We’re excited to bring the work we do all year long investing in climate solutions and leading shareholder engagement to Climate Week NYC 2024. From September 22nd through 29th New York City will be the epicenter where investors, non-profits, corporations, government representatives, and concerned citizens gather to collaborate.
Climate Focus All Year Long
The Nia Impact Capital portfolios are fossil fuel free and are designed using our six solution themes to identify companies that are working to solve for some of the world’s most daunting sustainability challenges.
The climate crisis has far-reaching impact, with climate change posing immeasurable and immediate risks to our ecosystems, food security, economies, and investment portfolios. The effects of climate change present both significant opportunities for investors, as well as risks. As investors we recognize that taking action for climate change is both ethically and fiscally responsible and imperative when assessing operational and financial risks.
Leading up to and during Climate Week, Nia Impact Capital’s presence and engagement will span a range of events and actions:
Sponsoring Mother Jones, Rewiring America Event featuring Stacey Abrams
Nia Impact Capital is a proud sponsor of a highly anticipated Climate Week event being presented by Mother Jones: Better Worlds Ahead: Realizing Our Brighter Climate Futures features visionaries Stacey Abrams (Rewiring America) and Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (Urban Ocean Lab) who will lead an in-depth conversation about imagining better futures, finding hope and motivation for continued action, and where climate solutions are already taking root.
The event will be held on Monday, September 23rd, at 12pm ET in Tishman Auditorium. We’ll share the recording following the event.
Once again speaking out in support of SEC Climate Disclosure Regulation
In April of 2024, legal challenges to the SEC’s final disclosure rules resulted in the SEC voluntarily halting implementation pending judicial review.
In August of 2024, Nia Impact Capital joined with more than 15 institutional investors and several environmental groups including Ceres.org to file an amicus brief defending the SEC’s climate disclosure rule in order to support forward movement of this vital and continuously delayed regulation. “This is exactly what Congress established the SEC to do: ensure that investors have the information they need to make informed investment and voting decisions,” Amici curiae (quote from the brief). The filing of the brief was featured in this Pensions & Investments article.
Nia has a history of encouraging the SEC’s actions to bring consistency and comparability to climate financial disclosures. In 2022, we submitted a letter to the SEC in support of their proposed rules. We stated “Investors need transparent information about climate-related investment risks and the proposed climate-related disclosures would support the Commission’s mandate to protect investors, maintain fair and efficient markets and facilitate capital formation. We are in favor of the proposal as it is also responsive to investor and public demands and aligns with global regulatory peers who have made progress towards mandated, standardized climate-related financial disclosures.” You can read Nia’s full statement in our letter here.
We’ll be a presence in Time Square!
During the week of September 22nd our prominent billboard will make a bold statement to the hundreds of thousands of people who visit Time Square daily, about investing for a sustainable present and future with a diverse-led asset management team. Celebrating women in climate solutions via our billboard is another part of transforming the narrative via our Changing the Face of Finance program.
If you're going to be in New York we hope to see you there! We look forward to keeping you updated on our climate investing.
To learn more and/or to get started investing in climate solutions email us.
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