Sustainable1 Summit 2025

What are the financial implications of global energy transition?
How do organizations align internally on their climate strategy to achieve their goals while navigating regional and global targets and reporting requirements?
How does this impact the shareholder expectations?

What actions are being taken to identify and mitigate risks associated with the transition? What are the roadblocks to scaling this transition?
How does the timeline for development and financing align with goals and tactical implementation?

The transition to a net-zero, nature-positive economy offers market opportunities for all segments of the economy. What are the risks and opportunities that different market segments face? During the Sustainable1 Summit, we invite senior leaders across sustainable banking, corporate sectors, and the investment community to participate in our exclusive Strategic Forums. These sessions are designed to deep dive the critical topics, foster best practices, drive market-based solutions, and provide unparalleled peer-to-peer networking.

Corporate Leaders Forum The Corporate Energy Transition Triangle – Markets, Risks and Regulations.

This strategic forum provides the opportunity for participants to network with industry peers and practitioners to discuss topical considerations in clean energy, carbon markets, and climate resilience, as well as the requirement for stakeholder communication and reporting. Key discussion points will include:

• What are the opportunities in clean energy and carbon markets?
• What market supports and financial levers do corporates need to fulfill decarbonization strategies and meet net zero targets?
• What approaches are available to companies seeking to understand and manage physical climate and nature risks across value chains?
• What are the risks and challenges in sustainability communication and reporting, from disconnected reporting standards to scope 3 requirements?

• Best practices, credibility and integrity in transition finance
• Outcome linked pathways in high impact sectors
• Navigating possible vs. likely future scenarios

• How carbon-intensive industries are evolving
• Where the pain points in net zero target planning are
• How the markets address inconsistencies in policies, shareholder expectations, and public sentiment

How can climate transition planning go beyond setting net zero targets to address the multiple transition activities that drive change effectively and efficiently to more gauge a company’s progress toward achieving GHG emission reduction targets? Join S&P Global Ratings for an interactive session to understand the new Ratings qualitative assessment, which features the award-winning Shades of Green scale. This session will equip investors with the tools to identify companies with robust transition plans and ensure resilient business models in the face of a global shift towards low carbon and climate-resilient economies.

As climate change increasingly impacts natural capital, the challenge to provide critical data to effectively assess and mitigate climate-related risks becomes more important. Investors see an emerging need to understand how physical risks associated with climate change will interact with nature, particularly through effects on natural capital required to support economic growth. Panelists will explore the projected costs of delaying the alignment of physical risk and nature risk and address market solutions.

S&P Global estimates $60 Trillion will be required in clean energy supply and transmission to meet the demands of a net zero energy sector. This creates a set of opportunities to invest in clean energy and cleantech and also presents both challenges and opportunities related to AI. As AI is both a source of new energy demand and a solution to maximize investments, the energy outlook will shift. What is the appropriate energy mix to meet this surging demand?

While individual companies set emission reduction and net zero targets, these targets rely heavily on the decarbonization goals of the wider global economy. How do corporates and investors address their own targets versus global targets, and what continued role do public-private partnerships play in pushing towards cooperative decarbonization? Danny Alexander will discuss how HSBC is partnering with governments, multilateral development banks and companies, and unpack the financial levers used within each of these relationships.

This year promises to be a pivotal year for businesses, banks, and investors seeking opportunities in the energy transition, climate resilience, and innovation to achieve sustainability goals, from AI to clean energy technologies.

S&P Global predicts $60 Trillion in energy investment opportunities under global net zero investment scenarios through 2050. During this same period, there is also a projected $25 Trillion in cumulative financial impact on the world’s largest companies due to changing climate exposure.

• AI
• standard climate disclosures in FY2025
• public/private partnerships

The Sustainability Yearbook distinguishes companies within their industries that have each demonstrated strengths in corporate sustainability.

In the face of climate, environmental and economic challenges, companies recognized in the Sustainability Yearbook have displayed dedication and resilience and embraced sustainability as a core principle of their current operations and forward-looking strategies. Their commitment to transparency, accountability, and innovation is vital in driving change and success.

Keppel Corporation, which was include in this year's publication, will accept their recognition for this achievement.