This session aims to explore how data-driven predictive capabilities can transform ways to anticipate, design, and build infrastructure resilience. Specialists will discuss the acceleration of what’s necessary and possible using cutting-edge technologies to address evolving challenges.

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Artificial intelligence is one of the defining trends of the coming decades. However, its growing electricity consumption raises several challenges. Deloitte has estimated the range of future global electricity demand by data centers and identified the key levers to limit their environmental footprint. Industry leaders discuss how AI can help align with climate goals and meaningful steps organizations and policymakers can start implementing today.

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This panel discussion will explore the intersection of climate change and health care. Learn how hospital systems around the world are combatting the threats of climate change, addressing the impact on patient care, and how technology is helping health systems drive sustainable and resilient health care through an innovative platform.

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This panel, grounded in Deloitte Global’s upcoming report “Turning point: Feeding the world sustainably,” is designed to examine impacts on food security, costs of inaction, and economic opportunity to help advance climate and nature action. Convening distinguished leaders from government, the private sector and the food industry, the discussion will address the interdependencies within food systems, highlight the economic case for initiatives at the nature-climate nexus, and explore the potential for innovation and nature-based solutions. Outcomes will illustrate the impact of innovative approaches on feeding the global population while driving positive climate and nature impacts.

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The global energy transition is a complex challenge, yet it can also be an opportunity to reshape our energy systems and forge a path toward a more sustainable future. How can energy, resources and industrial companies effectively scale their decarbonization initiatives and recognize value in the process to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050?

This session will explore:

• Evaluating challenges of decarbonization and addressing complex decisions energy companies may face;
• Understanding the range of—and interconnections between—decarbonization solutions; and Collaboration and coordinated action in risk mitigation to effectively scale solutions.

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The landscape of reporting on climate and sustainability is evolving rapidly. To effectively navigate through this, organizations should develop a structured and intentional implementation plan, while contemplating various regulatory requirements, such as the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the US Security Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Climate-Disclosure Rule, alongside the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) standards. Join this broadcasted fireside chat for a discussion on how the ISSB standards serve as an important baseline for focusing on key sustainability matters. The conversation will explore:

• How early understanding of the role of standards in preparing for varying global sustainability regulation, including interoperability considerations, can help optimize for efficiency and preparedness for assurance;
• The development of a structured implementation plan, considering scoping impacts, interoperability of regulations and standards, and a focus on value and risk drivers;
• How organizations can enhance the effectiveness of their reporting efforts under the ISSB standards and shift their focus from a strict compliance mindset to a broader perspective that emphasizes the drivers of value and risk and embraces the opportunities presented by sustainable practice.

By incorporating these concepts into work plans and leveraging the ISSB standards as a baseline, organizations can help drive meaningful change and contribute to a more sustainable future.

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Over the next two decades, trillions of US dollars are forecasted to be spent on infrastructure. It's an enormous opportunity to improve civic life—but the question is how to develop new innovative, sustainable, and equitable approaches to designing urban spaces that positively impact the well-being of citizens. A wide range of issues should be considered as part of infrastructure solution, including renewable generation, decarbonization, grid resilience, transportation, electrification, climate change impacts, modernizing urban environments—and more. In this panel, leaders in government, infrastructure, and sustainable development will discuss what it will take to ensure the urban spaces of the future are resilient, equitable and sustainable for the people who live there.

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As COP29 enters its final days, join this timely discussion as Deloitte and industry leaders reflect on some of the outcomes and takeaways. How are leading boards building on the momentum around ambitions to reduce emissions, phasing out fossil fuels, and achieving a net-zero carbon footprint? What role can institutional investors play to drive meaningful change?

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