The Financial Professional’s Role in Carbon Accounting and Climate Risk Management

Speaker: Mike Wallace, Strategic Advisor, PersefoniAI (Former Chief Decarbonization Officer, Persefoni; Partner, ERM; N American Head, Global Reporting Initiative) will discuss:

Intro – Evolution of the Sustainability and Carbon Accounting Field
Regulatory Developments
Standards Developments
Market Developments

Resources

Open Q&A

Mike Wallace is an internationally recognized expert with nearly 30 years of experience in sustainability, ESG reporting/compliance, and managing social and human capital issues. He formerly served as the Chief Decarbonization Officer at Persefoni, a carbon accounting technology company, where he oversaw the  strategic partnerships to helped with the integration and application of Persefoni’s climate accounting and management platform (CMAP). Prior to joining Persefoni, Wallace was a partner at the global sustainability consultancy, ERM where he counseled clients on corporate responsibility and sustainability solutions and helped shape several strategic partnerships for ERM. In that role, Wallace also served as the Interim Executive Director for the Social & Human Capital Coalition, a multi-stakeholder project of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). His work included overseeing the establishment of the overall governance structure, technical council and global network that drove the creation of the Social & Human Capital Protocol, which was officially launched at GreenBiz 2019 by the founders WBCSD, Nasdaq, and Microsoft. Prior to ERM, Wallace was a director for the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), where he worked on foundational initiatives such as the International Integrated Reporting Council (IRRC), the European Commission proposal on corporate ESG reporting, and the UN Sustainable Stock Exchange Initiative (SSEi) on ESG listing guidance.
 

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