Sustainability Magazine January 2025 | Page 100

Nina Eisenman We ’ re really at a pivotal moment in sustainability . If we are going to achieve the emissions reductions goals and find the proper balance between energy sustainability and energy stability , we ’ re going to have to make progress on a few fronts :

• Capital formation and allocation

• Technology innovation

• Reporting and disclosure improvements .

It ’ s an ecosystem challenge – it ’ s always a team effort .

I try to look at my life from that ecosystem perspective . I think about things that I ’ ve done in my personal life and in the community and how I can make progress on those fronts professionally .

On the personal front , I try to be a good role model . I live in a home that ’ s heated and cooled with geothermal energy and I talk to my neighbours about that . I have solar panels , I have my EV plugged in front of my house – when you do something and your neighbour sees you doing that something , they ’ re more likely to do that as well .

From a community perspective , for a number of years now I have been on my Climate Smart Community Task Force .

As part of that group , I volunteered and did our town ’ s municipal greenhouse gas inventory . That report actually allowed the town to identify emissions reductions opportunities in our municipal buildings and fleet . We were able to leverage the information to secure grants and we now have geothermal and air source heat pumps in a number of our municipal buildings .

We now have EV vehicles in our municipal fleet and EV chargers in town that we were able to secure through that work .

As the Head of ESG Strategy and Reporting at Nasdaq , my job is to constantly improve our reporting practice . That is really important because it builds the trust between those that need capital for sustainability projects and those that are allocating the capital .

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