ESG Spring Convention – The sustainability challenge in regulation & business enterprise: education, amplification, and collaboration | Channels

The ESG Spring Convention is hosted by the CIBC Place of work of Sustainable Finance beneath the auspices of McGill’s Sustainable Expansion Initiative (SGI) and McGill Organization Law Platform. 

This conference will unite small business faculty deans, sector specialists, associates from banking, finance, and legislation firms, as nicely as educational institutions including CEGEPs, significant faculties, and local community corporations. Together, they will interact in discussions on the pressing obstacle of boosting the usefulness and universality of ESG tactics by way of collaborative, local community-based initiatives.

• 08:20 –  Registration 
• 08:40 – Welcome Remarks: Professor Peer Zumbansen, Director McGill Small business Legislation Platform, Educational Guide, SGI CIBC Place of work of Sustainable Finance, Desautels Faculty of Management  
• 08:45 –  Panel I: Sustainability Activism and the Great importance of Visibility – The Job of Regulation Firms, Companies and Stakeholder Groups in endorsing Local climate Adjust Mitigation 
  • Panelists: 
    • Harrison (“Harry”) Myles, Goldblatt Partners, LL.P. Toronto 
    • Haley Czarnek, Law College students for Weather Accountability (LSCA) [remotely] 
    • Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Chair in Sustainable Improvement Legislation and Coverage, College of Cambridge [remotely] 
    • Noah Stern, CEO Mooseknuckles, Canada 
    • Kevin Thomas, Shareholder Affiliation for Exploration and Instruction (SHARE) 
  • Moderator: 
    • Shivani Salunke, DCL/PhD Applicant, McGill College, School of Regulation
• 10:15 – Coffee Break 
• 10:30 –  Panel II: Sustainability Finance, Reconciliation and Indigenous Communities – Earning Session and Consensus a Truth in Today’s Sustainable Finance Assignments 
  • Panelists: 
    • Aaron White, Vice President, Sustainable Investments – CIBC Asset Administration
    • Jaimie Lickers, Senior VP, Indigenous Marketplaces, CIBC [remotely] 
    • Geordie Hungerford, Chief Government Officer of the Initial Nations Money Management Board [remotely]  
    • Klaus Ludwig Schilling Maciel, Latin American Weather Legal professionals Initiative for Climate Action (LACLIMA)  
    • Yvan Dude Laroque, Larocque Company Regulation, Winnipeg 
    • Luisa Castañeda-Quintana, DCL/PhD applicant, Vanier Scholar, McGill Faculty of Law [remotely] 
  • Moderator:
    • Peer Zumbansen, Director, Company Regulation Platform, McGill Regulation, CIBC Office environment of Sustainable Finance 
• 12:15 – Lunch  
• 13:45 – Panel III: Sustainability Curriculum Style Across Generations – Educating the Future Generation 
  • Panelists: 
    • Mark McGuire, John Abbott College  
    • Gracie Diabo, Loran Scholar, McGill University, College of Engineering  
    • Geoff Garver, Legislation and Governance Lead, Leadership for the Ezozoic  
    • Hannah West, JD cand. ’24, College of Toronto, School of Law, Member, UofT Legislation Union  
    • Olaf Weber, CIBC Chair in Sustainable Finance, Schulich University of Small business, York College Toronto  
    • Glen Dowell, S.C. Johnson College of Small business, Cornell University 
  • Moderator: 
    • Ella Johnson, Editor in Chief, McGill Sustainable Growth Regulation Journal 
• 15:15 – Espresso Break
• 15:30 – KEYNOTE Tackle: Weather Change, Sustainability and 21st Century Business enterprise University Education 
  • Keynote Speaker: Dean Andrew Karolyi, SC Johnson University of Small business, Cornell University 
  • Introduction: Daniel Tsai, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Queens Smith College of Small business, Senior Fellow, McGill Company Regulation Platform 
• 16:15 – DEANS’ Panel: “Sustainability as Instructional Obstacle” – The Location of Business enterprise Faculties in Switching Mindsets and Teaching the Up coming Generation” 
  • Dean Wanda Costen, Smith College of Company, Queens College
  • Dean Detlev Zwick, Schulich School of Business enterprise, York College
  • Dean Andrew Karolyi, SC Johnson University of Business enterprise, Cornell University
• 17:10 – Conclusions 
• 17:15 – Closing