ESG News

Climate Risk and Returns: Shaping a Sustainable, Profitable Future
2023-04-20 07:30 - 2023-04-21 12:30 (America/New_York) | ​InterContinental New York Barclay, ​111 East 48th Street, New York, NY, 10017, United States
As the debate around the risk–return of ESG investing continues, CFA Institute is convening asset owners, investment managers and corporate leaders to address the key questions and themes, head on.

Are investors running the risk of a fiduciary failure?
How can AI and ML help mitigate risk through enhanced ESG data scrutiny?
As governments dedicate trillions to energy security and climate change programs, where will the value be created?
When it comes to climate, where do we draw the line between free enterprise and accountability?
Apathy is not an option. Boards must embrace the E, S, and G.

Join us, on 20-21 April in New York City, to build your network and hear directly from leading asset owners and influencers across the investment and corporate sectors.

How Can The Built Environment Drive Social and Environmental Value?
2023-04-20 05:00 - 06:00 | Virtual Event
This webinar, organised by the Financial Times in partnership with JLL, will delve into the rising importance of social value in the development of a net-zero, healthy, and equitable built environment. It will look at the key challenges and tensions between short and long term priorities and how the ecosystem of stakeholders can align and engage in the creation of spaces that are safe, inclusive, resilient and sustainable. Our experts will share practical experiences and discuss ways to achieve decarbonisation goals alongside social and financial targets, explore opportunities for shared value and stakeholder collaboration, and examine how to improve the human value proposition throughout the entire real estate cycle.
Social value is a core part of ESG, yet there is a gap between ambition and action. Companies typically take a fragmented approach and focus more on the ‘E’ – rather than addressing environmental and social goals in tandem. Those who take a holistic approach across the real estate cycle, can transform the built environment into a driver of positive change, for both people and planet, while accelerating progress and unlocking competitive advantage.

Moody's Analytics Summit 2023 Johannesburg
2023-04-20 02:30 - 12:30 | Four Seasons Hotel, The Westcliff, 67 Jan Smuts Avenue, Johannesburg, South Africa
Moody’s Analytics Summit 2023 brings together more than 100 members of the banking community to network and learn about best practices, innovations, and forward-looking thought leadership.

US Climate Action Summit 2023
2023-04-19 11:00 - 17:30
What is the US Climate Action Summit?

Back for its third year, the US Climate Action Summit unites key leaders in business, politics and advocacy to drive US climate momentum during Earth Week.
We’re hosting an intimate yet innovative program that favours participation, progress and accountability.
Our goal for the US Climate Action Summit is to create a participant-led platform that drives measurable outcomes on climate policy and business action, with attendees at the heart of the agenda.

How is this event different?

We know events alone will not change the world. But the people and conversations at them can. We need a little less conversation and a lot more action at events like this.
We’ve seen a huge demand from our business, policy and NGO networks for an open and honest platform that pushes progress and implementation.
So we’ve designed an agenda that puts participation at the center of the program by creating an open space for off the record conversations, carefully curated small-group conversations, and a series of closed-door implementation sessions that deliver real outcomes.

Bloomberg for Credit: Navigate Sustainable Fixed Income Effectively
2023-04-19 10:00 - 10:30 | Virtual Event
Join this webinar to gain a better understanding of ESG topics in relation to Credit. Learn how to navigate sustainable fixed income effectively by leveraging Bloomberg’s resources, whether it is related to data, transparency, ratings, research, news, indices or regulation.
Discover best practices for locating issuer data, evaluating carbon impact and net zero alignment, and identifying regulatory profiles in respect to SFDR, TCFD etc.
Discussion topics:
· Integrate ESG data and scores into monitoring
· Check alignment with regulatory requirements
· Use Bloomberg Intelligence to keep track of ESG trends
· Find & keep track of ESG bonds
· Analyze and compare ESG bonds against comps

SPS ESG & Sustainable Asset Strategies for Pension Funds
2023-04-19 09:00 - 16:30 | The View at the Royal College of Surgeons, 38-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PE, United Kingdom
Conference objectives

• Explore a range of new ESG/impact and sustainable investment strategies
• Understand how to integrate them into your investment management processes
• Further your knowledge of TCFD and climate reporting
• Learn from other pension fund and investor colleagues
• Network with pension funds and providers in an educational informal setting
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Complimentary attendance for pension funds and other qualifying institutional investors

Global Ethics Summit 2023
2023-04-17 08:00 - 2023-04-19 17:00 | Virtual Event
Welcome to the Global Ethics Summit 2023
Ethisphere’s Global Ethics Summit has always been a place for companies and delegates to learn, develop and share ideas that elevate our field and lead to greater business integrity. It’s been a place to become better.
This year, our 14th Annual Summit is going hybrid – showcasing more companies, featuring more points of view and bring together a larger community in person and virtually.
Join us as we advance together we gather senior leaders in person with their teams joining virtually from around the globe to shape and drive the Ethics Economy.

Nordic Conference on Climate Change Adaptation 2023
2023-04-17 04:00 - 2023-04-18 13:00 | Hotel Reykjavík Grand, Sigtún 28, 105 Reykjavík, Iceland
The 6th Nordic Conference on Climate Change Adaptation, NOCCA23’ will be held in Iceland, Reykjavík Grand Hotel on the 17th-19th of April 2023, the same year that Iceland will hold the Precedency at the Nordic Council of Ministers.
The focus of NOCCA 2023 is on adaptation in cities and municipalities in the Nordic countries. What actions have been implemented and how, what has worked and what are the key learnings in the adaptation process. The event is a valuable venue for Nordic countries to exchange key learnings and to open the dialog on adaptation.
The conference welcomes all who work on climate change adaptation, within the fields of science, in local communities, governments and municipal administration, in ministries and national authorities, politics, businesses, industry and NGOs.

Conference output and key messages
NOCCA collects knowledge from municipal experts and civil servants to enhance the value of current work carried out in the Nordic region and contributes to the mainstreaming of climate change adaptation into decision-making and planning on the municipal level. It will provide a certain overview of the knowledge of existing methodological approaches to climate change adaptation on the municipal level in the Nordic region.
The output from the workshops will be synthesized in a policy paper as a leading document for further Nordic cooperation on adaptation, especially for upcoming ECCA23 and/or COP28.

The SDG Business Breakdown: Sales & Marketing
2023-04-06 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual Event
To efficiently contribute to the creation of a more prosperous planet, sustainability needs to be embedded in a company’s DNA. This can be a challenging task, especially for departments that do not directly work on sustainability issues.
The UN Global Compact Network USA will host The Business Breakdown of the SDGs webinar series to provide companies with the opportunity to integrate the SDGs into each core function of their business. This series aims to help non-sustainability professionals integrate the Sustainable Development Goals into their day-to-day work. By ‘breaking down’ a business by function in each webinar, the series is designed to provide department-specific insight, knowledge, and inspiration needed to make a positive impact on the company’s SDG strategy.
This session will provide Sales & Marketing professionals with the insight, tools, and actions to integrate the SDGs into their work. The webinar will feature Sales & Marketing expert, Randi Kronthal-Sacco of NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business.
Randi Kronthal-Sacco (Stern ‘83) is a Senior Scholar at the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business. Ms. Kronthal-Sacco leads CSB’s research in the areas of marketing and brands including the Sustainable Market Share Index and is responsible for corporate outreach.

BELA Roundtable: Hosted by Western Union
2023-04-06 11:00 - 14:00 | Virtual Event
Join your Denver peers in-person for an insightful conversation on how leading organizations are implementing specific components of their ethics and compliance program in effort to better assess the program, provide better evaluations and engage employees.
Interactive In-Person Discussion
Topic 1: David Johnson, CCO at CSGI, will be speaking on investigations framework – from triage to assignment to reporting and root cause analysis.
Topic 2: Michael Koenig, Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer at JBS, will lead a roundtable conversation on the following topics:
-Recent Regulatory Developments: Monaco Memo, Compliance Officer Certifications and updates to the DOJ’s Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Program. Where we should focus and prioritize the advancement of our own E/C strategy in light of these recent developments.
-Engaging the C-Suite: Building support for E/C program efforts with the C-Suite. Strategies to leverage the C-Suite voice, advance budget initiatives and drive consistent support from the top.

Accelerating Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals in Trinidad and Tobago: Sustainable and Green Growth Opportunities
2023-04-04 09:30 - 17:00 | Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Spain
UNDESA/DSDG in cooperation with UNOSD, ECLAC, and the RCO/UNCT are organizing a Training Workshop entitled “Accelerating Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals in Trinidad and Tobago: Sustainable and Green Growth Opportunities” in Port of Spain from 4 to 6 April 2023.
The 3-Day Training Workshop represents Phase 4 of the UNDESA, UNOSD and ECLAC cooperation with Trinidad and Tobago that aims to strengthen the national stakeholders integrated planning and decision-making that incorporate sustainable and green growth, strengthen resilience and accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals.
The workshop will bring together senior policy makers from the planning ministry, key line ministries, civil society organizations, academia, and private sector representatives.

10th Annual Investors' Conference on European CLOs & Leveraged Loans
2023-04-04 05:30 - 13:00 | Hilton Bankside London, 2-8 Great Suffolk St, London, SE1 0UG, United Kingdom
IMN is pleased to announce the 10th Anniversary Edition and Annual Investors’ Conference on European CLOs and Leveraged Loans on April 4th, 2023.
With the Global CLO market hitting the $1tn milestone and the LIBOR transition causing a swell of last-minute issuance, there has never been a better time for this single day event, serving as the ideal opportunity for the European CLO and leveraged loan community to connect with peers, and share key updates and developments on topics including; investing across the capital stack, middle market lending, ESG and sustainability, manager tiering, regulatory landscape, and more. This flagship industry, and investor led, conference is a must attend for this transactionally focused market.
We look forward to welcoming you to another must-attend event this April.

Progress and Challenges to Achieving a Common Taxonomy for Climate Investments
2023-04-03 05:00 - 17:00 | Virtual Event
Policymakers from China and the EU discuss current climate investment taxonomies and what is needed to achieve a common worldwide taxonomy.
As countries and governments have pursued policies and regulations to fulfill their commitments to achieve a climate-neutral world by mid-century, they have formulated classification systems or “taxonomies” to define, guide and measure environmentally sustainable economic activities. Taxonomies have been developed in the EU, China and around the world to translate green objectives into criteria for investment, establish how assets and projects are aligned with green objectives and define green activities that can be financed by the financial system.
In this free webinar, two distinguished policymakers will discuss the most well-developed taxonomies currently in place (EU and China); explore the similarities, differences, and implementation progress to date; and debate what is still needed to achieve a common taxonomy and harmonization worldwide. What has been the experience to date and where are the gaps, as countries move from principles to more detailed technical criteria on the path to a green transition?

Transforming your business for a Blue Economy
2023-04-02 08:00 - 17:00 | Singapore
This event is open to everyone joining ADEX — industry and consumers.
Asia Dive Expo (ADEX) 2023
Sustainable Diving Dialogue: Transforming your business for a Blue Economy
Sunday, 2 April | Time: 12:00-13:00 hrs (UTC/GMT+8)
Underwater360 Main Stage (Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Singapore)
Overview
The UN Environment Programme (COBSEA Secretariat) is hosting an event in partnership with The Reef-World Foundation (Green Fins international coordinator), and UW360. This dialogue aims to explore how the dive industry can become more sustainable, involving various stakeholders such as dive centers, liveaboards, booking agents, manufacturers, media, and training agencies.
The discussion will focus on crucial topics like preventing plastic pollution, conserving coral reefs, and promoting sustainable business models. Industry leaders, movers, and shakers in sustainability will share their insights and examples of sustainable business models during an interactive discussion. Attendees are encouraged to engage with the panelists, share their ideas, best practices, and questions, and learn more about pursuing a sustainable business model for the diving industry.
Target audience
This event is designed for representatives from all segments of the diving industry including dive professionals, operators, liveaboards, resorts, travel providers, diver training organizations, manufacturers, photographers, the media, and others. Our goal is to provide actionable insights that will help you align your business with the market of the future, making it more profitable and resilient by adopting sustainable business models.
Key issues to be discussed
• Dispelling the myth that sustainability has to be expensive: Reef-World’s recent Sustainability Survey has identified cost as one of the biggest barriers to the uptake of sustainable practices in the industry, especially in the post-pandemic restart phase. This event aims to debunk the myth that sustainability is expensive by sharing evidence that sustainable practices have reduced operational costs by up to 70% in some areas. We will feature stories and solutions from industry leaders who are adopting cost-sensitive environmental solutions in their businesses.
• Unlocking the value of sustainability: Companies in the diving industry are interested in finding ways to increase the visibility of and market sustainability. Research shows that post-pandemic dive tourists are interested in more sustainable holiday options and are willing to pay more for sustainability. However, they need more transparency around environmentally-friendly options to avoid greenwashing. The event will focus on how authenticity in showcasing environmental ethos and practices can help promote sustainability and avoid greenwashing. The event will showcase stories of businesses that have benefited from sustainability by unlocking higher-value products that also deliver on local conservation needs, connecting with local governments and partners on conservation efforts, and unexpectedly enjoying financial benefits as a result.
Speakers
Moderator: Natalie Harms, Secretariat of the Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asia (COBSEA), UN Environment Programme
Panelists:

Elaine Wallace – Owner, Bunaken Oasis Resort and Spa (Green Fins DIgital Member)
Paul Tanner – Territory Director, PADI (Training agency)
John Thet – CEO, UW360 (Media)
David McClinton – Owner and Director, Ceningan Divers and Resort (Green Fins Top 10 Certified Member)
Bo Mancao – Underwater Imager
Adam Broadbent – Founder & CEO, ZuBLu (booking platform)

Key takeaways of the event
The event offers a unique opportunity to connect with leaders in sustainability and gain valuable insights into sustainable practices in the diving industry. Key takeaways include:

Gain valuable connections with leaders in conservation and sustainability, allowing you to build relationships and collaborate with others in the industry.
Gain insight into the latest post-pandemic business trends and learn how to incorporate sustainability into your business practices immediately, including practical tips for reducing costs and increasing profitability.
Discover how to effectively communicate your sustainability efforts to consumers, building trust and loyalty with your customer base.
Learn how adopting sustainable practices can attract more customers who are willing to pay more, return for more, and promote your services among their online networks.

Overall, the event offers a unique opportunity to gain practical knowledge and actionable insights into sustainable business practices, helping you to align your business for the future and increase your profitability and resilience.

Information Session for the 2023 Climate Ambition Accelerator
2023-03-30 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtual Event
Are you interested in attending this year’s Climate Ambition Accelerator? We invite you to register for this live Q&A session to learn how your company can accelerate progress toward setting science-based targets by joining this programme.
Perhaps your company has not yet set emissions targets, or you’ve created targets without using the science-based targets methodology. Maybe you’re overwhelmed by the technical requirements involved. No matter where you are in your sustainability journey, the Climate Ambition Accelerator will help you get started and make progress towards setting ambitious emission targets.
This virtual, interactive session will help you better understand the inner workings of the Accelerator, what you can expect to learn and achieve, and provide answers to any other questions you might have.

International Day of Zero Waste 2023
2023-03-30 00:00 - 23:59 | Observance
International Day of Zero Waste
The International Day of Zero Waste aims to promote sustainable consumption and production patterns, support the societal shift towards circularity and raise awareness about how zero-waste initiatives contribute to the advancement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The waste sector contributes significantly to the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity and nature loss, and pollution. Humanity generates an estimated 2.24 billion tons of municipal solid waste annually, of which only 55 per cent is managed in controlled facilities. Every year, around 931 million tons of food is lost or wasted and up to 14 million tons of plastic waste enters aquatic ecosystems.
Zero-waste initiatives can foster sound waste management and minimize and prevent waste, helping to address the triple planetary crisis, protect the environment, enhance food security and improve human health and well-being.
Adopting zero waste
A zero-waste approach entails responsible production, consumption and disposal of products in a closed, circular system. This means that resources are reused or recovered as much as possible and that we minimize the pollution to air, land or water.
Achieving zero waste requires action at all levels.
Products should be designed to be durable and require fewer and low-impact materials. By opting for less resource-intensive production and transport methods, manufacturers can further limit pollution and waste. Advertising and closely managing demand can further enable zero waste throughout products’ life cycles.
Consumers can also play a pivotal role in enabling zero waste by changing habits and reusing and repairing products as much as possible before properly disposing of them.
With governments, communities, industries and other stakeholders increasingly recognizing the potential of zero-waste initiatives, bolstering waste management and improving recovery systems through finance and policymaking. The Global Strategy for Sustainable Consumption and Production can guide this transition. Established by the United Nations General Assembly, Member States and stakeholders, the strategy calls for the adoption of sustainable consumption and production objectives across all sectors by 2030.

Economist Impact 8th Annual Sustainability Week
2023-03-29 08:00 - 2023-03-31 17:00 | Business Design Centre, 52 Upper St, London, N1 0QH, United Kingdom
8th annual Sustainability Week focuses on helping businesses become sustainable faster.

We are the independent guide to sustainability, helping our audience cut through the noise and supporting them as they achieve sustainability goals and reach outcomes with actual business value. We help businesses, policymakers, financiers, investors, NGOs and others achieve sustainability goals, faster.
In 2023 we will be back with an even bigger and better event to further serve these aims, with a large scale physical event bringing 1,000 attendees, 300 speakers and 50 exhibitors coming together from March 29th to 31st at the Business Design Centre, London, and online.
We look forward to seeing you in 2023!

The Business Case for Water Resilience
2023-03-27 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual Event
This webinar focuses on key outcomes from the UN 2023 Water Conference and the ethical and business case for adopting water resilience and sustainability strategies. Participants will gain insight from leading businesses and acquire practical tools and resources to implement water strategies. This webinar will also provide participants with partnership opportunities and information on how to join the CEO Water Mandate and Water Resilience Coalition (WRC).

Consultation in Latin America and the Caribbean: nature-positive trade for sustainable agricultural supply chains
2023-03-27 08:00 - 2023-03-28 14:00 | Virtual Event
Global food systems and agriculture play a key role to end extreme poverty, deliver food security, and foster an inclusive and sustainable development. Agriculture is the main support for the livelihoods of more than 500 million smallholders worldwide – many of whom are women – it also feeds 8 billion people and drives economic activity, accounting for 4% of the global gross domestic product (GDP).
The increasing demand for food to fuel a population projected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050 continues to incentivize agricultural expansion, converting land and forests areas and being the main driver of deforestation and the associated loss of biodiversity. While trade can help achieve sustainable and resilient food systems, it is also known to contribute to and exacerbate negative impacts on nature and people. However, in an economy with over 50% of the global GDP dependent upon nature, trade can and should be part of the solution to protect and restore nature.
To tackle this global challenge, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is hosting 3 Regional Stakeholders Consultations in 2023, one in each region: Asia, Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The Consultations will be held as part of UNEP’s partnernship in the Trade, Development and the Environment Hub (TRADE Hub) project.
The Consultations will convene a diversity of stakeholders to discuss priorities, challenges and opportunities in the region, and together identify and provide recommendations for impact-driven and actionable solutions to move towards a sustainable, fair and inclusive nature-positive trading system that supports countries to: i) achieve sustainable supply chains of agricultural commodities, ii) facilitate market access to all stakeholders in compliance with regulations that commit to decouple commodities from deforestation, e.g. EUDR, and iii) advance national plans for sustainable socio-economic development.
In a joint collaboration between UNEP and the International Trade Center (ITC), the first Regional Consultation in Latin America and the Caribbean will take place on:

Date and time: 27 and 28 March 2023, 10:00 – 16:00 BRT
Hybrid format: in-person in Sao Paulo, Brazil*; and online
Interpretation: in Portuguese, Spanish and English
Venue: to be announced soon

The Latin America and Caribbean Stakeholders Consultation will aim to:

Deliver actions-oriented recommendations to enable solutions and strengthen multi-stakeholder cooperation for an inclusive and fair nature-positive trading system that promotes sustainable supply chains of agricultural commodities, focused on: soybean, beef and cocoa.
Identify and increase understanding of emerging opportunities for the region at the biodiversity and trade policy interface, including regional trade agreements and the recently adopted Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

The Consultation will gather:

Government entities leading agendas at the trade and environment nexus, focused on agriculture, land management and forestry, biodiversity, finance, economy, industry, and related areas.
Policymakers active in the environment and trade fora.
Private sector: smallholders, trading cooperatives, MSMEs, multinational companies, industry associations and relevant stakeholders involved in supply chains of agricultural commodities.
Non-governmental organizations and civil society.
Academic and research institutions.
Financial institutions.

Additional information – Trade, Development and the Environment Hub (TRADE Hub) Project
The Regional Stakeholders Consultations are part of UNEP Environment and Trade’s partnership in the Trade, Development and the Environment Hub (TRADE Hub), a global pioneering and multi-disciplinary project funded by the UK Research and Innovation, Global Challenges Research Fund.
The TRADE Hub has been established to respond to the challenges of unsustainable trade of agricultural commodities, wild species, and wild meat; aiming to address the longstanding tension between trade-induced economic growth, environmental and social impacts.
The Hub provides and develops underpinning research and knowledge, and collaborates with +50 organizations across government entities, businesses, farmers, supply chain actors and consumers, policymakers, and finance agencies to deliver solutions that tackle trade-associated environmental degradation, increased inequality, and social deprivation.

Tackling the electricity crisis in Europe: emergency intervention or a full revamp?
2023-03-23 11:00 - 12:00 | Virtual Event
The energy sector has experienced turmoil in the past two years. Covid-19 lockdowns sharply reduced energy demand, causing prices to drop. Then the post-pandemic economic rebound increased demand amid supply shortages, resulting in price hikes. In the last year, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has created further uncertainty in the European policy landscape and energy markets, with supply disruptions of natural gas leading to record-high electricity prices.
In this insight hour, join us to consider how best to tackle the energy crisis in Europe. Would a reduction in usage of natural gas, and power overall, be enough to mitigate supply-side tensions and help avoid scarcity during winter months? Is that reduction even achievable? Given all the factors at play, what now needs to happen to support Europe in reaching its long-term climate objectives? What can be done to hasten the energy transition, reduce European dependency in the areas of energy and raw materials, and improve energy security for national economies?
This Insight Hour is programmed by Economist Impact and hosted by Deloitte.

Integrating ESG & Climate risks into Lending
2023-03-22 23:00 - 2023-03-23 00:00 | Virtual Event
Assessing & managing Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) and climate risks has rapidly become essential for any forward-looking company. Through hidden risks, emerging regulation, and complex value chains affectations, ESG-related issues offer credit institutions additional insights into risk management and decision-making, while also posing new data integration challenges. Innovative solutions are necessary to link the growing available ESG and climate data into credit worthiness assessment, product design, and pricing decisions.
During the webinar we will focus on key principles of ESG & climate risks integration into credit assessment and lending decision making.
Discussion points:

What are ESG & climate risks and why they are essential for day-to-day business
How ESG events impact business viability and which areas are affected
Key challenges and associated efforts when integrating ESG & climate risks
How to integrate ESG & climate risks into investment and risk management decision process
Setting operations of ESG assessment within decision making

UN 2023 Water Conference
2023-03-22 08:30 - 2023-03-24 13:00 | United Nations New York Headquarters, 405 E 42nd St, New York, NY, 10017, United States
Water is a fundamental part of all aspects of life. Water is inextricably linked to the three pillars of sustainable development, and it integrates social, cultural, economic and political values. It is crosscutting and supports the achievement of many SDGs through close linkages with climate, energy, cities, the environment, food security, poverty, gender equality and health, amongst others. With climate change profoundly affecting our economies, societies and environment, water is indeed the biggest deal breaker to achieve the internationally agreed water-related goals and targets, including those contained in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The Conference, co-hosted by the Governments of Tajikistan and the Netherlands, will feature an opening and closing ceremony, six plenary meetings and five multi-stakeholder interactive dialogues. It will also feature a number of high-level special events and side events organized by Member States, the UN system and other stakeholders.
The outcome of the Conference will be a summary of the Conference proceedings and new commitments, pledges and actions by Governments and all stakeholders towards achieving SDG 6 and other water-related goals and targets, compiled in the Water Action Agenda.

The UN 2023 Water Conference and the Water Action Agenda will unite the world for water. The key building blocks of the Water Action Agenda are:

commitment to action
sustained and scalable implementation
follow-up and review processes

These blocks will enable replication and scaling up of what works and bring successful solutions to global scale.

2023 EMA IMPACT Summit
2023-03-15 08:00 - 2023-03-16 17:00 | Pendry West Hollywood, 8430 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, CA, 90069, United States
EMA IMPACT is a two-day sustainable green business summit featuring panel and one-on-one discussions, keynote speeches and networking activities. Speakers and attendees will include leaders and changemakers from the business, environment, education, and entertainment industries. In addition to the summit, there will be a welcome reception, networking mixer with cocktails and small bites as well as breakfast and lunch served both days.

TECH23 | EHS & ESG Tech Event
2023-03-14 08:30 - 2023-03-16 13:30
NAEM’s TECH23 offers you insights into:

EHS Management and Compliance
Carbon Accounting and GHG Management
Corporate ESG Reporting

TECH23 is a Must-Attend Event
To meet the challenges of corporate transparency, ESG reporting, corporate sustainability performance, and regulatory compliance, today’s leaders must align data management, software, and technology solutions housed across a variety business functions.
TECH23 is designed to help leaders develop a strategic integration of technology systems and reporting approaches. This knowledge-building, idea-sharing event not only showcases a wide range of software and technology solutions, it also supports leaders in operationalizing their system through a host of case studies, best practices and lessons learned from corporate environments.

Join us in Tucson if you’re:

Ready to drive continuous improvement for Scope 3 data collection and management
Interested in the ways sensors and meters can improve carbon data capture and monitoring
Looking for insights into ESG software selection
Preparing to aggregate and disclose KPIs across E, S, and G
Want guidance on using data for climate risk scenario planning
Seeking the best ways to collect and organize EHS management and compliance data

Global Soil Biodiversity Conference 2023
2023-03-13 08:00 - 2023-03-15 17:00 | The Mansion House, Dawson St, Dublin 2, Ireland
The 3rd Global Soil Biodiversity Conference to be held in Dublin (Ireland) in 2023 will expand on previous GSBI conferences and convene the world’s leading experts in this interdisciplinary field of soil biodiversity science to present and discuss recent advances addressing the urgency of meeting global challenges which link to human, animal and plant health and a more sustainable world. The conference will be the top meeting for all scientists, technologists, experimentalists and modellers, students and practitioners working on any aspects of soil biodiversity science and its linkages to the functioning of our global biosphere. The conference will provide the latest updates on soil biodiversity research and knowledge for scientists, policy makers, regulators, environmental agencies, conservationists, land user managers and other stakeholders in the sustainable use and conservation of soil biodiversity.
The historic Round Room at the Mansion House on Dawson Street in Dublin will be the venue for our Gala Dinner on Tuesday the 14th March at 7.30pm
The Gala Dinner will be a great opportunity for you to join the soil biodiversity community getting together, to network and socialise with your peers, and relax after a busy day of conference proceedings. The Gala Dinner ticket is €80 and has been partly sponsored by the conference organisers. The menu will have a range of options to suit all tastes. This informal and fun evening is not to be missed!
The Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative, launched in 2011, is a major stakeholder in the development of soil biodiversity policy, and the accelerating scientific knowledge underpinning the vast biological diversity contained in terrestrial soils worldwide. Among its various activities, the GSBI launched the Global Soil Biodiversity Conference held in Dijon (France, 2014) and more recently in Nanjing (China, 2017).
For further information on the GSBI’s activities, please see their website at www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org

2023 Wall Street Green Summit
2023-03-13 08:00 - 2023-03-14 17:30 | Cornell Club, NYC, 6 E 44th St, New York, NY, 10017, United States
The 2023 Wall Street Green Summit is the 22nd annual event and one of the longest running and most comprehensive sustainable finance events in the world and will be held in New York City art the Cornell Club in midtown Manhattan and virtually on Zoom on Monday March 13th and Tuesday March 14th 2023.
Launched in 2002 by Peter Fusaro, this conference will be both in person and on Zoom covering cutting edge content and industry developments, and featuring the leading practitioners in sustainability.
More importantly, it is aimed at building a sustainable finance system for responsible investing and the changing role of business.
The 2023 Wall Street Green Summit agenda is focused on key topical areas of ESG Investing & Reporting, Carbon Markets and Finance, Clean Energy solutions to climate change, and Greening Clean Transportation.

ESG Executive Collaboration Forum | Session VII
2023-03-09 11:00 - 12:00 | Virtual Event
In these 1-hour sessions, you’ll hear from subject matter experts on emerging and urgent ESG issues related to the global regulatory and reporting landscape, climate strategy, ESG disclosure and data management, risk management, and more.
Connect with ESG leaders in an open exchange of insights and best practices, find out how your peers are overcoming common challenges, and learn what you can do to strengthen your ESG program and your company’s results.

A Call for ESG Certification within the Investment Industry: A Fireside Chat with Andrew Rabinowitz, Melanie Steiner, and Joelle Wyser-Pratte
2023-03-08 11:00 - 13:00 | Virtual Event
With Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) and climate change disclosure requirements on the rise, investors are demanding asset managers be transparent in their investment process. To avoid the perception of greenwashing, firms and funds must certify to the market that their ESG commitments are trustworthy and valid.
K2 Integrity and Chimera Capital Partners, LLC invite you to attend a one-hour webinar featuring a conversation about ESG certification between Andrew Rabinowitz, co-CEO and board member of K2 Integrity, Melanie Steiner, Corporate ESG managing director at K2 Integrity, and Joelle Wyser-Pratte, founder of Chimera Capital Partners, LLC. Andrew will share how his passion for ESG launched the creation of K2 Integrity’s independent ESG fund certification for the investment industry to help prevent greenwashing. Learn how the certification alerts the market and investors that a fund has a systematic approach to ESG and aligns funds and fund managers as they work to develop ESG regulations and frameworks.

Addressing the Gender Gap in Corporate America
2023-03-07 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual Event
International Women’s Day is a global holiday celebrated annually on March 8 as a focal point in the women’s rights movement, bringing attention to issues such as gender equality, reproductive rights, and violence and abuse against women. This webinar will celebrate International Women’s Day and highlight the gender work of some of the companies that have participated in Network USA’s Target Gender Equality accelerator program. Panelists will present their organization’s journey around gender equality, successful practices, practical tips, and learnings.

5th United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5)
2023-03-05 09:00 - 2023-03-09 18:00 | DOHA, QATAR, Doha, Qatar
The world’s Least Developed Countries are in a race against time to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. The remaining years need to usher in a new global partnership to ensure these 46 countries benefit from social, economic and environmental development.
The Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5) is a once-in-a-decade opportunity to accelerate sustainable development in the places where international assistance is needed the most – and to tap the full potential of the Least Developed Countries helping them make progress on the road to prosperity.
Over five days of the LDC5 Conference in Doha, world leaders will gather with the private sector, civil society, parliamentarians, and young people to advance new ideas, raise new pledges of support, and spur delivery on agreed commitments, through the Doha Programme of Action. At the Conference, it is expected that specific initiatives and concrete deliverables will be announced that will address LDC-specific challenges.
The Conference will feature plenary sessions, parallel high-level thematic roundtables, and a series of parallel and side events on various thematic priorities of the DPoA. A Summit level meeting of the LDC Group, chaired by the President of Malawi, will be held on the day before the Conference. A commemoration event on the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Group of LDCs will be held after the opening session on 5 March 2023. There will also be dedicated events for the Private Sector, CSOs, Youth, Parliamentarians and South-South tracks on the margins of the Conference.
