HEC Climate Day 2024: Navigating the path to Net Zero [Best of]

The third edition of the HEC Climate Day organized by the S&O Climate & Earth Center, on the HEC campus took place on May 22, 2024. The objective of the HEC Climate Day is to bring together HEC students, researchers, experts, external guests from partner companies, as well as alumni, and staff members to discuss strategic orientations, potential solutions, and ongoing achievements to respond to these challenges.
For this 3rd edition, the keynote speaker from the United Nations and the African Risk Capacity (ARC) Group, Ibrahima Cheikh DIONG started the day with a vibrant lecture highlighting the critical role of finance in addressing climate risks and building resilience.
Then, three sessions was held with very valuable speakers:
- Pascale Albert-Lebrun, Joumana M. Asso, Claire Eschalier, Stéphanie Mouen for focusing on scaling up international climate finance.
- Eleonore Bedel, Maud Caillaux, Antoine Laurent for discussing the need to mobilize private savings towards the low-carbon transition.
- Florence Bulté, Fabien Chêne, David Grall, and Michele Lacroix for inspiring us on how to co-create sustainability across the value chain.
This event was made possible thanks to the support of CMA CGM, the FII Institute and Nexans.
In order of appearance in the video:
- Eloic Peyrache, Dean of HEC Paris
- Ibrahima Cheikh Diong, United Nations Assistant Secretary General (ASG) and Director General of African Risk Capacity (ARC) Group
- Joumana Asso, Founder and Managing Director (Clima Capital Partners)
- Pascale Albert-Lebrun, Deputy CEO (Eranove Group)
- Maud Caillaux, CEO (Green-Got)
- David Grall, VP Sustainability & Corporate Transformation (Nexans Group)
- Michele Lacroix, Group Head of Sustainability (SCOR)
- Leonie Hoffmann, HEC Graduate
Discover more about the HEC Climate Day: www.hec.edu/en/faculty-resear...
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