Speakers highlighted the growing importance of ESG strategy within CVC investments and how CVCs can help their respective parent firms’ green goals, particularly after COP26.

Many promises were made by both public and private actors during last year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), but significantly more work needs to be done to deliver them, according to Laurent Guengant, vice-president of strategy and operation for industrial and electronics conglomerate Hitachi, in a keynote speech during the second day of Global Corporate Venturing’s 11th Symposium.

Countries such as the US, Germany, Canada and others have made multibillion-dollar commitments to bring down emissions, while companies – including…

Fernando Moncada Rivera

Fernando Moncada Rivera is a reporter at Global Corporate Venturing and also host of the CVC Unplugged podcast.