The presenters represent organizations with different approaches to analyze and present indicators, benchmarks or certification thresholds, The records of companies on environment, natural resources, climate, social and other areas are made transparent and available to the public, enabling people to make informed decisions on purchases and investments in line with their values. This allows people to make informed choices which in turn motivates companies to improve their environmental performance or lose customers and investors. Presenters will share the impact their measures are having on company performance.

AGENDA

12:55 PM Sign in to meeting 

1:00 PM Welcome. The Sustainable & Resilient Resources Roundtable

1:10 PM: Using Big Data Technology to Measure Performance and Rank over 50,000 Companies Around the World. Cynthia Figge, President and CEO, CSRHUB https://www.csrhub.com

1:25 PM Questions from respondent and participants . 

1:35 PM Green Business Network ® Certification, Tailored to Small-Mid-sized Companies, Fran Teplitz, Executive Co-Director, Green America https://www.greenamerica.org/gbn

1:50 PM Questions from respondent and participants. 

2:00 PM Transformative Benchmarks Comparing Companies’ Performance on the Sustainable Development Goals -SDGs, Richard Hardy Research Director, World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA)  https://www.worldbenchmarkingalliance.org

2::15 PM Questions from respondent and participants.

2:25 PM Promoting Emergence of a Sustainable, Green, Ethical & Just Economy Worldwide, Hazel Henderson, Ethical Markets, https://www.ethicalmarkets.com

2:40 PM Questions from respondent and participants.

2:50 PM Open Discussion Among Presenters and respondents

3:05 PM Announcements and Next Steps

3:15 PM Adjourn

Join the Climate Leaders Meeting to exchange resources and inspiration with others who are also taking action to create a vibrant and healthy future. All are welcome. 

This is a free monthly event hosted by Minerva Ventures.

Learn how business can thrive, even as a changing climate disrupts markets, infrastructure, operations, access and supply chains.

• Discover from industry experts how to prepare for the impact of disasters and long-term disruption caused by a rapidly changing climate.

• What tools are leading companies using for anticipating risk and contending with consequences?

• From the points of view of entrepreneurs, finance, insurance and established companies, what are the considerations for planning and for taking action to prevent harm and to thrive under more difficult operating conditions?

MODERATOR

Marianna Grossman, Senior Consultant and Advisor on Sustainability, USAsia Venture Partners

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Gopal Erinjippurath, CTO & Head of Product, Sust Global

Hamed Farhadi, Managing Director, Bank of the West

Raghuveer Vinukollu, Ph.D., SVP (Climate Solutions & Solutions Lead), Munich Reinsurance America

Masayuki Kimura, COO, Deloitte Tohmatsu Venture Support

This workshop is designed to help you discern and articulate your purpose
and expand your sense of possibilities and potential.

About this Event 
We are in tumultuous times. What can we do now to maintain our resilience and shape a better future for all people and for the planet and its systems of which we are a part?

This short workshop will take us on an imaginative and intuitive journey from the future we have helped create, back to the present we inhabit now. Are we being sufficiently audacious and confident in our ability to have our work make a difference? What guidance can we access about our mission and purpose going forward? Are there new partners with whom to collaborate? New audiences or allies to inspire and engage?

Our goal is to unearth new capacities, spark our initiative accelerate our work, and embolden us to deepen our impact. The stakes are so high. Together we can be instrumental in writing a new chapter for humanity.

Dates and times: The workshop is offered two times to allow for people in different time zones to participate.

Saturday March 13, 4:30pm PT – 6:30pm PST (GMT – 8)
7:30 – 9:30 pm New York - 6am+day Chennai - 7:30am+day Jakarta - 9:30am+day Tokyo - 11:30am+day Sydney

Or Sunday March 14, 9:00 – 11:00 am Los Angeles PDT (GMT – 7)

12noon New York – 5pm London – 6pm Geneva/Budapest – 8pm Nairobi - 10:30pm Chennai

 You are welcome to participate either day.

 Registration is free.

 Donations are invited to:

The Baobab Learning Center  https://www.baobablearning.org

The Rocky Mountain Institute   https://rmi.org

Or the Charity of your choice
Register free for either March 13 4:30 pm PT or March 14, 9AM PT at 

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/remembering-the-future-workshop-tickets-142037141915\
A zoom link and workshop outline will be provided to all who register

 Facilitators: Marianna Grossman and David Berry (bios here)

 Questions?
Contact: Marianna Grossman +1-650-520 -7003    mgrossman@minervaventures.com 

Room 380-380Y, Stanford University, Open to Graduate and Undergraduate Students – Auditors Welcome

Minerva’s Marianna Grossman will talk on “Annihilation or Climate Restoration. Building a Resilient Future.” on Oct. 9, joined by Prof. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mark Jacobson of Stanford Univ.

The seminar series are organized by Dr. Leslie Field, CEO of Ice911 and will highlight some of the very promising work and suggest ways to approach the challenge of our times. The recurring theme is, “It’s time to solve this.” The rest of the series are as follows:

10/16/18 Bi-Polar Observations in a Changing Climate. Doug Stoup, Ice Axe Expeditions 10/23/18 Ocean-Inspired Entrepreneurs. Dr. David Smernoff and Dr. Rocco Mancinelli, HelioBioSys, Dr. Brent Constantz, Blue Planet and Dr. Brian von Herzen, Climate Foundation

10/30/18 Workshop on Solving “Impossible” Problems in Climate. Kimberly Wiefling, MS

11/06/18 Sustainable Building; NASA Sustainability Base. Dr. Steven Zornetzer, NASA Ames (Retired)

11/13/18 Electrons and Aerostructures Brian Kooiman, MS, OhmConnect and Dr. Kenny Cheung, NASA

11/27/18 Entrepreneurship and EVs. Marc Tarpenning and Martin Eberhard, Tesla Co-Founders

12/04/18 Climate Change – It’s Time to Solve This. Dr. Leslie Field, Stanford, Ice911, SmallTech