8:30 - 9:00 am

NAVIGATING THE ANTHROPOCENE: UNDERSTANDING PLANETARY BOUNDARIES FOR SUSTAINABLE ACTION

9:00 - 9:30 am

PLANETARY EMERGENCY: CAN FINANCE REVERSE THE TREND?

9:30 - 10:30 am

PANEL

Geneviève Morin, President and CEO, Fondaction
Philippe Zaouati,  Founder & CEO, Mirova

MODERATOR
Béatrice Alain, Executive Director, Chantier de l'Économie Sociale

10:30 - 11:00 am

10:30 am -12:00 pm

SUSTAINABLE REPORTING: A TRANSFORMATIVE LEVER FOR GLOBAL FINANCE

11:00 am -12:00 pm

PANEL
Mihaela Stefanov, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Risk Management and Corporate Social Responsibility, Boralex
Anne-Marie-Monette, Managing Director, Financial Markets, Sustainable Finance, National Bank of Canada
Travis Seymour, Chief Executive Officer, First Nations Market Housing Fund (FNMHF)

MODERATOR
Adelaide Chiu, Vice President and Head of Responsible Investing, NEI Investments

12:00 - 1:00 pm

BIODIVERSITY CREDITS: INVESTING IN ECOSYSTEM PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION

1:00 - 2:00 pm

PANEL
Pierre-Luc Auclair, CEO, Construction Longer
Jérôme Dupras, Co-founder and CEO, Habitat
André Gravel, CEO, Gestion Solifor

MODERATOR
Sophie Robillard, Vice-President, Private Equity and Impact Investing – Business Advisory Services and Chief Sustainability Officer, Fonds de solidarité FTQ

1:00 - 2:00 pm

STRENGTHENING COMMUNITY RESILIENCE: FINANCING CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION

2:15 - 3:15 pm

PANEL
Jeffrey Cyr, CEO, Raven Indigenous Outcomes Funds
Justine Hendricks, President and CEO, Farms Credit Canada (FCC)
Alison Sunstrum, Founder and CEO, CNSRV-X Inc.

Christopher Warburton, Chief Scientific Officer, Entosystem

MODERATOR
Sarah Miller,  Research Lead, Sustainable Finance,  Canadian Climate Institute

2:15 - 3:15 pm

3:15 - 3:45 pm

NEGATIVE EMISSIONS: MOBILIZING FINANCE TO TACKLE THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY

3:45 - 4:45 pm

PANEL
Mathieu Bouchard, Vice President, Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs, Deep Sky
Laurent-David Charbit, Co-Head of Private Equity Nature and Biodiversity, Tikehau Capital
Catherine Potvin,  Emeritus Professor, Biology Department, McGill University

MODERATOR
Jason Taylor,  Founder and CEO, Climate Finance Advisors

3:45 - 4:45 pm

4:45 - 5:15 pm

SPEAKERS

Marc-André Blanchard, Executive Vice-President and Head of CDPQ Global and Global Head of Sustainability,  Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ)

More details coming soon

5:30 - 7:30 pm

8:45 - 9:00 am

SOBRIETY: DARE TO RETHINK OUR SOCIETY

9:00 - 9:30 am

SPEAKERS

Gaya Herrington,  Vice President, Sustainability Research,  Schneider Electric

More details coming soon

FROM INFINITE GROWTH TO PLANETARY BOUNDARIES: AN ECONOMY IN TRANSFORMATION

9:30 -10:30 am

PANEL

Maya Colombani,  Chief Sustainability & Human Rights Officer,  L'Oréal Canada

Stephen Liberatore, Portfolio Manager, Head of ESG/Impact, Global Fixed Income, Nuveen
Kylie Nealis, Senior Program Manager, Climate Justice, B Lab U.S. & Canada
Avra van der Zee, Chief Operating Officer, Elemental Impact

MODERATOR
Solène Hanquier, Principal Director & Head of Responsible Investment, National Bank of Canada

10:30 - 11:00 am

10:30 am -12:00 pm

INDUSTRIES AND CLIMATE: A LOW-CARBON REVOLUTION TO TRANSFORM OUR ECONOMIES

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

PANEL
Laurence Blandford,  Vice President, Strategy Consulting, Climate Change and ESG, WSP
Philippe Dunsky, President, Dunsky Energy + Climate Advisors

MODERATOR
Susan Thompson,  Managing Director, Global Head of Sustainable Finance & Advisory, TD Securities

12:00 - 1:00 pm

INSURANCE AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS: INNOVATING TO ANTICIPATE THE UNPREDICTABLE

1:00 - 2:00 pm

PANEL

Jason Clark, National Director, Climate Change, Insurance Bureau of Canada
Christelle Lim-Severe, Sustainability Practice Leader, Beneva
Stephen Nolan, Managing Director and Head of Secretariat, UNDP FC4S & SIF
Marina Severinovsky,  Head of Sustainability, Americas, Schroders

MODERATOR
Joanna Eyquem, Vice-president,  Climate Risk Institute

1:00 - 2:00 pm

CIRCULAR ECONOMY: BUILDING A WASTE-FREE WORLD

2:15-3:15 pm

2:15 - 3:15 pm

3:15 - 3:45 pm

ACCELERATING IMPACT WHILE MAINTAINING RETURNS: SCALING IMPACT FINANCE THROUGH MAINSTREAM CAPITAL MARKETS

3:45 - 4:45 pm

PANEL

Stéphanie Émond, VP & Chief Impact Officer, FinDev Canada
Jonathan Glencross, Senior Vice President, Seven Generations Capital
Laila Nordine, Senior Manager, Sustainable Finance, Banking and Capital Markets Team, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

MODERATOR
Hervé Duteil, Chief Sustainability Officer, Americas,  BNP Paribas

3:45 - 4:45 pm

4:45 - 5:15 pm

SPEAKERS

Catherine McKenna, Founder and CEO; Chair of the United Nations high-level expert group on net zero emissions commitments of non-state entities,  Climate & Nature Solutions; UN

Barbara Zvan,  President and CEO,  University Pension Plan (UPP)

MODERATOR

Delia Cristea,  Partner, Chief Operating Officer & General Counsel,  Power Sustainable

COOPERATE TO SURVIVE: REDEFINING ALLIANCES AMID ECOLOGICAL POLYCRISES

8:30 - 9:00 am

SPEAKERS

Jorge Familiar, Vice President and Treasurer, & Pension Finance Administrator, World Bank & World Bank Group

More details coming soon

8:45 - 9:00 am

CLIMATE GOVERNANCE: A COLLECTIVE RESPONSE FOR A RESILIENT FUTURE 

9:00 -10:00 am

PANEL

Catherine McKenna, Founder and CEO; Chair of the United Nations high-level expert group on net zero emissions commitments of non-state entities, Climate & Nature Solutions; UN
Dan Wicklum, Chief Executive Officer, The Transition Accelerator

More details coming soon

10:00 - 10:30 am

NORTH AMERICAN ENERGY TRANSITION: REGIONAL CHALLENGES AND GLOBAL OPPORTUNITIES

10:30 am - 11:30 pm

PANEL

John A. Cook, SVP, Portfolio manager, Team co-lead, Mackenzie Investments
Naomi Desai,  Partner, Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Adriana Mendez, Director, Sustainable Investment, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ)

Baltej Sidhu,  Sustainability and Transition Strategist, Equity Research, National Bank of Canada

MODERATOR
Christopher Cote, Executive Director, MSCI Research, MSCI

10:30 am -12:00 pm

RIGHTS OF NATURE: FINANCIAL GOVERNANCE 
IN SERVICE OF ECOSYSTEMS

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

12:45 - 1:45 pm

Presented by Maison de l'innovation sociale

May 15

5:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.