Pathways to Consensus
SIRI’s inaugural Decisionmakers Roundtable Discussion on Exploring Pathways to Consensus was held on June 6-7, 2024, at Columbia University. It brought together academics, industry experts, innovators, standard setters, policymakers and other world leaders from around the globe. The aim of this convening was to enhance dialogue amongst key players, identify challenges, explore pathways to consensus and a shared vision, find common ground, and stimulate renewed commitments and collaborations. Besides fostering dialogue and actions, the convening will also provide an opportunity to share insights of academic research and present new innovations and best
practices.
The landscape is full of new, exciting, and complicated theories and practices. In many ways we are witnessing the emergence of whole new “ecosystems of thought,” within which innovators are:
- mapping and measuring the financial materiality of sustainability to firms and investors;
- chronicling the negative externalities of impact materiality, or how those same firms and investors affect our global biosphere and civilization;
- implementing promising new theories and practices of impact investing which seeks joint financial and sustainability gains;
- working on how to mitigate harm and improve outcomes within major specific domains such as climate change, water use, biodiversity, inequality, and many others.
