Dear John,

SVC and ASBC invite you to join us tomorrow at 2pm ET Turning Up The Heat: An Economic and Business Discussion Calling for Urgent Climate Action by U.S. Financial Regulators with Steven Rothstein (Ceres), Veena Ramani (Ceres), and Carolyn Pincus (American Sustainable Business Council).

A conversation about a new report Ceres is publishing on the continued imperative for US financial regulators to address climate risks more quickly in our financial system. There will be discussion about the need for bolder and more immediate action is necessary in order to protect U.S. financial markets and the U.S. economy from the systemic risks posed by the climate crisis. One key area will be the drive for mandatory standardized climate disclosure, specifically targeting the SEC to take action. Though this push is focused on mandates for large and mid-size companies, Ceres, ASBC and SVC want to dedicate part of the conversation to how this mandatory standardized disclosure and standardized reporting methods will filter through to investor communities, consumers and small to mid-size businesses. There will be discussion on specific ways you can become involved in this work.

Speakers:

• Steven Rothstein - Founding Managing Director of the Ceres Accelerator for Sustainable Capital Markets. Ceres Accelerator aims to transform the practices and policies that govern capital markets in order to accelerate reduction of the worst financial impacts of the climate crisis and other sustainability threats. Steven’s 40 years of experience will be critical to explore the most effective strategies for the Accelerator to focus on and move capital markets towards climate sustainability. 
• Veena Ramani - Veena leads Ceres’ work on critical market levers that will help scale the transition to sustainable capital markets. This includes governance systems that companies should put in place at the corporate board level to allow for effective board sustainability oversight. She also oversees Ceres work to engage financial regulators on climate change as a systemic risk, under the umbrella of the Ceres Accelerator for Sustainable Capital Markets. Veena is the author of the 2020 Ceres report, Addressing Climate as a Systemic Risk: A call to action for US Financial Regulators, which makes the case that climate change poses systemic risk to US financial markets, and outlines over 50 action steps that financial market regulators can take to address this risk.
• Carolyn Pincus - Previous to joining American Sustainable Business Council, Carolyn Pincus was a small business owner with fifteen years in the food and beverage industry. She holds an MBA in Sustainability with a focus on Circular Economy from Bard College, a Certificate in Global Affairs from NYU-SCPS and a BFA from Fordham University/Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, with a minor in Political Science. She also has six years’ experience working for non-profits, in the areas of education, arts, community development and social justice. She also co-chairs the Bard Graduate Alumni DEI committee and volunteers for the National Women’s Liberation.

In partnership with JumpScale, The Accountkeepers, Bromberger Law, SustainVC, GoodCarts, Impact Makers, Trillium Asset Management, Perlman & Perlman, Barclays, Junxion, and Hanson Bridgett.