When: June 4-5, 2025
Registration: Register here. Complimentary for Future 500 members. Registration price will increase on April 30th.
Who: Executives from Future 500’s Corporate Affinity Network (CAN) and other select corporate sustainability leaders and advocates.
What: Future 500 has conducted this intimate working group for over ten years. Our discussions are confidential, facilitated under the Chatham House Rule, and designed to foster constructive engagement between companies and advocates to illuminate important issue trends and best practices that inform business strategy and competitiveness on sustainability.
Participants will join in the following small-group, Chatham House Rule sessions:
Climate Philanthropy's Evolution: Where is It Headed? What have Funders Learned? And What Does That Mean for Business?Mijo Vodopić, Senior Program Officer for Climate Solutions at the MacArthur Foundation, will share his insights from 16 years of grantmaking to civil society at one of the country’s most established and strategic climate protection funders. He'll share what funding strategies he has found most effective, how funders are adapting to a rapidly changing geopolitical world, and how that can help inform business planning
The Rights of Nature: Creating frameworks to align people and planetWe live in a world governed by laws regulating the marketplace while seeking to minimize the harm business can impose on nature. The frame seems to pit jobs vs. the environment, people vs. trees, and fishermen vs. fish. But is this a false, binary choice? How can we ensure that humans and nature flourish together? In this session, we will hear from Grant Wilson, Executive Director of the Earth Law Center, an innovative group working to "align our laws with Nature’s laws." They represent and defend nature worldwide, co-drafting legal instruments that recognize the rights of nature. Grant will share these and other evolutions in environmental policymaking, as well as his priorities and view of the future.
In Trump 2.0, what's next in Investor engagementWith the Trump Administration rolling back Federal regulation of climate, DEI, and renewable energy, and protections for environmental justice communities, how is the role of investor engagement shifting both in the U.S. and abroad.