Reputation and Risk: Communicating Climate Leadership in a Skeptical Age | Aman Gupta, Jacques Philippe, Aldo Zucaro

The 2025 Climate & Sustainability Leadership Forum session explores how organizations can maintain credibility while advancing climate initiatives amid widespread skepticism and misinformation. Moderated by Aman Gupta of FINN Partners, the discussion brings together Jacques Philippe of DKSH Healthcare and Aldo Zucaro of CooperCompanies, who emphasize building trust through robust internal data systems rather than sophisticated messaging, localizing global initiatives to enable individual action, prioritizing documented current achievements over future promises, simplifying metrics to combat misinformation, and empowering distributed climate action throughout organizations. The conversation reveals that climate credibility requires organizations to demonstrate rather than declare, simplify rather than complicate, and integrate environmental responsibility with core business strategy.