ClimatSup Finance – Training Finance Professionals for the Ecological Transition

Developments in the sector over the last few years have multiplied the number of subjects to which these issues can be applied, and they now concern the wide range of activities covered by the term "Finance": from the cash management of a very small company to the taxation of international groups, not forgetting a good knowledge and, if possible, informed practice of the ever-increasing number of. [...] » Sylvain De Forges, Administrator, The Shift Project ClimatSup Finance – Training Finance Professionals for the Ecological Transition – 5 The Shift Project – October 2022 « Faced with the ecological crisis, CNP Assurances is convinced that the financial sector is part of the solution, not part of the problem. [...] Indisputable scientific consensus: human activities are at the origin of the major imbalances affecting the planet Earth The situation is worrisome at the beginning of the 21st century. [...] The world of finance depends on the capacity of the socio-economic sphere to extract from the Earth system a sustainable flow of surplus energy - in other words, an adequate flow of physical resources - capable of perpetuating the functioning of human institutions32. [...] There is a positive feedback loop between the implementation of the ecological transition and the transition risks: the more the economy reduces its ecological impacts, the more the transition risks increase, while the physical risks49 stabilise50.