ACT’ors for Sustainability

Embedding people who make Sustainability for real

Purpose

ACT’ors aims to (trans)form those who have the power to change the economy for becoming really sustainable.
It means that companies and investors develop strategies to promote resilient business models able to face huge disruptions already in place on environmental, social, democratic and geopolitics issues.

Anne-Catherine Husson-Traore has launched ACT’ors For Sustainability for helping Executives to make a sustainable shift.

Expert in Sustainable Finance, she offers to share her skills in various forms.

  • Master Classes
  • Key note Speeches
  • Strategic training for Executive Committees and Boards on ESG risks

Sustainable skills

In this era of great confusion where doubters become thought leaders, it is urgent to set the record straight by giving leaders the keys to understanding the world as it is: VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous).

Human and environmental resources are becoming limited, climate change is accelerating and the globalized organization of the economy is increasingly fragile. This cocktail of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) risks weighs more and more heavily on many sectors without them being able to understand and control the disruptions at work.

ACT’ors For Sustainability helps them analyze the inevitable transformations to which they must adapt in order to implement the transformation of their business models. Continuing to think in silos by separating human resources, environmental impact and financial results is increasingly risky. The instability of regulations, taxation and the disappearance of the medium-long term from political discourse complicates the decision-making circuits of pilots regardless of the size, public or private sector or the mode of governance of companies, listed or not.

In this highly complex world where geopolitics and environmental crises play an increasingly crucial role, decision-makers need to acquire « sustainable skills ». They help them to measure positive and négative impacts of their activities as well as their environnemental and social dépendance in ordre to establish the most resilent strategy. 

Sustainable skills are a combination of

  • hard skills: knowledge of planetary boundaries, energy issues , water scarcity, supply chain challenges and major benchmarks used by investors and companies
  • soft skills: able to develop ecosystemic thinking, to make decisions based on benefit/risk balances built from economic, environmental and social science based data!

Sustainable Finance

Anne-Catherine Husson-Traore was part of High Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance (HLEG) launched by EU Commission in 2017.
This group has produced a report “Financing a sustainable European economy” which helps to disseminate Sustainable Finance in EU and other countries 

Finance for tomorrow

Anne-Catherine Husson-Traore was part of the team who launched an initiative called “Finance for Tomorrow” with the base line “Sustainable Future begins in Paris” in 2018
She contributed actively to help this initiative to be a driver to embed financial actors in a new challenge : be more sustainable.

Despite ESG backlashes, this challenge is still up to date !

Ce « bagage durable » est une combinaison de hard skills et de soft skills

Hard Skills : Acquérir des compétences sur les limites planétaires, les problématiques d’énergie, d’eau, d’approvisionnements en matières premières ainsi que les principaux référentiels utilisés, du Global Compact aux Principes Directeurs de l’OCDE en passant par la taxonomie européenne.
Comprendre aussi l’esprit des réglementations européennes (CSRD, taxonomie…) et l’articulation avec les modèles de finance durable ainsi que leur appropriation par d’autres régions du monde  …

Soft Skills :
Développer des stratégies globales basées sur une analyse écosystémique et transversale,
Prendre des décisions basées sur des balances bénéfices/risques construites à partir de données économiques, environnementales et sociales renouvelées
Projeter son business plan dans des logiques de scenarios pour atteindre des objectifs économiques, environnementaux et sociaux, cohérents et crédibles.