What to expect from the inaugural Climate Week Zurich

About this episode

This episode previews the inaugural Climate Week Zurich, focusing on the city's plans to convene various stakeholders to scale climate action.

Switzerland's largest city is hosting its first-ever Climate Week, and All Things Sustainable is the official podcast. In this episode, we preview what to expect from the inaugural Climate Week Zurich May 4-9. Zurich is a global banking and financial hub, and Climate Week Zurich Managing Director Johannes Pokorny explains how the city plans to convene fin ancial institutions, business leaders, policymaker s and the pu blic across hundreds of events to scale climate action . "At Climate Week Zurich ... we're not talking too much about what should be happening in 20 years, but really more about what should happen now," Johannes says. Nic Meyer , Chair of the Climate Week Zurich board, tells us how the gathering is taking inspiration from Climate Week events gaining momentum around the world. He says Climate Week Zurich will focus on building the business case for sustainability. "If you're going to build change, you ultimately need to convince the CFO and the board and the stockholders, the shareholders, that there's a dollar behind this ," Nic says . "Go vernments alone can't do this. So businesses have to step up ." S&P Global Energy is a founding partner and sponsor of the…

People in this episode

Host: S&P Global

Guests: Johannes Pokorny, Nic Meyer

Topics covered

• climate action
• sustainability
• business case
• financial institutions
• policy making

Keywords

• Climate Week Zurich
• sustainability
• financial institutions
• climate action
• business leaders

Sponsors

S&P Global

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Zurich

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