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✨ How are you from 2024 onwards working to address the urgent need for transformative climate action? 💡 If you don’t have your answer ready, then EIT Climate-KIC's novel “Transformation, With Urgency” strategy might serve as useful inspiration! 🎯 This strategy is considered a piece of leading thinking for institutions aiming to bring about systemic change. 🌱 As a member of the Governing Board of Association Climate-KIC, our co-founder Kai has been involved throughout the development process of this 2024-2030 strategy. 🏫 Known as the leading climate innovation agency and community in Europe, the strategy commits Climate-KIC to fostering systemic change in the 400 cities it aims to help transform towards climate resilience by 2030. 🟢 Kirsten Dunlop, CEO of EIT Climate-KIC, put it well: “We’ve understood for a while now that innovation isn’t just about technology; it’s about transforming mindsets, industries, and systems.” 📈 At cirka cph, we have been increasingly involved in strategy development lately. We’re as excited as ever to help more organisations move towards transformation in this new year and the years to come! 🙋 If you’d like to discuss strategy and systemic change in your organisation, you’re welcome to get in touch with us or directly with Kai Paludan-Müller. 👇 To check out the beautifully illustrated strategy document, follow the link in the comments below.

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Join us on February 6th for a dynamic lunch and learn session powered by Embark! We're thrilled to have Embark as the sponsor for our first event in 2024. 📅 Date: February 6, 2024 ⏰ Time: 11:30 AM 1:30 PM 📍 Location: Constantino Restaurant, Jade and Brickell, Miami 🌆 1331 Brickell Bay Drive, Miami, FL 33133 Non-Member:$50 Members: $35 Register:https://lnkd.in/eJ_thNUN The landscape of sustainability reporting is evolving rapidly, with new climate disclosure proposals from the SEC, California's climate legislation, and international requirements from the EU and ISSB. These changes will impact companies of all types and sectors. Embark's Robby Sundberg and Allison Bradshaw will lead a discussion on the SEC's proposed climate disclosure rule, California's SB-253 and SB-261, and the EU’s CSRD. Learn what these developments mean for your organization and how to prepare effectively. This session is essential for companies in various sectors, including private equity, commercial real estate, tech, and consumer goods manufacturing, public or private. The impact is far-reaching, affecting companies of all kinds. Join our discussion to stay ahead of the curve. Don't miss this opportunity to gain insights into the changing landscape of sustainability reporting! Register now and secure your spot. See you there! 📈 #MiamiFinanceForum #SustainabilityReporting #FinanceEvent #embark #phoenix-executivesearch #CRESA #kaufmanrossin

Join us on February 6th for a dynamic lunch and learn session powered by Embark! We're thrilled to have Embark as the sponsor for our first event in 2024. 📅 Date: February 6, 2024 ⏰ Time: 11:30 AM 1:30 PM 📍 Location: Constantino Restaurant, Jade and Brickell, Miami 🌆 1331 Brickell Bay Drive, Miami, FL 33133 Non-Member:$50 Members: $35 Register:https://lnkd.in/eJ_thNUN The landscape of sustainability reporting is evolving rapidly, with new climate disclosure proposals from the SEC, California's climate legislation, and international requirements from the EU and ISSB. These changes will impact companies of all types and sectors. Embark's Robby Sundberg and Allison Bradshaw will lead a discussion on the SEC's proposed climate disclosure rule, California's SB-253 and SB-261, and the EU’s CSRD. Learn what these developments mean for your organization and how to prepare effectively. This session is essential for companies in various sectors, including private equity, commercial real estate, tech, and consumer goods manufacturing, public or private. The impact is far-reaching, affecting companies of all kinds. Join our discussion to stay ahead of the curve. Don't miss this opportunity to gain insights into the changing landscape of sustainability reporting! Register now and secure your spot. See you there! 📈 #MiamiFinanceForum #SustainabilityReporting #FinanceEvent #embark #phoenix-executivesearch #CRESA #kaufmanrossin

#ClimateWeekNYC and #UNGA Week are electric. You can feel the energy walking down the streets of New York City, and you can sense the anticipation and excitement in the conversations. But we all know climate change is happening and that urgent action is needed, so what’s next? Here’s a few of my big takeaways from this year: 1.    As a corporation looking to advance sustainability action, start with your hot spots. What problems can you tackle immediately? Sustainability can feel daunting at times, but doing what you can today already puts you ahead of where you were yesterday. 2.    The roles of Chief Sustainability Officers and Chief Financial Officers are becoming increasingly intertwined. To embed sustainability into core business processes and daily decision-making, we need to treat carbon like money. (Check out the article below!) 3.    Take time to tap into the incredible pool of learning, resources, and communities of practices that exist. We are all on the journey together, and by teaming up, we can drive change more quickly. It was wonderful to meet so many of my sustainability colleagues for the first time or to reconnect after time away. Sophia Leonora Mendelsohn, Gunther Rothermel, Alicia Lenze, Deborah Kaplan, Pedro S. Pereira, Sean Boileau CMA, James Sullivan, Japen Hollist, Joe Mulligan, Thamara Ramirez-Walker Executive MBA, MS, CHIEF, Anina Monteforte, Ben Christensen, John Baxter, and many more! Seeing my sister, Mallory Cannon, speak about UN Global Compact Network USA's Climate Ambition Accelerator was another highlight! Being surround personally and professionally by incredible people committed to the same vision brings me motivation and hope for what’s to come. #SAPSustainability

Yesterdays session on "Funding Climate Change Initiatives - Who pays for it ?" was one of the more than 20 sessions, with more than 50 speakers and 450 attendees of our succesful 2nd Belgian Impact Day. Thanks Magali Minet for the perfect and professional moderation and my co-panellists Laurence CARON-HABIB and Constance d'Aspremont for their sharing their views on how regulation via EU & governments and better data & impact measurement can help to fund more of those needed Climate Change Initiatives and make them more effective ! My take away: to derisk financing climate initiatives for all, to democratize impact investing, some will have to take higher risks and continue pioneering. That's why we need Impact Finance Belgium. That's why we need to break the silo's and collaborate more between philanthropy, social first impact investing and finance first impact investing.

Sustainability & Creative Industries: Your insights on networking and knowledge exchange are crucial. Are sustainability and climate change part of your agenda in the Creative Industries, the Cultural Economy or associated supply chains? Please fill out our survey at https://buff.ly/4bwuQIB by May 28th and join our informative webinar in June to discuss the findings. Trevor Davis

Business for Nature One of my key takeaways from attending climate week in NYC a few weeks ago, was the importance of nature and ensuring that biodiversity is protected. Restoring nature while maintaining biodiversity can be at least 30% of the solution to the climate crisis we are now in. Ironically, indiscriminately planting trees in a grab for carbon offsets can also create imbalance in local ecosystems, including displacing indigenous people, so more thought is needed. Investment in nature and biodiversity is woefully woefully inadequate, with too much always directed into climate tech - hoping for Unicorn level ROIs. Eva Zabey, CEO of Business for Nature (BFN), has informed my SEA working group for the Planetary Health Alliance (comprising over 380 universities, NGOs research institutes, and government entities from around the globe) that BFN will launch a new major business action campaign on nature on 9 November, called ‘It’s Now for Nature – where is nature in your business strategy?’ which aims to rally all businesses to act on nature. Through a new Nature Strategy Handbook, developed in collaboration with PwC, that aim of the campaign is to encourage companies to develop a nature strategy and publish it on the ‘It’s Now for Nature' website ahead of COP16, due to take place in October 2024.   See these links: https://nowfornature.org/ https://lnkd.in/exPwEkAu The campaign will launch on 9 November at a global webinar for all businesses and financial institutions.   There will be two sessions, which you are all welcome to join.   * Session 1:  10:00 -11:15am CET (Register here: https://lnkd.in/e2EY55Yp) * Session 2:  4:00 - 5:15pm CET (Register here: https://lnkd.in/ehFkGN72)   For background on Eva and Business for Nature, check out their recent X/Twitter or LinkedIn posts: https://lnkd.in/ebCcS37q https://lnkd.in/eadV2F6W Thank you. Bruce

ONLY A FEW SPOTS REMAIN FOR TUESDAY'S LUNCH AND LEARN POWERED BY EMBARK. Join us on February 6th for a dynamic lunch and learning session Date: February 6, 2024 ⏰ Time: 11:30 AM 1:30 PM 📍 Location: Constantino Restaurant, Jade and Brickell, Miami 🌆 1331 Brickell Bay Drive, Miami, FL 33133 Non-Member:$50 Members: $35 AT DOOR: $65 Register:https://lnkd.in/eJ_thNUN The landscape of sustainability reporting is evolving rapidly, with new climate disclosure proposals from the SEC, California's climate legislation, and international requirements from the EU and ISSB. These changes will impact companies of all types and sectors. Embark's Robby Sundberg and Allison Bradshaw will lead a discussion on the SEC's proposed climate disclosure rule, California's SB-253 and SB-261, and the EU’s CSRD. Learn what these developments mean for your organization and how to prepare effectively. This session is essential for companies in various sectors, including private equity, commercial real estate, tech, and consumer goods manufacturing, public or private. The impact is far-reaching, affecting companies of all kinds. Join our discussion to stay ahead of the curve. Don't miss this opportunity to gain insights into the changing landscape of sustainability reporting! Register now and secure your spot. See you there! 📈 #MiamiFinanceForum #SustainabilityReporting #FinanceEvent #embark #phoenix-executivesearch #CRESA #kaufmanrossin

ONLY A FEW SPOTS REMAIN FOR TUESDAY'S LUNCH AND LEARN POWERED BY EMBARK. Join us on February 6th for a dynamic lunch and learning session Date: February 6, 2024 ⏰ Time: 11:30 AM 1:30 PM 📍 Location: Constantino Restaurant, Jade and Brickell, Miami 🌆 1331 Brickell Bay Drive, Miami, FL 33133 Non-Member:$50 Members: $35 AT DOOR: $65 Register:https://lnkd.in/eJ_thNUN The landscape of sustainability reporting is evolving rapidly, with new climate disclosure proposals from the SEC, California's climate legislation, and international requirements from the EU and ISSB. These changes will impact companies of all types and sectors. Embark's Robby Sundberg and Allison Bradshaw will lead a discussion on the SEC's proposed climate disclosure rule, California's SB-253 and SB-261, and the EU’s CSRD. Learn what these developments mean for your organization and how to prepare effectively. This session is essential for companies in various sectors, including private equity, commercial real estate, tech, and consumer goods manufacturing, public or private. The impact is far-reaching, affecting companies of all kinds. Join our discussion to stay ahead of the curve. Don't miss this opportunity to gain insights into the changing landscape of sustainability reporting! Register now and secure your spot. See you there! 📈 #MiamiFinanceForum #SustainabilityReporting #FinanceEvent #embark #phoenix-executivesearch #CRESA #kaufmanrossin