🗓️ When: Saturday, June 1st, 2024
📍 Where: INSEAD Europe Campus (Boulevard de Constance, 77305 Fontainebleau, France).
On Saturday June 1st at INSEAD’s Europe Campus, Business Schools for Climate Leadership (BS4CL) brings together leading alumni from its eight partner schools in a unique Forum to explore how to accelerate the financing of the climate transition.
The objectives of the Forum are to:
- Identify research-based insights and solutions the BS4CL alumni community can jointly promote to accelerate the role of the private sector in financing the climate transition and achieving the objectives agreed at the UNFCCC Conference of the parties (COP).
- Act as a bridge between COPs, inspiring business to take a leadership role in achieving progress.
- Design an action plan to mobilize alumni from all 8 leading European business schools in a united effort to magnify the role of business in climate leadership en route to COP 29.
- Deploy the knowledge of our communities of researchers and alumni to a wider audience of business practitioners, policymakers, and government officials.
Please note that participation in the forum is by invitation only.
Programme:
8:45 – 9:00 am: Welcome Coffee
Location: Camembert Area’
9:00 – 9:30 am: Welcome & Presentation by the BS4CL Executive Committee
Location: Auditorium MAAG
9:30 – 10:15 am: Keynote Address – Window into the future: What’s next in sustainability?
Keynote Speaker:
- Pavan Sukhdev: CEO, GIST Impact
10:15 – 11:00 am: Financial Innovation to Fund the Transition
Speakers:
- Laurent Babikian: Former Global Director Data Products & Distribution, CDP
- Vanina Farber: Dean of Executive MBA, elea Chair for Social Innovation, Professor of Social and Financial Innovation, International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
- Prerna Wadikar: Global Advisory Council Member, Tech India Advocates
Moderator: Lucie Tepla; Senior Affiliate Professor of Finance, INSEAD
Description: Achieving Net Zero by 2050 will necessitate a massive reallocation of capital around the world that will only succeed if both public and private sector financial organisations ensure that their financing decisions and other actions support decarbonisation efforts in the real economy. In this session, we focus specifically on the role of financial innovation in delivering the climate transition. Can new investment products or financing mechanisms, such as transition and blended finance, accelerate impact at scale in the real economy? What are promising new developments but also challenges in this field?
11:00 – 11:15 am: Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:00 pm: Deans’ Panel – New Era of Business Education
Location: Hybrid; live streamed on BS4CL YouTube channel
Speakers:
- Lee Newman: Dean, IE Business School
- François Ortalo-Magné: Dean, London Business School
- Francisco Veloso:Dean, INSEAD
Moderator: Liz Perkins; Night News Editor, Express Newspapers
Description: We all agree that business schools have a crucial role to play in enabling that critical transition to a more equitable and sustainable society and one that places the global climate and crisis at the centre of all considerations. The challenge at hand is about ensuring business schools be agents of change at a scale and speed that is needed to address the world’s environmental and social crises. What are business schools doing to equip future leaders to act responsibly and drive sustainable, meaningful change in business? How are business schools motivating students to embrace the concepts, tools, and frameworks connected to sustainable development practices? How are business schools engaging their alumni communities in projects positively impacting communities around the world, extending a ripple effect far beyond our classrooms?
12:05 – 12:20 pm: Group Photograph
Location: The Cercle
12:20 – 1:30 pm: Networking Lunch
Location: The Cercle
2:00 – 2:45 pm: Climate Transition Dilemmas: Transitioning from Fossil Fuels to Renewables
Speakers:
- Jean-Michel Gauthier:Affiliate Professor; Executive Director of the Energy & Finance Chair, HEC Paris
- Felicity Tan:Director, The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP)
- Hisham Uddin: Head of Strategic Growth & Venture Capital, Sungrow Europe
Moderator: Stefanie Hauer; Founder and Host, Planetary Business
Description: There is a huge disconnect between where we should be on our journey to net zero and where we are. What is keeping us from transitioning faster? Which are the moral, technical, social and financial dilemmas? What effect is energy having on geopolitical developments, and how can we make it a just transition? Panellists with a truly international background share best practices in system leadership, tech and finance.
2:45 – 3:30 pm: Climate Transition Dilemmas: Scaling New Solutions and Circular Economy Models
Speakers:
- Alexander Palkovsky: Vice-President, Euro Lithium-Borates
- Larissa Sidarto: Commissioner, Green Rebel Foods
- Robert Witik:Cluster Head & Senior Analyst (Materials & Industrials), Robeco
Moderator: Christopher Caldwell; CEO, United Renewables
Description: By breaking free of fossil fuels, we are entering a new technological odyssey, in fact setting ourselves up for a new dependence on natural resources and rare metals that have become vital to our new ecological and digital society. But what does it really mean in terms of environmental impact, economic costs, and geopolitical considerations? We see great investments being dedicated to the deployment of user infrastructures, but what about the sourcing of raw materials – how can we improve the mining industry and reduce externalities? The battle against China – the challenges that countries face to compete with such a dominant player.
3:30 – 3:45 pm: Coffee Break
3:45 – 4:30 pm: Tales from the Trenches: Careers with Impact
Speakers:
- Robin Millington: CEO, Planet Tracker
- Gerhard Mulder: CEO & Founder, Climate Risk Services
- Gerrit Sindermann: Executive Director, Green Digital Finance Alliance (GDFA)
- David Zorn: Head of Strategic Partnerships, Climeworks
Moderator: Rajarshi Ray; Climate Subject Matter Expert, SLB
Description: This panel comprised of VCs and founders will be sharing their inspirational stories, their challenges, and aspirations for the future. What are the opportunities and threats in financing green projects and startups? What is their take on ESG? Is the right talent available and what role are governments and legislators playing in this space?
4:30 – 5:30 pm: Alumni Networking Workshop
Location: Auditorium MAAG + Breakout Rooms
5:30 – 5:45 pm: Closing Remarks
5:45pm – 7:00 pm: Networking Cocktail
Location: INSEAD Restaurant
*This programme is subject to change
Forum webcards available here.
🗣️ Speakers:
- Lee Newman: Dean, IE Business School
- François Ortalo-Magné: Dean, London Business School
- Francisco Veloso: Dean, INSEAD
- Laurent Babikian: Former Global Director Data Products & Distribution, CDP
- Vanina Farber: Dean of Executive MBA, elea Chair for Social Innovation, Professor of Social and Financial Innovation, International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
- Jean-Michel Gauthier: Affiliate Professor; Executive Director of the Energy & Finance Chair, HEC Paris
- Robin Millington: CEO, Planet Tracker
- Gerhard Mulder: CEO & Founder, Climate Risk Services
- Alexander Palkovsky: Vice-President, Euro Lithium-Borates
- Larissa Sidarto: Commissioner, Green Rebel Foods
- Gerrit Sindermann: Executive Director, Green Digital Finance Alliance (GDFA)
- Pavan Sukhdev: CEO, GIST Impact
- Felicity Tan: Director, The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP)
- Hisham Uddin: Head of Strategic Growth & Venture Capital, Sungrow Europe
- Prerna Wadikar: ESG Expert; Global Advisory Council Member, Tech India Advocates
- Robert Witik: Cluster Head & Senior Analyst (Materials & Industrials), Robeco
- David Zorn: Head of Strategic Partnerships, Climeworks
Stay tuned for upcoming further information!
