2023 Aspen ESG Summit: Resources
Aspen ESG Summit: Resources
Tuesday, July 11
Main Stage Opening: Resetting the ESG Narrative
- Playing Offense: Sabastian Niles at Wachtell Lipton on the Risks of Taking Your Eye Off the ESG Ball
- Navigating the Current ESG Landscape: Recommendations for the Board and Management [Lipton and Lu]
- Walking the Talk: Valuing a Multi-Stakeholder Strategy [FCLT Global / Wharton]
- ESG Investing Legislation, 2023-2024 Legislative Session [Mann]
- Freedom to Invest [CERES]
- Gas, Guns, and Governments: Financial Costs of Anti-ESG Policies [Garrett]
Dialogue Stream: What is ESG Investing Designed to Do?
- Sustainable Investing Performance Realities: Revisited [Snider, Gradovich]
- Milton Friedman Versus Kofi Annan: Sorting Through the Value of ESG [Siwo]
- Climate leadership wanted: How CEOs can better meet investor expectations [Strategy+Business]
- Rating the ESG Rating Agencies [FT]
- A New Way of Seeing Value [Henisz]
Dialogue Stream: Unlocking the Power of Worker Voice
- What Will It Take to Close the Executive-Worker Voice Gap? [Business & Society Program]
- Dear CEO: Here’s Why You Should Trust Your Employees [Roach]
- What We Mean by Worker Voice [National Fund for Workforce Solutions]
- The Board’s Oversight of Employee Voice [State Street]
- Worker Voices: Shifting Perspectives and Expectations on Employment [Federal Reserve]
Dialogue Stream: Telling Better Stories Around “ESG”
Wednesday, July 12
Dialogue Stream: Remaking Corporate Culture: Beyond DEI Headcounts
- Listen to Lead: Raise Retention and Boost Business [Ford Foundation]
- Missing Pieces Report: A board diversity census of women and underrepresented racial and ethnic groups on Fortune 500 boards, 7th edition [Deloitte]
- The 2021 CEO Blueprint for Racial Equity [PolicyLink / JUST Capital / FSG]
- The Equity Imperative [Deloitte]
- Corporate Performance Standards On Racial & Economic Equity [Corporate Racial Equity Alliance]
Dialogue Stream: Capturing the Green Premium
- Winning in Green Markets [World Economic Forum]
- Capturing the Green Premium_Session Slides [Pineda, BCG]
Dialogue Stream: In Search of Collective Action: What Are Trade Groups Doing in Your Name?
- Leading Lobbying Practices to Drive 1.5C° Policy Action [Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility]
- Global Standard on Responsible Corporate Climate Lobbying [Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change]
- Net Zero and the Need for New Leadership in Corporate Climate Advocacy [InfluenceMap]
- InfluenceMap’s Coverage of Industry Associations
Thursday, July 13
Optional Breakfast Workshop: Will Private Capital Transform ESG?
- Private Equity Should Take the Lead in Sustainability [Eccles, Shandal and Young]
- ESG Metrics in Private Equity [Sustainable Markets Initiative; Eccles, Ramnath, Lush]
- Valuing Carbon in Private Markets [Sustainable Markets Initiative, Private Equity Task Force]
- Nature Positive: The Next Horizon for Private Equity [Sustainable Markets Initiative, Private Equity Task Force]
- Corporate Governance and Pollution Externalities: Comparison of Public and Private Firms [Shive, Forster]
Dialogue Stream: When Nature Has Standing
- Natural Capital Protocols Principles and Framework [Natural Capital Coalition]
- How the Nature-Related Disclosure Landscape is Evolving [EY]
- Introducing Science-Based Targets for Nature [SBTN]
- TNFD Beta Framework Analysis [EY]
- COP15 Global Biodiversity Framework and Business Disclosure [Business for Nature]
- The Coming Wave of “Natural Capital” and Biodiversity Shareholder Activism and Stewardship Pressure on Boards [Niles and Lu]
Dialogue Stream: Resilient Workforce, Resilient Company
- The People Factor: How Investing in Employees Pays Off [FCLT Global / Wharton]
- The Stock Market Valuation of Human Capital Creation [Regier and Rouen]
- Does Your Company Offer Fruitful Careers or Dead End Jobs [Rouen and Escobari]
- JUST Capital Workers/Leaders Index Concept
- When workers are an employer’s No. 1 priority, stockholders benefit too [MarketWatch]