UPCOMING EVENTS

• Welcome Remarks | Prof. Julien MALAURENT, Executive Vice-president – ESSEC Business School
• Opening Remarks | Prof. Aurélien COLSON, Academic Co-Director – ESSEC Institute for Geopolitics & Business; Co-Director – ESSEC Center for Geopolitics, Defense & Leadership
• General Presentation | Prof. Frédéric CHARILLON, Co-Director – ESSEC Center for Geopolitics, Defense & Leadership; Professor of Political Science – Université Paris Cité
• Presentation #1 « Legal warfare, economic surcharges, talent poaching, export controls… An overview of economic security challenges in the post-globalization era »
• Presentation #2 « Economic coercion and information warfare:How certain powers target foreign companies »
• Presentation #3 « Influence, intimidation, and interference: How exposed are companies to the risks of hybrid warfare? »
• Presentation #4 « Human capital and cognitive sovereignty: Managing talent in a context of informational destabilization »
  Presentation #5 « Influence, interference, intimidation: French interests facing state-led threats to economic security »
• Final Round-table | « Towards a War Economy: What to Do When Necessity No Longer Makes Law? » | Featuring: Antoine DE BRAQUILANGES, CEO – Helsing and Vice Admiral Loïc FINAZ, Co-Director – ESSEC Center for Geopolitics, Defense & Leadership. Moderator: Thomas FRIANG, Executive Director – ESSEC Institute for Geopolitics & Business

As the world heads toward COP30 in Belém, climate action is unfolding against the backdrop of an increasingly polarized international order. Major powers are divided on multilateral commitments, with some governments openly retreating from global climate engagement while Brazil, as COP30 host, seeks to inject renewed ambition. On the financial front, the debate has reached a critical juncture: the Paris Summit for a New Global Financing Pact (2023) and the UN FFD4 Conference in Seville (June 2025) managed to prevent deadlock and produced valuable steps forward, yet the SDG financing gap continues to widen and reforms of the international financial architecture remain incomplete. In this fractured context, bridging the climate–development finance gap is not only central to the credibility of COP30, but also to the capacity of international cooperation to deliver under strain. Against this background, the ESSEC Institute for Geopolitics & Business and its IRENE Center for Negotiation & Mediation are convening a high-level webinar entitled: "Bridging the Climate–Development Finance Gap in a Fragmented World: Pathways to Effective Cooperation on the Road to Belém." The event will be held in English and will provide an academic yet policy-relevant platform to explore the geopolitical and financial dimensions of climate action on the eve of COP30.

Program

• Welcome Remarks - Prof. Anne-Claire PACHE – Associate Dean for Strategy, Alliance & Sustainability, ESSEC Business School
• Introductory Remarks - Prof. Aurélien COLSON – Academic Co-Director, ESSEC Institute for Geopolitics & Business and Director, ESSEC IRENE Center for Negotiation & Mediation
• Maé KURKJIAN – Director for Policy & Advocacy, The One Campaign France*
• Guillaume LAFORTUNE – Vice-president, United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN-SDSN)
• Guillaume POTTIER – Program Director for Climate and Development Finance, Institute for Climate Economics (I4CE)
• Audrey ROJKOFF – Head of Climate & Nature Division, French Development Agency (AFD)*
• Moderation & Closing Remarks - Thomas FRIANG, Executive Director – ESSEC Institute for Geopolitics & Business

➜ OPEN REGISTRATION