Top Tier Impact at Climate Week NYC 2024
September 22-29, 2024
The race to rebuild our connection with nature and address climate change is on.
During Climate Week NYC 2024, Top Tier Impact hosted two exclusive roundtables that focus on key topics to advance real change.
Investors, corporates, innovators, indigenous leaders and the press gathered to find new solutions together.
Insetting & Offsetting: Corporate Transition Roundtable
The evening started with a welcome speech from Top Tier Impact, Gensler & Griffitts.
The panel discussion on “Insetting vs Offsetting: Corporate Transition Roundtable” was moderated by İlkay Demirdag, Top Tier Impact Head of Global Events, featuring:
Kristina Anguelova, Senior Advisor & Consultant at WWF
Sebastien Douieb, Senior Investment Office, Real Assets, New York State Common Retirement Fund
Robert Allard, Co-founder at MaxSum Environmental
Jerome Rouphael, Commodities Institutional Sales & Structuring at JP Morgan
Following this, a roundtable discussion took place which was moderated by Humberto Juarez Rocha, Carbon and Biodiversity Editor at Dow Jones OPIS and Alessa Berg, Founder and CEO at Top Tier Impact.
Nature & Biodiversity Investments Roundtable
The second event focused on building on the momentum of Top Tier Impact and Ethic’s activities in nature investing. The morning started with a welcome speech from Top Tier Impact and Ethic.
The panel discussion on “Showcasing Nature & Biodiversity Investments” was moderated by İlkay Demirdag, Top Tier Impact Head of Global Events, featuring:
David Sternlicht, Nature Investing at Ethic
Kahlil Baker, CEO at Taking Root
Allison Voss, Nature Innovation Lead at World Economic Forum
Erika Basham, Director, Investments & Product Strategy at Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund
The panel was followed by a roundtable discussion on “What does it take for nature investing to go into the mainstream?” moderated by Alessa Berg, Founder and CEO at Top Tier Impact. To close off the event, leading investors and corporates networked with one another, exchanging key insights and making meaningful connections.
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A platform that empowers wealth advisors and investors to create portfolios that align personal values with financial goals.
Gensler is a dynamic and collaborative global design firm with 57 locations uniting creativity, research, and innovation to solve complex problems for its clients. Gensler’s work challenges conventional ideas about architecture and the built environment.
Griffitts LLP is a boutique law firm based in NYC and LA servicing founders, investors, and emerging companies that advises on corporate, intellectual property, venture financing, mergers and acquisitions, and related contract work matters. Many of their clients are growth-stage companies in the creative, technology, cannabis, blockchain and crypto, and consumer product industries. For many clients, MGA plays an outside general counsel role.
OmniReality is curating an ecosystem of content, technology, and experiences for dome venues to seed an Extended Reality (XR) revolution that utilize digital media to technology to unite people and communities, both physically & virtually.
OPIS, a Dow Jones Company, powers the global energy community with authoritative market news, data, analysis, forecasting and consulting. Market participants across the value chain trust their expertise in energy, chemicals and environmental commodities to make critical business decisions as they navigate the energy transition.
Sustainable Views is the authoritative source of information on developments in ESG policy and regulation, the impact of sustainability metrics on capital markets, and the transition to a green and just economy. With thorough trend analysis, data journalism and informed comment, they provide readers with unique insights to help them mitigate risk and stay ahead of peers on the defining issue of our time. Sustainable Views helps its readers to perform their jobs more effectively.
