Capgemini is a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided everyday by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of nearly 360,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong 55-year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fueled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms. The Group reported 2022 global revenues of €22 billion.

Dream.Org closes prison doors and opens doors of opportunity. We bring people together across racial, social, and partisan lines to create a future with freedom, dignity, and opportunity for all. Our work falls into three programs:

JUSTICE:  We dream of a world beyond mass incarceration. We build communities with fewer prisons, safer neighborhoods, and transformed lives by cultivating leaders, changing policy, and promoting innovative solutions.
GREEN: We dream of a world beyond pollution. We work for cleaner air and water, affordable energy, and good jobs for all by centering frontline communities, changing policy, and connecting leaders.
TECH: We dream of a world beyond economic inequality. We create access to better careers and more innovation to change the face of the tech industry, offering training & scholarships, connecting with corporate partners, and cultivating supportive communities.

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.

IFM Investors was established more than 25 years ago with the aim to invest, protect and grow the long-term retirement savings of working people. Owned by a group of Australian pension funds, the organization has US$143 billion under management as of 31 December 2022. Because IFM Investors is owned by industry pension funds, the interests of more than 500 like-minded investors worldwide are prioritized by focusing on assets that combine excellent long-term risk/reward characteristics with broad economic and social benefits to the community. As a signatory to the Principles for Responsible Investment, IFM Investors actively engages on ESG issues with the companies in which IFM Investors invests with the aim of enhancing their net performance while minimizing investment risk. IFM Investors manages investments across infrastructure, debt, listed equities and private equity assets.

Manulife Financial Corp. is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. With global headquarters in Toronto, Canada, they provide financial advice and insurance, operating as Manulife across Canada, Asia, and Europe, and primarily as John Hancock in the United States. Through Manulife Investment Management, the global brand for its Global Wealth and Asset Management segment, they serve individuals, institutions, and retirement plan members worldwide.

Decisions made easier. Lives made better – this is Manulife’s Mission and reason for being. It is core to who they are and through their Impact Agenda, they're staying true to this Mission in three interconnected ways: empowering health and well-being; driving inclusive economic opportunities; and accelerating a sustainable future. 

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’s Climate Management & Accounting Platform (CMAP) provides businesses, financial institutions, and governmental agencies the software platform for managing their organization’s climate-related data, disclosures, and performance with the same level of trust, rigor and confidence as their financial reporting systems. The company’s software enables a central system of record with internal processes that support Investor Grade reporting, simplifying the calculation of a carbon footprint, identifying decarbonization strategies, performing climate trajectory modeling aligned to temperature rise scenarios, and benchmarking impact by region, sector, and peer groups.

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.

Founded with a vision to help the world's largest enterprises attain net zero, Rubicon Carbon works to meet the growing demand for high-quality carbon removal solutions. Backed by TPG Rise Climate and led by top finance and sustainability executives, Rubicon Carbon actively manages and monitors customers' decarbonization portfolios to meet their sustainability goals.

Stantec provides practical, creative, and comprehensive Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) advisory services - all informed by our global design, science, and engineering solutions. Building on this foundation, our detailed due diligence program helps our clients to minimize business risk, address portfolio vulnerabilities, and maintain a strong reputation. Together, we can enhance the value of your assets, meet stakeholder expectations, and support the communities in which you operate.

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.

Wellington Management is one of the world’s largest independent investment management firms, serving as a trusted adviser to over 2,400 clients in more than 60 countries. We manage more than US$1 trillion for pensions, E&Fs, insurers, family offices, fund sponsors, global wealth managers, and other clients. Our Sustainable Investing platform aims to provide innovative strategies built on the strength of rigorous, proprietary research that spans nearly all sectors of the global securities market. From producing ESG research and ratings, to engaging with company executives and board members on ESG issues, our teams are focused on maximizing the long-term value of securities. Click here to learn more.

Aspiration is a high-impact climate finance company working at scale to help enterprises, consumers, and investors achieve their climate goals. Founded in 2013, the company sources, monitors and invests in carbon removal projects across the globe to generate high-quality carbon credits. Every project in Aspiration’s portfolio is held to the most rigorous standards, ensuring each drives tangible, positive impacts for people and the planet. Aspiration is a Certified B Corp, a member of Project Drawdown, 1t.org, Climate Pledge, and many other critical industry groups dedicated to accelerating climate action. For more information, visit Aspiration.com or Aspiration.com/business.

Carbon Direct helps organizations go from climate goal to climate action. We combine technology with deep expertise in climate science, policy, and carbon markets to deliver carbon emission footprints, actionable reduction strategies, and high-quality carbon dioxide removal. With Carbon Direct, clients can set and equitably deliver on their climate commitments, streamline compliance, and manage risk through transparency and scientific credibility.
 

Our expertise is trusted by global climate leaders including Microsoft, American Express, and Alaska Airlines, as well as by the World Economic Forum, which selected Carbon Direct as an Implementation Partner for the First Movers Coalition. To learn more, visit carbon-direct.com.

Here to support your company's goals. Whether you’re seeking corporate finance, capital markets advisory, M&A advisory, or treasury and risk management, we’re ready to listen and act upon your evolving needs. We're creating an elevated banking experience by building lasting, trusted relationships with our clients.

Context Labs provides solutions for customers who demand trusted provenance in their data, tracked veracity through the data’s supply chain of use, a requirement for trusted insights. Dedicated to sourcing, organizing, and contextualizing the world’s ESG information, Context Labs enables data to become trusted, shared, and utilized as Asset Grade Data to provide insights and solutions through Asset Grade Analytics that informs markets. Our mission is to provide the world’s trusted data fabric platform, delivering Asset Grade Data, using the ImmutablyTM Enterprise Data Fabric platform, deploying machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, and cryptographic blockchain technologies, for context-driven insights.

“We make Reduction in Carbon Emissions a Profit Center”

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 achieve their ESG goals through best-in-class technology and expertise. Powered by a combination of an award-winning platform – Equilibrium, a global advisory service, essential ESG intelligence, and a strong peer community, leaders can take charge of their entire ESG strategy. From getting started with strategic insights, benchmarking, audit-ready reporting, and ultimately proving ROI, FiscalNote ESG Solutions is tailored to your organization's unique ESG needs.

Greenly is a climate tech company that offers unique software (Saas) which enables SMBs to measure, reduce and offset their carbon footprint based on international carbon accounting standards such as the GHG Protocol.

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 helps clients improve their climate risk management and disclosures. By combining our climate expertise and technology, we enable clients to assess the maturity of their current management and disclosure practices, identify gaps between disclosure frameworks, regulations and peers, and understand the actions that can be taken to improve.

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. 

Scope Zero created the Carbon Savings Account™ (CSA). Think health savings account, but for eligible home technology and personal transportation upgrades that reduce their utility bills and fuel consumption. The CSA lowers the upfront costs of these upgrades in two ways: employer matches and referral discounts from partner vendors within the CSA marketplace ecosystem. The CSA is an employee-centric corporate sustainability strategy, as it reduces scope 3 work-from-home and commute emissions.

Sustainability Economics focuses on the lifecycle management of end-to-end net-zero transitions across multiple sectors, with an automation-first approach. Our team is a combination of seasoned corporate executives and global leaders with diverse expertise who can connect the dots and simplify the customer's net-zero transition journey. We embrace global standards by collaborating with multiple industry forums and ecosystem partners.

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.

Zimpatica is a top-tier provider of Appian implementation services, specializing in helping businesses streamline their operations and increase productivity. Our team of experienced software salespeople and consultants work closely with clients to understand their unique needs and develop custom solutions using the Appian platform. We create intuitive, user-friendly interfaces that automate manual processes, track performance metrics, and optimize workflows. Our deep understanding of technology enables us to transform businesses and help them achieve their goals. 

Whether you're looking to improve your customer experience, boost employee productivity, or reduce operational costs, Zimpatica has the expertise and tools to help you succeed. We're excited to connect with leaders in sustainability at GreenFin and explore how our technology can drive positive change for the environment and society.

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.

Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose® (CECP) is a trusted advisor to companies on their corporate purpose journeys to build long-term sustainable value and tell their impact stories. Working with CEOs and leaders in corporate responsibility, sustainability, foundations, investor relations, finance, legal, and communications, CECP shares actionable insights with its CEO-led coalition to address stakeholder needs.

Currently celebrating our 50^th year, the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility pioneered the use of shareholder advocacy to press companies on environmental, social, and governance issues. Our coalition of over 300 global institutional investors currently represents more than $4 trillion in managed assets. Leveraging their equity ownership in some of the world’s largest and most powerful companies, ICCR members regularly engage management to identify and mitigate social and environmental risks resulting from corporate operations and policies.

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.