John: Climate Week NYC starts Monday—a virtual event has never felt this urgent or prescient.
As West Coast wildfires continue to destroy land, property, and life, climate change must be top of mind. This moment—this crisis—calls for proactive, decisive measures to halt, even reverse, rising temperatures.
Climate Week NYC, the largest climate summit of 2020, will examine the ways we can rebuild after COVID-19 to attain net-zero emissions.
Ceres is proud to be an official Climate Week NYC event host and is organizing a series of webinars during the Climate Week 2020.
You can register for any or all of these sessions by visiting our events page or clicking on the links below. |
| Municipalities are on the front line of climate risk. Infrastructure needs to be built, repaired and replaced, all of which will require investment capital. Important considerations for investors and borrowers include determining how these long-term projects are accounting for climate change and reducing risk, factoring climate resiliency, and accounting for the transition to clean energy. Climate aware funding strategies have implications for the city's bond rating and cost of capital. |
In light of this summer's momentous 15-state Memorandum of Understanding on Medium- and Heavy-Duty Zero-Emission Vehicles, more than 30% of the nation's commercial vehicle market is now pushing collaboratively toward a 30% zero-emission share of sales by 2030.
Join CALSTART and Ceres for a workshop highlighting various perspectives on the most instrumental drivers of market transformation. Fleet, manufacturer, environmental justice, and NGO voices will discuss what leading states and cities can do to most quickly and equitably drive transformation in commercial vehicles to deliver cleaner air for their communities. We will highlight global best practices and explore how leading strategies like purchase incentives and utility preparedness can be adapted and scaled domestically, on both regional and national scales. |
| As we near another election in the U.S., climate change is a major election issue as voters head to the polls in November. It has been one of the most politically divisive issues of our time, but there is a shift happening across the country, as more and more Republicans recognize the need for swift action on climate. Join us for a one-on-one conversation between Ceres federal policy manager, Martha Newell-Kinsman and Bob Inglis, founder of RepublicEn and former Congressman from South Carolina. |
| Climate risks pose particular uncertainty to portfolios from a regulatory, economic and a reputational perspective. That’s why it is important for companies and investors to understand the role they play in corporate lobbying practices. Examples include how they are enabling policy-makers to close the ‘ambition gap’, advocating for climate-smart policy, supporting through membership in certain business organizations, and contributing to campaigns, political groups and think tanks. However, understanding what tools address risk is key, because then they can engage in climate policy and disclosure more effectively. |
| It is increasingly apparent that impacts from climate change pose not just financial and material risks to companies and industries, but in fact pose systemic risk to financial markets writ large. Given the nature of this risk, all corporate action—including corporate lobbying—should be proportional to the risk faced and aligned with the latest science on climate change. More and more investors understand that corporate lobbying that is not aligned with climate science is an investment risk. Ceres Blueprint on Responsible Policy Engagement on Climate Change provides detailed recommendations for how companies can align their risk, governance, and lobbying on climate change
with the latest climate science and drive “risk aware” climate lobbying. |
Other Related Events at Climate Week 2020
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12-1 pm EDT
Join us for the Financing a Sustainable Future session in Part 1 of Sustainable Investment Forum’s four-part digital series to hear how to push for a net-zero emissions economy. Ceres Executive Vice President and Chief Program Officer Dawn Martin will moderate as speakers discuss climate-aligned investing and forward scenario risk analysis, and more. Ceres is an Institutional Partner with the Sustainable Investment Forum North America 2020, the largest finance forum during Climate Week NYC 2020. |
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