Top Tier Impact at NY Climate Week
September 22-29, 2024
The race to rebuild our connection with nature and address climate change is on.
During NY Climate Week, Top Tier Impact is hosting two exclusive roundtables that focus on key topics to advance real change.
Investors, corporates, innovators, indigenous leaders and the press will gather to find new solutions together.
💸 Insetting & Offsetting: Corporate Transition (Roundtable)
Date: September 23rd, 2024
Time: 14:00 - 17:00
Explore the latest strategies for reducing corporate carbon footprints at our private roundtable discussion. We'll dive into the benefits and challenges of insetting & offsetting, with leading corporates & investors offering valuable perspectives on their implementation, investment impacts, and overall effectiveness in advancing sustainability.
🗣️ 14.00 - 14.10 Opening Remarks by Top Tier Impact, Gensler & Griffitts
🌱 14.10 - 14.40 Panel Discussion: “Insetting vs Offsetting: Corporate Transition Roundtable”
Moderator:
llkay Demirdag, Head of Global Events at Top Tier Impact
Speakers:
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
💼 14.40 - 16.10 Roundtable: “Insetting vs Offsetting: Corporate Transition Roundtable”
Moderators:
Humberto Juarez Rocha, Carbon and Biodiversity Editor at Dow Jones OPIS
Alessa Berg, Founder and CEO at Top Tier Impact
🎤 16.10 - 16.20 Closing Remarks by Top Tier Impact
🤝 16.20 - 17.00 Networking
🌳 Nature & Biodiversity Investments (Roundtable)
Date: September 26th, 2024
Time: 08:30 - 10:30
Investing in nature and biodiversity is critical for a sustainable future, but significant challenges and a wide financing gap still exist. How can we fix this? Building on the momentum of Top Tier Impact and Ethic’s activities in nature investing, we’ll explore what it takes to bring more capital into nature-based investments, propose transformative changes in regulation & standards, and deliver real impact.
🗣️ 08.30 - 08.35 Opening Remarks by Top Tier Impact & Ethic
🐝 08.35 - 08.55 Panel Discussion: “Showcasing Nature & Biodiversity Investments”
Moderator:
Alessa Berg, Founder and CEO at Top Tier Impact
Speakers:
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
💰 08.55 - 09.40 Roundtable: “What does it take for nature investing to go into the mainstream?”
Moderator:
Alessa Berg, Founder and CEO at Top Tier Impact
🎤 09.40 - 09.45 Closing Remarks by Top Tier Impact & Ethic
🥂 09.45 - 10.00 Networking
Sponsored by:
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.
