This one-day seminar focuses on environmental, social and governance (ESG) compliance for both public and private energy companies. Driven by divestment movements from investors, escalating costs for environmental compliance, and climate change risk threatening more disruption in their operations and supply chains, there is growing demand for effective sustainability disclosure for energy and automobile companies. Legislative and regulatory pressure, investor pressure, economic and financial impacts of climate change are focusing attention on this rising corporate financial issue, impacting multiple operations of energy companies. In effect, both financial and sustainability materiality are now one and the same as investors are now asking these questions to be disclosed and remediated.
The Volkswagen emissions scandal, the BP Oil Spill, and the Mitsubishi emissions problem are not the only problems for an industry where risk management is a core competency particularly when complying with many and more stringent environmental rules and regulations. These are the corporate risks to manage in this new economic environment impacting:  Stock market prices  Reputational Risk  Materiality  Value Loss  Market Share Loss  Trust Lost for Years  Risk Management  Supply Chain Issues  Fossil Fuel Divestment  Shareholder activism on climate change and sustainability issues.  Proxy issues moving companies to improve their financial performance  Making the business case for incorporating sustainability in strategic decision making  Assessing climate induced risks and opportunities for the firm
Peter C. Fusaro wrote the New York Times best seller “What Went Wrong at Enron” and is an international expert on sustainable finance, carbon markets and renewable energy, His knowledge of the energy industry goes back almost 5 decades as both a policy maker at the US Department of Energy in Washington DC and as a senior executive at a multinational oil company and at an original equipment manufacturer. Peter founded and runs the Wall Street green Summit, the oldest sustainable finance event in North America.
Peter has been very involved in ESG (Environmental, Social Governance) and impact investing for the past decade. Formerly, he was a member of trading and markets committee of the voluntary Chicago Climate Exchange and on the board of Carbon Trade Exchange in the UK and Australia. Peter was also involved in implementation of AB32, California’s Climate Change law, and Clean Development Mechanism projects under the Kyoto Protocol. Through PGS and other entities such as the Swiss Finance Institute in Geneva, he has taught over 1,000 people on carbon markets and carbon finance. Today, carbon markets are in an upsurge with over 65 mandatory markets as well as voluntary markets throughout the world. Peter offers unique insights into their market development and maturation.
Peter has been on the Advisory Board’s of the University of Michigan Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise and Bard College’s MBA in Sustainability. He was an adjunct professor at Columbia University and developed and taught a popular renewable energy project finance course. He is a graduate of Tufts University with an MA and Carnegie-Mellon University with a BA.
This live group seminar is eligible for 7.0 CPE credits. Be aware that state boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. As of January 1, 2002, sponsored learning activities are measured by program length, with one 50-minute period equal to one CPE credit. One-half CPE credit increments (equal to 25 minutes) are permitted after the first credit has been earned in a given learning activity. You may want to verify that the state board from which your participants will be receiving credit accept one-half credits.
This PGS seminar is oriented toward energy company executives from both the financial and operations part of the business including oil & gas companies, electric power, and renewable energy companies as well as automobile manufacturers and their supply chain. Chief financial officers and their staff, attorneys, compliance officers, sustainability managers, procurement staff, corporate planners, and supply chain managers of energy companies as well as operational personnel would benefit from attending this seminar.
There are no prerequisites for this seminar.
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