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

• Companies focusing on people first
• Ford pivoting to make masks and ventilators
• Restaurant industry -- offering curbside pickup/delivery
• Healthcase industry - dealing with personal risk, physical demands
• BP's "Reimagining energy for people and our planet"
• Ben & Jerry's carrying about world peace

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

• Offsets that contribute to biodiversity and livelihoods
• The role of hydrogen
• Responsible consumption
• "Operationalization" of circular economy
• Renewable energy and storage
• Net zero products and services
• Electrification of transformation
• Solutions offered by low-tech
• Decoupling of growth and carbon emissions
• Government-mandated efforts on circular economy
• Life-cycle analysis in product development
• Change in capital flows
• Carbon pricing
• Carbon negative goals
• "Green swans"
• Carbon onsetting
• Cradle to Cradle
• Activist movements
• Indoor agriculture
• Movement to become "lessitarians"

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

• Agree on metrics
• Explore opportunities (look beyond risks)
• Recognize and integrate "S"
• Better alignment on materiality methodologies
• Shift from short-term, quarterly results thinking
• Looking beyond data/statistics to understand the full and more nuanced picture
• More dialogue between the groups
• Integrate the 8 Cs from Future-Fit Benchmark
• Shift sustainability reporting away from marketing departments
• Break the silos around ESG, integrate it deeper into strategy
• Expose the untruths / inconsistencies