Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, World Benchmarking Alliance, and Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment are pleased to invite you to a Climate Week NYC event on respecting human rights in the race to ramp up renewable energy investment and production.

How do we ensure our future energy system is built on a foundation of trust, community empowerment and respect for rights by companies and governments? This is the question we will discuss during this event, with perspectives from civil society, business and government.

The conversation will unpack civil society expectations and the complementarity of roles of governments, investors and companies, including:

• Governments integrating just transition principles into climate policies and Nationally Determined Contributions, and creating enabling conditions for the fast deployment of rights-respecting renewable energy projects through supporting policies and public procurement requirements, and
• Companies strengthening their human rights policies and practices, and investors using engagement to advance human rights in their investments and net zero strategies.

Due to limited space, registrations are now closed.  Participants have now received a confirmation email of their attendance – if you have not received an email this is because there is no further space available. Thank you for understanding.

Please note: Confirmation by organisers required to attend. The Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice (FFCSJ) requires all guests to be registered in advance and to show photo ID in order to be admitted to the building. Unregistered guests will not be permitted entry to the building.

Moderator: Hansika Agrawal, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment

Introduction by WBA & BHRRC

Panel discussion:

• Caroline Rees, President and Co-Founder, Shift
• Rachel McEwen, Chief Sustainability Officer, SSE
• Riona Bowhay, Senior Macro Stewardship Analyst, Aviva Investors
• Catherine Goldberg, Senior Climate Policy Advisor, U.S. Department of State
• Mark Robinson, Executive Director, EITI
• Representatives from US & Colombian governments.