realize a just transition to a decarbonized global economy.
GreenFin 23 will convene an influential audience of finance, investment and sustainability professionals to share insights, address key challenges and showcase leading sustainable financial products and services.
Join the growing GreenFin community of more than 900 finance, investment and sustainability leaders to support the just transition to a decarbonized economy.
By attending, you'll gain access to inspiring keynotes, engaging breakout sessions and valuable networking that will empower you with the knowledge and connections you need to enact change.
Featured Speakers

Emily Pierce

Prior to joining Persefoni, she was Assistant Director in the Office of International Affairs at the SEC where she was responsible, among other things, for the SEC's engagement with international regulators, standard setters, and regulatory bodies on climate-related disclosure issues. Prior to joining the SEC, she was with the law firm Debevoise and Plimpton.
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New Opportunities in a New Era of Disclosure

Dr. Bob Eccles

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A New Conception of ESG That Builds Common Ground

Leo Strine

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A New Conception of ESG That Builds Common Ground

Allison Binns

Allison Binns joined Angelo Gordon in 2021 as the Head of ESG & Sustainable Investing for the firm. She focuses on ESG integration and sustainable investing approaches across investment verticals, and is responsible for sustainability reporting. Prior to joining the firm, Allison was an Executive Director for Global Sustainability Research at Morgan Stanley, where she headed ESG research across fixed income asset classes and led corporate governance research for equities. Previously, Allison worked for Chevron where she held a number of senior advisory roles in ESG and geopolitical risk. Prior to Chevron, Allison worked for the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball and the Boston Red Sox, where she focused on salary arbitration and international baseball concerns. She serves on the boards of the Poetry Society of America, the FDR Four Freedoms Park Conservancy, and the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship. Allison received her A.B. in Sociology and Latin American Studies from Princeton University, and holds an A.M. and PhD. from Harvard University.
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Driving Radical Change in Finance: A Sociologist’s Perspective

Margot Brandenburg

Margot Brandenburg is a senior program officer on the foundation’s Mission Investments team, focused on building and strengthening the infrastructure of the impact investment market—with an eye to shaping the broader capital markets. She has spent two decades working at the intersection of philanthropy, capital markets, and social and environmental justice. Prior to joining Ford, Margot served as founder and CEO of MyStrongHome, a benefit corporation delivering resilience finance services to homeowners across the Southeast and Gulf Coast of the US. Before that, she helped design and lead the impact investing initiative at the Rockefeller Foundation. She co-authored the book The Power of Impact Investing with former RF president Judith Rodin. While at Rockefeller, she also focused on job creation and issues of economic security for low-wage workers. Margot began her career in international microfinance and has worked with several community development finance institutions in the US. She serves on the boards of the Workers Lab, Brooklyn Cooperative Credit Union, and the Woodcock Foundation, and as an adviser to the National Domestic Workers Alliance as well as the National Energy Improvement Fund. She received a master’s in public affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and holds an undergraduate degree from Stanford University.
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The Implications of ESG Pushback For Impact Investing

Josh Zinner

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Sustainability Stewardship Success Stories

Greg Hershman

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The Elephant in the Room: Navigating ESG’s Politicized Waters

Bert Hunter
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Green Banks: Catalyzing Investments in Climate Solutions

Joyce Cacho
Joyce Cacho is a combination leading-edge Operating Executive, and ‘nose-in-fingers-out’ Board member. Building on a C-suite career focused on P&L restructuring in banking and manufacturing, Joyce brings enterprise risk management (ERM), M&A, and ESG/Sustainability skills to the boardroom to grow companies. As the board chair, Sistema.Bio, Joyce is engaged in the energy-bio, technology innovation, and carbon offset industries. In addition to board director experience with Sunrise Banks, N.A., and World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA), Joyce served on the board of Land O’Lakes, Inc. — a Fortune 250 company.Joyce contributes to systems change as a Governance expert and Leadership Committee member of 2022 #GetOnBoard week, How Women Lead and Advisor, Black Corporate Board Readiness (BCBR), Silicon Valley Executive Center, Santa Clara University. As a board trustee, College of the Atlantic (COA), Joyce works to support innovation in education. Serving as an Advisor, Competent Board and Chief Judge, US Businesses in Africa Awards keep Joyce focused on impact via Corporate Governance in mature and emerging markets.Joyce holds a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) designation and is a member of the Certified Financial Analyst (CFA) Society – New York (professional) which supports her QFE and Audit Committee board expertise. She is a National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Board Leadership Fellow and was named to the 2021 list of Most Influential Black Executives by Savoy Magazine.
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Sustainability in the Boardroom: Developing Key Competencies

Katherine Collins

Katherine Collins is Head of Sustainable Investing at Putnam Investments and portfolio manager for Putnam's Sustainable Equity strategies, with approximately $6.5 billion in assets under management. SHORT VERSION: * favored for most settings *Katherine Collins is Head of Sustainable Investing at Putnam Investments and portfolio manager for Putnam's Sustainable Equity strategies, with approximately $6.5 billion in assets under management. In addition to her investment roles, Ms. Collins is an author and beekeeper, and holds degrees from Harvard Divinity School and Wellesley College. She serves on several nonprofit boards, including the Santa Fe Institute, Omega Institute, Harvard Divinity School Dean's Council, and Wellesley Centers for Women. In 2021, she was named to the inaugural Forbes “50 Over 50” list of leaders who are shaping the future of finance.MEDIUM VERSION:Katherine Collins is Head of Sustainable Investing at Putnam Investments and portfolio manager for Putnam's Sustainable Equity strategies, with approximately $6.5 billion in assets under management. Ms. Collins has over thirty years’ experience as an active fundamental investor, and was named to the inaugural Forbes “50 Over 50” list of leaders who are shaping the future of finance in 2021. She is a beekeeper, the author of Month of Sundays and The Nature of Investing, and founder of Honeybee Capital, an independent investment research firm focused on sustainable investment themes. Earlier in her career, she served as Head of Equity Research, Portfolio Manager, and Equity Research Analyst at Fidelity Investments. Katherine serves on several nonprofit boards, including the Santa Fe Institute, Omega Institute, Harvard Divinity School Dean's Council, and Wellesley Centers for Women. She earned a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School and a B.A. from Wellesley College, and is a CFA charter holder.
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Going Beyond Megawatt Hour Matching

Tony Goldner

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Unpacking Decision-useful Biodiversity Data for Investors

Helle Bank Jorgensen

Helle Bank Jorgensen is an internationally recognized expert on sustainable business practices, with a 30-year record of turning environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks into innovative and profitable business opportunities. She works with many global Fortune 500 board members and executives, as well as smaller companies and investors.Helle is the founder and chief executive of Competent Boards, which offers online climate and ESG programs that draw on the experience of over 180 renowned board members, executives, and investors. Hundreds of directors and senior executives have enrolled in these programs to mitigate the risks and seize the opportunities presented by ESG and climate change.Helle serves at:-Nasdaq Center for Board Excellence’s Sustainability & ESG Insights Council;-World Economic Forum (WEF) Expert Network for Corporate Governance, Leadership, and Emerging Multinationals;-His Royal Highness Prince of Wales A4S (Accounting for Sustainability) Global Expert Panel;-The Non-financial Digitisation Working Group of the Impact Management Project (IMP);-The Reuters Panel of Expert Judges for the Responsible Business Awards;-Canadian Climate Governance Experts –- a Commonwealth Climate & Law Initiative;-Chair of the Advisory Committee of the ESG Exchange.In 2020 she was awarded the Global Impact Award and named one of "5 people in ESG to look out for." She was also selected as one of LinkedIn's Top Voices in the Green Economy in the US and Canada for 2022. Ms. Bank Jorgensen is the author of the newly published book Stewards of The Future: A Guide for Competent Boards, an Amazon bestseller.
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Sustainability in the Future Boardroom
Sustainability in the Boardroom: Developing Key Competencies

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S&P Global Sustainable1 matches customers with the sustainability products, insights and solutions from across S&P Global’s divisions to help meet their unique needs. Our comprehensive coverage across global markets combined with in-depth sustainability intelligence provides financial institutions, corporations and governments with expansive insight on business risk, opportunity, and impact as we work towards a sustainable future.


Deloitte provides industry-leading audit and assurance, tax and legal, consulting, financial advisory, and risk advisory services to nearly 90% of the Fortune Global 500® and thousands of private companies. Our professionals deliver measurable and lasting results that help reinforce public trust in capital markets, enable clients to transform and thrive, and lead the way toward a stronger economy, a more equitable society, and a sustainable world. Building on its 175-plus year history, Deloitte spans more than 150 countries and territories. Learn how Deloitte’s 415,000 people worldwide make an impact that matters at www.deloitte.com and learn more about our sustainability, climate, and equity offerings by visiting www.deloitte.com/us/sustainable-future.
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Sponsored: Addressing the ESG Data Challenge for Financial Institutions




Wells Fargo & Company is a leading financial services company that has approximately $1.9 trillion in assets, proudly serves one in three U.S. households and more than 10% of small businesses in the U.S., and is a leading middle market banking provider in the U.S. We provide a diversified set of banking, investment and mortgage products and services, as well as consumer and commercial finance, through our four reportable operating segments: Consumer Banking and Lending, Commercial Banking, Corporate and Investment Banking, and Wealth & Investment Management. Wells Fargo ranked No. 37 on Fortune’s 2021 rankings of America’s largest corporations. In the communities we serve, the company focuses its social impact on building a sustainable, inclusive future for all by supporting housing affordability, small business growth, financial health, and a low-carbon economy. News, insights, and perspectives from Wells Fargo are also available at Wells Fargo Stories.


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.

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Citi’s mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress. Through a global network of people, data and relationships, Citi does business in nearly 160 countries and jurisdictions, providing corporations, governments, investors, institutions and individuals with a broad range of financial products and services. Citi has committed to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and to finance and facilitate $1 trillion in sustainable finance by 2030.


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/.




Climate change and sustainability continue to rise on the agendas of governments and organizations around the world with rapidly evolving drivers and expectations. Businesses face regulatory requirements and the need to meet stakeholder expectations as well as respond to the opportunities presented for revenue generation and cost reduction. This means a fundamental and complex transformation for many organizations and the embedding of climate change and sustainability into core business activities to achieve short-term objectives and create long-term shareholder value. EY’s global, multidisciplinary teams combine core experience in assurance, tax, transactions and advisory with climate change and sustainability skills and deep industry knowledge.
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Sponsored: Delivering and Measuring Social Impact in a Climate-Focused World

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.


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Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) is a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services. With offices in more than 41 countries, the Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals. For more information about Morgan Stanley, please visit www.morganstanley.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.


PwC is a community of solvers coming together in unexpected ways to build trust in society and solve important problems. Our clients are at the core of everything we do and we are committed to their success. To help our clients build trust and deliver sustained outcomes, PwC provides professional services across two segments: Trust Solutions and Consulting Solutions. Within these segments, we bring a range of capabilities to help organizations solve faster, solve more and realize more value. These capabilities include ESG: we work together with you to make the right choices to position your company for a sustainable tomorrow.
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Sponsored: Stakeholder Centricity Is the New Customer Centricity
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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.


Sphera is the leading provider of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance and risk management software, data and consulting services with a focus on Environment, Health, Safety & Sustainability (EHS&S), Operational Risk Management and Product Stewardship.

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.


Watershed is the enterprise climate platform. Leading companies like Walmart, Airbnb, Spotify, Klarna, and Twitter use our software to run end-to-end climate programs with quantifiable results. Watershed delivers granular, audit-grade carbon measurement; one-click disclosure and reporting; and real emissions reductions—all in a single, intuitive, enterprise-grade software platform. Watershed customers have access to our exclusive marketplace of scientifically vetted, high-additionality carbon removal projects and high-quality offsets; in-house climate and policy expertise; and ongoing support throughout their climate journey. Watershed’s advisors and investors include Mark Carney, Christiana Figueres, Al Gore, Sequoia, and Kleiner Perkins. Watershed is based in San Francisco, Calif., and London, U.K.


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.


At ERM, sustainability is our business.
As the largest global pure play sustainability consultancy, we partner with the world’s leading organizations, creating innovative solutions to sustainability challenges and unlocking commercial opportunities that meet the needs of today while preserving opportunity for future generations.
Our diverse team of world-class experts supports clients across the breadth of their organizations to operationalize sustainability, underpinned by our deep technical expertise in addressing their environmental, health, safety, risk and social issues. We call this capability our “boots to boardroom” approach for its comprehensive service model that allows ERM to develop strategic and technical solutions that advance objectives on the ground or at the executive level.


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.

Schneider’s purpose is to empower all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability for all. We call this Life Is On. Our mission is to be your digital partner for Sustainability and Efficiency. We drive digital transformation by integrating world-leading process and energy technologies, end-point to cloud connecting products, controls, software and services, across the entire lifecycle, enabling integrated company management, for homes, buildings, data centers, infrastructure, and industries. We are the most local of global companies. We are advocates of open standards and partnership ecosystems that are passionate about our shared Meaningful Purpose, Inclusive and Empowered values. Learn more at www.se.com/us.


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.


Ceres is a nonprofit organization working with the most influential capital market leaders to solve the world’s greatest sustainability challenges. Through our powerful networks and global collaborations of investors, companies, and nonprofits, we drive action and inspire equitable market-based and policy solutions throughout the economy to build a just and sustainable future.


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.


GRI is an international independent organization that helps businesses, governments and other organizations understand and communicate the impact of business on critical sustainability issues such as climate change, human rights, corruption and many others.


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.

The Sustainability Consortium

The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) is a global organization transforming the consumer goods industry to deliver more sustainable consumer products. We are dedicated to improving the sustainability of consumer products. Our Members and partners include manufacturers, retailers, suppliers, service providers, NGOs, civil society organizations, governmental agencies and academics. Each member brings valuable perspectives and expertise. TSC convenes our diverse stakeholders to work collaboratively to build science-based decision tools and solutions that address sustainability issues that are materially important throughout a product’s supply chain and lifecycle. TSC also offers a portfolio of services to help drive effective implementation.


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.