By: Steve Webner Staff Writer for World Liberty TV

Industries are under pressure to innovate and cut emissions. How can businesses capitalize on energy innovation and environmental opportunities to fuel growth and drive profits?

The sixth edition of Sustainability Week US, incorporating the Energy Transition Summit, will explore how companies can boost resilience, reduce downtime and ensure American dominance.

With insights from industry leaders, policymakers and innovators, attendees will gain practical strategies on how to stay competitive in a rapidly changing market.

Join more than 500 sustainability leaders to shape the future of our planet.

Economist Events is now Economist Impact, empowering businesses, governments and foundations to catalyse change and enable progress.

Uniting the expertise, The Economist Group is known for under a single brand, Economist Impact brings together policy research and insights, data visualisation, custom storytelling, events and media.

Economist Impact combines the rigour of a think tank with the creativity of a media brand, engaging an influential audience in the areas of sustainability, healthcare and new globalisation.

Impacting the environment: Climate change management is also a key pillar of Economist Impact. With a global team of more than 120 economists, researchers and analysts, Economist Impact regularly partners with world-renowned brands to pioneer evidence-based policy research on climate, the environment and sustainability.

Our Economist Impact Events business curates high-quality content and convenes excellent speakers and delegates in a wide range of forums addressing environmental, social and governance issues.

Economist Intelligence brings world-class analytical expertise to addressing the world’s biggest challenges—including the risks and opportunities of environmental and social change.

Some of the speakers included: Dave Turk, Former deputy secretary of energy, US Department of Energy (DOE), Chelsea Clinton, Vice chair, Clinton Foundation, Andrew Cornelia, Chief executive, Mercedes-Benz High-Power Charging, Steve Wilhite, President, Sustainability Business, Schneider Electric, Diana Birkett Rakow, Senior vice-president, public affairs and sustainability, Alaska Airlines, Ann Lee, Chief executive and co-founder, Community Organized Relief Effort, Olga LaBelle, Vice-president ESG, Warner Music Group, Kara Fulcher, Director of sustainability North America, Michelin, Mona Dajani, Partner, global co-chair of energy infrastructure and hydrogen, co-chair, energy sector, Baker Botts and it was moderated by Vijay Vaitheeswaran Global energy and climate innovation editor, The Economist

Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran is the new Global energy & climate innovation editor, covering the energy and utility industries, the clean energy transition, climate innovations and low carbon technologies. He leads our coverage of America’s climate and green infrastructure efforts, and keeps a watchful eye on ESG trends and corporate pledges of net-zero emissions for signs of promise as well as greenwashing.

An award-winning senior journalist, he previously served as both US Business Editor and China Business Editor. He also serves as chairman of The Economist Innovation Summit, a provocative series of global conferences on innovation.

He joined the editorial staff in 1992 as its London-based Latin America correspondent, and opened the magazine’s first regional bureau in Mexico City. From 1998 to 2006, he covered the politics, economics, business and technology of energy and the environment. From 2007 to 2011 his portfolio encompassed innovation, global health, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology.

His latest book, published by Harper Collins, is “Need, Speed and Greed: How the New Rules of Innovation Can Transform Businesses, Propel Nations to Greatness, and Tame the World’s Most Wicked Problems”. Amazon named it a Book of the Month and Kirkus Reviews called it “the perfect primer for the postindustrial age.” In reviewing the book, the Financial Times declared that “Vaitheeswaran is a writer to whom it is worth paying attention.” It has been translated into Chinese and several other languages. His second book, “ZOOM: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future,” co-authored with Iain Carson, was named a Book of the Year by the Financial Times.

Vijay is a life member at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is an advisor on sustainability and innovation to the World Economic Forum at Davos, and his commentaries have appeared on NPR and the BBC, in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. He has addressed groups ranging from the US National Governors’ Association and the UN General Assembly to the Technology, Entertainment & Design (TED), Aspen Ideas and AAAS conferences.

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