Q1: What examples of companies demonstrating resilience in the face of the extraordinary pressures of 2020 have most struck you and why?

• Microsoft's early commitment to employees, suppliers and communities stood out to me. Unilever has been ubiquitous and inspiring also.
• Tech companies, very agile in shaping their business based on the new customers' needs
• perfume companies in France shifted to sanitation products in the early part of the pandemic
• Bhp signing renewable energy contracts in chile anx australia
• BP on Mental Health, new strategy
• Oilfield service companies 3D printing PPE
• Relocating contact centres across the global to 'working from home within a week'
• Manufacturing - the agile way it converted processes
• Reskilling, retaining staff
• Talent retention strategies
• Improvement in air quality
• The arts industry - home theatre
• Virtual online training
• SME's agility e.g. restaurants moving to delivery locally
• Relinquishing dividends to avoid lay-offs

Q2: What do you see as the most exciting solutions that can accelerate the creation of a net-zero economy and society?

• Carbon extraction from the air
• Rapid implementation and uptake of renewable energy
• Standardization of metrics and reporting 
• Localised solutions to complement larger infrastructure and generational changes
• Ensuring we look to a more holistic viewpoint and develop cross-functional solutions
• Using ESG data to drive strategy
• Green hydrogen projects
• Getting US back into the Paris Agreement 
• A global price on carbon
• Reforestation - corporate investment
• Offsets for most companies - Needed
• Addressing biodiversity challenges 
• Collaboration between tech and mining
• Value chain collaboration
• Hydrogen scale-up
• Net Zero with view to nature positive biological abatement
• Circular approaches to value chains
• Nature-based solutions at scale
• International cooperation
• Carbon footprint reduction in our daily life
• The Keeling Curve
• Science-based targets
• Companies increasing internal carbon-price

Q3: What more should investors, ratings and companies do to integrate ESG into financial decision-making?

• Double materiality 
• Select specific ESG issues and work towards them, showcase their results
• Consistent ESG measurement
• Making TCFD mandatory
• Start pricing momentum - no link currently between sovereign credit spreads and climate risk.
• Dispense with quarterly earnings reports - think and manage for long-term value creation
• Fact-based, measureable data
• ESG means doing both the right things and the wrong things
• ESG implementation linked to executive incentives
• Balanced reporting 
• transparency on ESG impacts
• Explore the idea that sustainability and ESG may not be equivalent concepts
• data maturity curve needed
• Investors making active choices