Ask any asset manager and we think nearly all of them would agree with this statement. The problem is not the “why,” it’s the “how,” but the solutions are starting to arise within the investment community. Asset managers are increasingly able to measure investees’ approach to climate transition risk, climate physical risk, and how companies are embedding measurement of climate into their businesses (potentially even unearthing opportunities to grow their own businesses). We’ll hear from leaders that will walk us through how they seek to build portfolios that meet client net zero demands and the strategies that they believe are working for them in generating returns and lowering risk.

Sarah Hughes, Head of Responsible Investing, American Century Investment Management

Yes, we all read the headlines too. Regulators and legislators across the globe have their own independent views of what companies should be saying and doing on addressing their externalities. We’ll check in with the latest from the legal perspective with a firm with a finger on the pulse of changes both domestic and international.

Raya Treiser, Partner, Government, Regulatory & Internal Investigations Practice Group, Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Companies hoping to show the success of their programs to stakeholders face an increasingly fraught landscape of headline risks. On the other hand, ceasing all communications will have an impact on your business too. We’ll tap into the strategies in use by clients of top communicators to thread the needle in 2025.

Michael Maslansky, CEO, maslansky + partners

Some of the happiest chief sustainability officers we’ve spoken to are the ones that have handed the process for managing sustainability data to experts armed with the latest technology…leaving them free to drive business decisions based on it. Here we’ll learn how leading companies make data flow, set up control environments in an effort to ensure accuracy for stakeholders, and show the ROI on sustainability investments. We’ll also cover some best practices for communicating that ROI internally and externally.

Companies hoping to meet their own climate goals as well as contribute to the goals of their customers are starting to work side by side with their value chains. We’ll learn from practitioners that have built out programs that offer incentives, improve transparency, and seek to help every part of the value chain to make decisions.

Devin Carsdale, Director of Sustainability for Strategic Sourcing, Bristol Myers

NYSE maintains an ongoing dialogue with our listed company sustainability leads - and at every closed-door event we collect feedback from our participants on what they see as their success stories as well as their top challenges. For our interactive session, we’ll have moderated table discussions where our participants share what they believe have worked for them on each of eight different topics (and…what they think should be avoided…)