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Upcoming Events
World Water Week
On the Road to Corporate Water Reporting: Founders Business Seminar 2010
September 8, 2010 | Stockholm, Sweden
Businesses are increasingly looking into their use of water and how they reuse or dispose of it. At the same time, the United Nations CEO Water Mandate has published a transparency framework for water reporting, and has assessed the rigor of this reporting for multiple sectors. Needless to say, the pressure is on to report. But what companies report on and how they measure it is a debate that is just starting.
Brooke Barton, Ceres' senior manager of the Corporate Accountability Program, will join in on a panel discussion exploring how companies already report their water use and how to address current challenges on reporting sustainable water management. For more information or to register, click here.
Climate Leaders Webinar Series: Practical Approaches to Implementing the Ceres Roadmap for Sustainability 
September 14, 2010 | Online, from 1 to 2 p.m. EDT
Earlier this year, Ceres released its Roadmap for Sustainability, calling for improvements in corporate governance, stakeholder engagement, disclosure, and key performance metrics. Among the improvements, the report calls for leading companies to reduce GHG emissions by 25 percent from 2005 to 2020 and improve energy efficiency by at least 50 percent.
This webinar will feature a representative from Ceres to give an overview of the Roadmap and share feedback it has received from various corporations. The webinar will then feature a representative from EMC Corporation, a Climate Leaders Partner, who will discuss how the company is using the Roadmap and identifying and implementing concrete steps to reduce its own GHG emissions. For more information or to register, click here.
Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting 2010
Market-Based Solutions for Protecting the Environment
September 22, 2010 | New York, NY
Earth’s natural infrastructure provides truly essential services on which life depends. When human activity degrades ecosystems, human societies must rely on their own imperfect and costly substitutes for essentials such as clean water, breathable air, and healthy food. People in the poorest places are the ones least able to make such substitutions, and thus the most dependent on ecosystem services.
Mindy Lubber, president of Ceres, will introduce innovations to ensure the provision of ecosystem services by inducing investment in the environment. This panel will explore the most inventive and effective market-based solutions for protecting the environment. For more information or to register, click here.
 Carbon TradeEx America Conference
Carbon Risk: Implications for Institutional Investors
September 29, 2010 | Chicago, IL
Implications for Institutional Investors Climate legislation and
climate risk are continuously on the forefront of policymaking, and recent guidance by the SEC is likely to result in more disclosure on
climate exposure of listed companies. However, is this already affecting
investor decisions? Christopher Davis, director of investor programs at Ceres, along with other panelists, will explore in this session the impact of these trends on
companies' relationships with shareholders as well as looking at the
changes that institutional investors are making to their portfolio
decisions. For more information or to register, click here.
 American Bar Association
Section of Environment, Energy & Resources Law Summit
Finding Legal Opportunities in the Green Energy Economy: Where's the Work?
September 30, 2010 | New Orleans, LA
Concerns about climate change, energy security, and economic recovery
are driving unprecedented levels of government and private investment
in the clean energy sector. Billions of government and private dollars are flowing into a variety
of green infrastructure projects such as wind farms, solar power arrays,
and clean tech manufacturing plants. The development and operation of
these new projects and facilities raise numerous legal issues, ranging
from traditional environmental work, such as siting approval,
environmental impact review, and environmental permitting, to work in
other areas, such as land acquisition, negotiating financing
transactions, power purchase and supply agreements, and the generation
and sale of carbon credits.
Moderated by Ceres's Director of Investor Programs Christopher Davis, this session will focus on how and where
the rapidly developing new energy economy is creating demand for legal
services and new opportunities for environmental, energy, and resources
lawyers. Davis had a distinguished career as an
environmental lawyer, with almost 30 years of private practice experience.
For more information or to register, click here.
 American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) & Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA) Sustainability Workshop
New Imperatives for Leadership: Ceres Roadmap to a Sustainable Corporation
 September 30, 2010 | New York, NY
Earlier this year, Ceres released its Roadmap for Sustainability,
calling for improvements in corporate governance, stakeholder
engagement, disclosure, and key performance metrics.
In this AICPA/CICA Sustainability Workshop, Ceres' Senior Director of Corporate Programs Andrea Moffat will present a session for CFOs on what it means to be a sustainable corporation. This session will take an in-depth look at why sustainable management standards are important to the health of a company and how business leaders are succeeding or meeting with challenges along the way. For more information or to register, click here.
Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) PRI Public Policy Network – Looking at RI from a policy maker’s perspective
October 6, 2010 | San Francisco, CA
Mindy Lubber, president of Ceres, will sit on panel discussion about responsible investment (RI) as viewed from the policy sphere. What are leading governments doing to support RI and the PRI? What are the priorities for the PRI Public Policy Network over the next year? How can governments play a stronger role in supporting the development of RI? This session will also include a call to sign on to an international investor statement for climate change policy ahead of the COP16 conference in Cancun. For more information or to register, click here.
Global Conference for Social Change
Turning Social Responsibility into Social Action
November 18-19, 2010 | United Nations | New York, NY
Mindy Lubber, president of Ceres, will be honored as one of the World's Top Leaders of Change by the Foundation for Social Change and the United Nations Office of Partnerships. She and other Leaders of Change will discuss their experiences on helping organizations to understand how social action programs can outperform traditional corporate social responsibility in delivering triple bottom line returns for social, environmental and financial impact. For more information or to register, click here.
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