Description and context

At COP 26, financial institutions from all walks of life - banks, insurers, pension funds, asset managers - committed to ambitious, science-based targets to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 at the latest. 

In order to meet this climate finance challenge, it is therefore necessary to define precisely the transition plans of companies and financial institutions in order to mobilize the capital needed to decarbonize the economy. 

Already, companies are turning their climate ambitions into action while enabling financial actors to align their portfolios with transition trajectories compatible with a climate warming well below 2oC, face risks and seize new business opportunities that emerge. This roundtable is organized within the framework of the Low Carbon SME initiative, co-initiated by Québec Net Positif and CCG. Its objectives are to present the ACT - Assessing low Carbon Transition - approach developed jointly by ADEME and CDP and to better understand its usefulness in accelerating the transition of companies, including SMEs, and its use by financial players.

This event is presented by Desjardins, EDC and funded in part by the Government of Canada. 

Program

• Welcoming words by Florian Roulle, Finance Montréal
• Presentation of the Low Carbon SMEs initiative by Anne-Josée Laquerre, Québec Net Positif
• Moderated panel
• Q&A session with the audience
• Closing remarks by Florian Roulle, Finance Montréal

Speakers

• Anne-Josée Laquerre, Executive Director & Co-Founder, Québec Net Positif 
• Aurélia Smotriez, Responsable Climate Strategy, Crédit Agricole SA 
• Lukas Brochard, Global Associate Director - ESG Disclosure Content, CDP 
• Romain Poivet, Coordinator ACT initiative, ADEME

Modérateur

• Florian Roulle, Senior Director, Strategy and Partnerships, Head of Sustainable Finance, Finance Montréal

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The event will be in French.