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WAKE-UP-MORNING. If all stakeholders in society are invited to accelerate their ecological transition, they must not forget to take into account the repercussions it will have on the humans who make up their organization.
This is what the co-presidents of the Montreal Climate Summit, the managing partner for Eastern Canada at EY Canada, Anne-Marie Hubert, and the regional director of public health for Montreal, Mylène Drouin, remind decision-makers on the sidelines of the unveiling of the program for its third edition.
At the event which will be held from May 7 to 8, 2024, adaptation will be one of the central themes addressed.
“Whether at the level of the community, institutions or the economic environment, we are all interdependent: if one does not adapt well, we quickly paralyze the functioning of society,” underlines Dr. Mylène Drouin.
However, these expected profound changes will inevitably have consequences for citizens, affecting for example their employability.
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“By eliminating some of our activities, people will lose their jobs. […] Others will have to adapt their skills, adds Anne-Marie Hubert. Do I do nothing or do I work with partners so that they develop other skills to allow them to get back on their feet?
Not all employees will be able to do this with equal agility, like those who are part of vulnerable populations. The company may be the lifeblood of an entire community, and its transition could leave important marks.
“We absolutely have to ask ourselves what we are going to do to help these people develop skills. What opportunities will they have in our new business model to bring products to market that meet the needs of investors?” says the EY Canada partner.
This is one of the reflections that participants of the Montreal Climate Summit will be invited to make.
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Bringing together players from all sectors of activity, the event aims to be a place for exchange and sharing of best practices in order to help all organizations, whether private or public, to become more ecologically resilient.
To try to counteract the barriers to this transition, the Montreal Climate Summit team surveyed around forty organizations in the last year in order to identify them.
Among the main reasons cited, we find in second place the lack of knowledge about the transition and climate change, and in ninth the lack of mobilization of management and employees.
“If we want to go further, it is by combining knowledge from different environments. Some are more advanced, so they can share their practices, but also the levers they have that others may not have even imagined using yet,” believes Mylène Drouin.
Workshops to learn how to become an intrapreneur and initiate significant changes within a company have been scheduled, as well as discussion panels to draw inspiration from the best moves in certain industries, including the health sector.
This will be an opportunity to gain perspective in order to collectively resolve problems that each organization encounters at its own level. Members of different levels of government and the financial sector will be brought together to guide participants on what levers they could use to accelerate their approach.
At the end of the event, each participant should therefore have a better idea of what they can do to support their organization in its transition, we hope, even if they are not part of its decision-makers.
“For us, it is the employees, the doctors and the new generation who are putting the importance of investing in the integrated fight against climate change on the management agenda,” underlines Mylène Drouin.
