HEC Climate Day 2024

The S&O Climate & Earth Center is delighted to invite you to the 3rd edition of the S&O Climate Day, on May 22nd, 2024 on HEC campus, all day long.

Addressing the climate emergency creates major challenges for business leaders and policy makers. The objective of this HEC Climate Day is to bring together HEC students, researchers, experts, external guests from partner companies, as well as alumni, and staff members to discuss strategic orientations, potential solutions, and ongoing achievements to respond to these challenges.

For this 3rd edition, we have the honor to welcome as keynote speaker: 

8:30 a.m. – Welcome Coffee

9:00 a.m. – Opening by Eloic Peyrache, Dean HEC Paris and Fernando Díaz López, Executive Director, Climate & Earth Center, HEC Paris

9:15 a.m. – Keynote address: Climate  Risk Management and Financing
Ibrahima Cheikh Diong, United Nations Assistant Secretary General (ASG) and Director General of African Risk Capacity (ARC) Group

10:00 a.m. – Moderated Discussion and Q&A
Moderator: Fernando Díaz López, Executive Director, Climate & Earth Center (HEC Paris)

10:30 a.m. – Coffee Break 

Scaling up international climate finance

11:00 a.m. – Scaling up international climate finance

Panel discussion with: Pascale Albert-Lebrun, Deputy CEO (Eranove Group), Joumana Asso, Founder and Managing Director (Clima Capital Partners); Claire Eschalier, Senior Project Manager – Institute for Climate Economics (I4CE), and Stéphanie Mouen, Deputy Director Climate and Nature Division (French Development Agency)

Moderator: Igor Shishlov, Research Associate – Climate and Earth Center, S&O Institute (HEC Paris) and Head of Climate Finance (Perspectives Climate Group)

Mobilizing private savings towards the low-carbon transition

2:00 p.m. –  Mobilizing private savings towards the low-carbon transition

Panel discussion with: Eleonore Bedel, Chief Sustainability Officer (BNP Paribas), Maud Caillaux, CEO (Green-Got), Antoine Laurent, Advocacy Officer (Reclaim Finance), and Lamia Yous-Chouiten, Chief Sustainability Officer (Natixis Investment Managers)

Moderator: François Gemenne, Professor of Economics & Decision Sciences (Education Track, HEC Paris)

3:30 p.m. – Coffee Break

Co-creating sustainability across the value chain

4:00 p.m. – Co-creating sustainability across the value chain

Panel discussion with: Florence Bulté, Chief Sustainability Officer (Chalhoub Group), Fabien Chêne, Head of Sustainability Business Europe (Schneider Electric), David Grall, VP Sustainability & Corporate Transformation (Nexans Group), and Michele Lacroix, Group Head of Sustainability (SCOR)

Moderator: Daniel Halbheer, Academic Director – Climate and Earth Center, S&O Institute and Holder of the FII Institute Chair on Circular Business Models (HEC Paris)

Young Generation’s Vision for the Transition

5:30 p.m. – Young Generation’s Vision for the Transition: Leonie Hoffmann and Antoine Meyer - HEC Students

 
6:00 p.m – 7:00 p.m. – Wrap-up and Cocktail reception

We gratefully acknowledge the funding of this event by our partners

During the event, we will be delighted to launch officially the release of the

 Knowledge@HEC Special issue "Aligning Business with Planetary Bounderies"