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Trellis Impact 25 is where professionals accelerate solutions for our planet’s biggest challenges. Through curated sessions and expert-led discussions, you’ll gain actionable insights on decarbonization, nature regeneration, and sustainable finance.
Learn how to future-proof your organization with cutting-edge climate technologies at VERGE, explore strategies to protect and restore ecosystems at Bloom, and harness the power of capital for a clean economy at GreenFin. Connect with industry leaders, NGOs, and solution providers to turn ideas into action.
Where Climate Meets Technology
Where Biodiversity Meets the Bottom Line
Where Capital Powers the Clean Economy
VERGE Program Tracks
The VERGE program is organized by key markets where corporate sustainability and climate professionals are working to decarbonize. Tracks provide a structured approach to explore specific sectors crucial for achieving decarbonization. View Sessions
Carbon Accounting, Removal and Credits
Strategies in carbon accounting, removal, and crediting to support carbon markets and achieve net-zero operations. Session topics include:
- Emission Accounting & Disclosures: Navigating accounting and reporting frameworks to drive decarbonization.
- Voluntary and Compliance Carbon Credit Markets: Understanding current and future trends.
- Advances in Nature-Based and Engineered Solutions: Exploring nature- and technology-based solutions to reduce and remove carbon from our atmosphere.
- Investment Strategies: Identifying opportunities and challenges for financial investment into market-based climate solutions.
Deploying Clean Energy
Latest opportunities and trends to bring clean energy to operations efficiently and profitably. Session topics include:
- Emerging Technologies: The future of firm, clean power, including geothermal and nuclear, as well as how innovations in AI are changing the game for energy
- Distributed Energy Resources: Catalyzing on-site resource adoption to provide additional resilience and price certainty
- Repowering Buildings: Transforming the energy powering real estate portfolios through energy efficiency, smart building technologies and clean energy resource.
- Data Centers & AI: Opportunities to address the growing energy and water demands spurred forward by AI and data centers.
Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA)
VERGE is the home to CEBA’s Fall summit, bringing 500 global energy leaders to San Jose. CEBA sessions offer a deep dive on what corporate energy buyers face, including:
- Renewable Procurements: Navigating clean energy procurements options to ensure operations maintain reliable, affordable and sustainable energy amidst headwinds.
- Policy Progress for Clean Energy: The critical role of state and federal clean energy policies in renewable project scalability and how to respond to the changing policy environment.
- Utility Collaboration: How are organizations working with utilities to meet power needs and capitalize on grid enhancing technologies.
- Energy Resilience: Strategies for organizations to increase energy resilience and support initiatives to increase grid reliability.
Decarbonizing Heavy Industry
Technologies and contract models enabling industrial decarbonization, both within operations and for suppliers. Session topics include:
- Electrification and Hydrogen: The state of play of emerging technologies to enable cleaner industrial processes, including hydrogen and electrification.
- Cement and Steel: Opportunities to signaling demand for new, low-carbon materials to accelerate the market demand for steel and cement.
- Collaborations: Emerging agreements and industry groups to aggregate demand for low-carbon materials.
Next-Gen Transport
How organizations are decarbonizing transportation emissions and deploying solutions at scale. Session topics include:
- Road Vehicles: Ensuring fleets, from heavy to light duty, are leveraging best strategies to reduce carbon and maintain a consistent fuel / electricity resource.
- Autonomous Vehicles: Uncovering latest trends in autonomous vehicles to reduce costs and streamline operations.
- Sustainable Aviation: Strategies for organization to reduce emissions associated with flying.
- Maritime Logistics: The latest in strategies to decarbonize maritime shipping.
Startups & Innovation
Accelerating the commercialization of early-stage climate technologies. Session topics include:
- Corporate-Startup Partnerships: How corporations can harness startup innovation and talent to accelerate decarbonization goals.
- Growth-Stage Technology: Strategies to accelerate the deployment of novel, climate-related infrastructure.
- Investment: Key trends and financial tools shaping the climate capital stack.
- Emerging Technologies: Next-generation early-stage startups driving innovation across climate tech sectors.
Bloom Program Tracks
The Bloom program helps businesses and financial institutions protect and restore nature through four key pathways: integrating nature into business strategy, leveraging technology and data to manage risks and impacts, implementing biodiversity projects in farms, forests, and watersheds, and developing innovative models for nature finance. View Sessions
Nature-Positive Strategy
Advancing corporate strategies to halt and reverse biodiversity loss while driving business value. Session topics include:
- Integrating Biodiversity into Business Strategy: Incorporating nature targets into existing sustainability structures and identifying business models with strong returns on investment.
- Nature-Related Disclosure and Regulation: Implementing policy and frameworks for nature-related reporting, risk assessments, and compliance.
- Building Internal Capacity: Upskilling cross-functional teams, executives, boards and investors on nature-related risks, opportunities, and regulatory requirements to embed biodiversity into corporate decision-making.
Nature Tech & Data
Equipping sustainability professionals with advanced tools and data analytics to effectively monitor, manage, and enhance biodiversity within business operations and supply chains. Session topics include:
- Emerging Tools, Technologies and Frameworks: Leading innovations that ensure biodiversity initiatives deliver desired outcomes and enable comparability and benchmarking across projects.
- Managing Nature Data and Risks: Identifying the best tools and practices for collecting, analyzing, and reporting nature-related data and managing risks.
- Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) Integration: Incorporating Indigenous knowledge systems into modern practices to enrich biodiversity understanding and management.
Regenerative Agriculture & Forests
Developing and implementing initiatives that restore and sustain ecosystems, build supply chain resilience, and actively engage local stakeholders. Session topics include:
- Regenerative Agriculture: Transforming agricultural supply chains to rebuild soil health, support biodiversity, and sequester carbon while maximizing economic returns.
- Forests: Integrating sustainable forest practices into supply chains to prevent deforestation, improve forest management, and promote biodiversity.
- Water: Adopting integrated water stewardship across agriculture and forestry to optimize water use, improve water quality, and strengthen ecosystem health.
- Collaborating with Suppliers and Local Communities: Forging partnerships with farmers, forest managers, and community stakeholders to drive equitable and sustainable practices.
Nature Finance
Financial mechanisms, investments and policies that enable a nature-positive economy. Session topics include:
- Natural Capital: Mobilizing private capital, developing innovative financial instruments, valuing natural assets, and leveraging public-private partnerships to invest in nature-positive solutions.
- Embedding Nature in Financial Systems: Integrating nature-related risks into financial assessments and climate transition planning.
- Carbon and Ecosystem Service Markets: Aligning economic incentives with positive environmental outcomes. Includes carbon credits, biodiversity credits, and water credits.
GreenFin Program Tracks
The GreenFin program is organized around key financial mechanisms and strategies that enable the transition to a low-carbon economy. Tracks provide a structured approach to explore how capital markets, corporate finance, and investment professionals are accelerating funding for climate solutions and managing climate-related risks. View Sessions
Transition Planning & Finance
Strategies, tools and evolving best practices to plan for and mobilize capital on corporate decarbonization goals. Session topics to include:
- Climate-Aligned Financing: Frameworks and approaches for aligning corporate financial strategy, lending and investment portfolios with climate goals.
- Transition Capital: Strategies for financing hard-to-abate sectors and just transition initiatives.
- Blended Finance: Leveraging public-private partnerships, government incentives and innovative capital structures to de-risk and catalyze climate investments.
- Financial Innovation: New financial products and mechanisms designed to accelerate decarbonization and resilience.
Corporate Reporting & Disclosure
Navigating the evolving landscape of sustainability disclosure and its implications for capital markets and corporate finance. Session topics to include:
- Regulatory Developments: Implementation strategies for emerging and dynamic disclosure requirements: CSRD, CA climate rules, double materiality, CSDDD and human rights.
- Assurance & Data Quality: Building robust processes, controls and teams for investable, decision-useful sustainability information.
- Climate Risk Assessment: Methodologies and tools for scenario analysis and climate-related financial disclosures.
Climate-Aligned Investment
Strategies and approaches to allocate capital toward climate solutions while managing risks and generating returns across asset classes. Session topics to include:
- ESG Integration: Effective approaches to incorporating sustainability factors into corporate and investment firm decision-making.
- Catalyzing & Scaling Climate Tech: Identifying opportunities and allocating capital across asset classes to innovative technologies and companies driving scalable climate solutions across value chains.
- Private Markets: Opportunities in venture, private equity and infrastructure catalyzing climate solutions
- Credit and Capital Markets: Developments in green bonds, sustainability-linked debt, and other innovative instruments to support sustainability goals.
Commercial Impact
Integrating sustainability into corporate strategy and demonstrating its financial value to stakeholders and decision-makers. Session topics to include:
- Decision-Useful Metrics: Frameworks for developing, measuring, and communicating sustainability performance indicators that drive strategic decisions and capital allocation.
- The Role of Corporate Finance: How finance leadership and roles like ESG controllership are driving sustainability transformation, integrating climate considerations into financial planning and analysis, and collaborating with sustainability teams to create value.
- Materiality & Marketing: Understanding the ESG issues that drive top and bottom lines and how to highlight sustainability practices that put your business in the best light and keep sustainability as a business driver .
- Managing Competing Priorities: Approaches for sustainability leaders to navigate organizational tensions, align competing stakeholder interests, and build internal consensus for sustainability investments.