| Time (IST) | Sessions |
| 09:50- 09:55 | Lamp Lighting Ceremony |
| 09:55 – 10:10 | Launch of The ET and Futurescape Climate Leadership Report Namrata Rana, Director, Strategy and Brand, Futurescape, India Ambassador of University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership |
| 10:20 – 11:00 | Opening Dialogue: TRANSFORMATION as the key agenda for championing NEXT PHASE of business SUSTAINABILITY! Moderator: Ganesan VP, Sr Partner & Distribution Sector Leader I/SA, IBM Consulting
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| 11:00– 11:20 | Guest of Honor Address: Enrich 2030- Path towards Sustainable Economic Development
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| 11:20 – 11:35 | In-Conversation: Sustainable Future for All Moderator: Namrata Rana, Director, Strategy and Brand, Futurescape, India Ambassador of University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
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| 11:35-11:50 | Special Address: Carbon Free Energy to Decarbonize Energy and Industry Anil Kumar Chalamalasetty, Chief Executive and Managing Director, Greenko |
| 11:50- 12:30 | In Conversation: Role of Government in achieving 2030 SDG Goals; Government emphasizing Circular Carbon Economy and Action towards Climate Change and others. Government setting up standards of optimum livelihood and way forward While Global leaders paved the way for ambitious sustainable development goals to be achieved by 2030, the focus however is to magnify the impacts brought in by government, keeping in mind of the opportunities and strength, threats, and weaknesses of individual sectors, enabling to transform into a progressive, sustainable economy. The session will witness top bureaucrats from government of India to brainstorm and formulate of ideal practices, policy- implementation and transformation and way forward for enhancing ecosystem. Moderator: Om Prakash Agarwal, CEO, WRI India
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| 12:30 – 12:50 | Expert Vision: Smart Nations - Sustain, Innovate, Accelerate
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| 12:50 - 13:30 | Inaugural CEO’S Panel: What does business owe the world? – Decarbonization Agenda 2030 Moderator: Deepak Jain (Bain), Partner & APAC Lead – Advanced Manufacturing & Services Practice, Bain & Company
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| 13:30 – 14:10 | Networking and Lunch Break |
| 14:10 – 14:25 | Chief Guest Address: Building Back Better for All: Anchoring the 2030 Agenda in national development plans and strategies
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| 14:25 – 14:40 | In conversation: Embedding circularity into business strategy and operations The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Risk Report, 2022 has revealed unsettling truths about climate change and its rapid pace of degradation. One thing is clear – What we do in the next few years leading to 2030 will define the quality-oflife future generations will receive. To support the cause, the Indian government is seeking active participation from the corporate community to reduce emissions significantly using the circular economic concept. Key discussion points
Moderator: Namrata Rana, Director, Strategy and Brand, Futurescape, India Ambassador of University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
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| 14:40 – 14:55 | In-conversation: Emergent Technologies to Enable Net Zero Emissions for Industries The transition to a carbon-free environment has significantly altered how we approach projects and assess our current operating procedures in the manufacturing sector. The journey to developing more intelligent, autonomous, and zeroemission products is made possible in large part by technology. Key discussion points
Moderator: Anirban Mukherjee, MD & Partner, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) – India
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| 14:55 – 15:10 | Fire side chat: Turning goals into opportunities: Advance sustainability as a business imperative Moderator: Rajesh Parameswaran, Executive Director & Industrial Sector Leader, IBM Consulting
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| 15:10– 15:30 | Panel Discussion: Sustainable Finance: Building Collaborations and Partnerships Investing is sustainable from an economic, social, environmental and governance perspective, it can provide not only capital but also drive job creation, alleviate poverty, encourage technology transfer, and upgrade industries. The need is to develop a coherent vision for international investment, under which different investment reform processes and initiatives can be aligned and mutually supportive. It can increase peace and stability and advance climate and environmental goals, addressing some of the greatest challenges the world faces today. The fire side chat between two leaders will focus on:
Moderator: Sreejit Roy, Senior Partner: Global Application Modernization Leader ; Offering Leader - Green IT (GBS), IBM Consulting
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| 15:30 – 16:00 | Focused Session: Carbon Free Energy- every hour, every day, everywhere
Moderator: Anish De, Global Sector Head - Energy & Natural Resources, KPMG
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| 16:00 – 16:40 | SDG Moment: Messages for action: Integrated development for all: Reimagining our relationship with development SDGs are a blueprint for fighting poverty and hunger, water and waste management, innovation, confronting the climate crisis, achieving gender equality and much more, within the next eight years. At a time of great uncertainty, the SDGs show the way forward to a strong recovery, resilience, and a better future for all on a safe and healthy planet. Keeping that in mind, the session SDG Moment will try to understand from the experts: ✓ Innovations in development financing
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| 16:45 – 17:15 | Leaders’ Panel: A blueprint for scaling voluntary carbon markets Moderator: Parijat Jain, Partner, Bain and Company
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| 17:15-17:25 | The Tech Insights: Can digitalisation and AI accelerate the energy transition?
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| 17:25 – 18:00 | Country leaders dialogue: Reconciling opportunities and challenges of climate resilient development The SDGs are not being achieved. Success is held back by severe financing constraints facing the developing countries: constraints that have been gravely aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. The key to achieving the SDGs, besides preserving peace, and lowering geopolitical tensions, is having a plan to finance them. This was emphasized by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres in his briefing to the General Assembly on major priorities for 2022: “we must go into emergency mode to reform global finance” (UN, 2022). ✓ Commitment to a global response to accelerate progress on the implementation of the SDGs and to support a sustainable, inclusive, and resilient recovery across the world ✓ Zero-carbon energy and circular economy to decarbonize and slash pollution ✓ Rethinking debt sustainability ✓ Removing the barriers to increased capital market flows Moderator: Vibha Dhawan, PhD, Director General, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
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| 18:00-18:20 | Closing Remarks |
| Time | Exclusive Sessions, 28th September 2022, Wednesday |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Exclusive round table powered by IBM Consulting: Blueprint to Build Responsible Businesses: Making Enterprises more |
Purpose - Driven
Moderator: Surajit Gorai, Associate Partner & Sustainability Leader India /South Asia, IBM Consulting
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14:20 – 15:05 | Goals 2030: National Missions spear-heading the cause of Climate Control | Environment Restoration| Sustainable Habitat| Replenishing Energy Resources for a better future Moderator: Dr Umamaheshwaran Rajasekar, Chair Urban Resilience & Head Climate Centre for Cities, National Institute of Urban Affairs(NIUA)
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| 15:05 – 16:00 | Carbon Circular Economy and Carbon Credits: State Governments pledging to impact with campaigns, mass awareness and way forward Focusing the spotlight on State initiatives impacting the larger blueprint of Sustainable Development Goals 2030, the session will have state-level policymakers who are championing the cause of Carbon Circular Economy and Carbon Credits and way Forward. The session will focus on best and next practices, enlarging on the scopes and way forward. The session will be state-level policymakers forum to elaborate on best and next practices for Carbon Circular Economy, Carbon Credits and Way Forward) Moderator: Prof Utkarsh Majmudar, Member – Board of Governors, IIM Raipur
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| Start Up Pavilion |
Time: 11:15-11:45 Theme: Building a green business: Stories from sustainability startups With climate change becoming an enormous threat in today’s world, the need for businesses that make environmentally friendly products and services significantly increased. Startups are working on making the world a better place and tending to provide high-quality products from ecofriendly materials. The session will be covering stories of individual startups who continue to challenge the status quo and shift paradigms through their breakthrough ideas and perseverance in sustainability agendas.
Key discussion points
Moderator: Umang Pathak, Founder & Managing Partner, ESG Advisory Services
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| NGO Zone |
Time: 12:15-12:45 Theme: Reimaging sustainability advocacy: What next for environmental protection? |
Environmental protection is our responsibility – no other life form has degraded nature as much as we humans have done. We need to pledge lead sustained efforts to bring back plants and animals from the brink of extinction, regenerating natural water sources, carrying out mass afforestation and several other day-to-day changes. These include growing trees, more green cities, better waste management and keeping our lakes and rivers clean. The session will highlight on new technologies, innovations and tools used by the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in facilitating the sustainable and inclusive development. Key discussion points
Moderator: Niti Saxena, Principle Scientist, SM Sehgal Foundation
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