Water: risk, opportunity and investments
Tuesday 25 August 2020
10:00 ET / 15:00BST

Topics to be discussed:

• Is water the natural capital asset that binds all other natural capital assets together?
• Identifying water-related risks to investor portfolios
• How are the environmental links between water and other assets understood and balanced?
• Creating value from water-related investments
• Improving investors’ ability to assess and price climate-related risk and opportunities

Confirmed speakers:

• Alessia Falsarone, Head of Sustainable Investing, Senior Portfolio and Risk Strategist, Pinebridge Investment Management
• Cate Lamb, Director of Water Security, CDP
• Erin Boeke Burke, Associate Director of Sustainable Finance, S&P Global Ratings

What will the green taxonomy mean for investors?
Tuesday 1 September 2020
10:00 ET / 15:00BST

 
Topics to be discussed:

• EU’s green taxonomy plans – opportunities and challenges
• The taxonomy’s definition of transition – will nuclear and gas be included?
• How can investors and issuers be engaging to ensure alignment with the taxonomy?
• How has market feedback been addressed?
• To what extent could the taxonomy framework be adapted to, and harmonised with, other markets outside the EU?
• What is the case for a brown taxonomy?

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Digital technology and Fintech to bolster financial inclusion
Tuesday 8 September 2020
10:00 ET / 15:00BST

Topics to be discussed:

• What opportunities does Fintech bring to ensuring financial inclusion?
• Are there risks that need to be managed, such a cyber
• Examples where progress and impact has already been made?
• Lessons learned and next steps

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Transition bonds
Tuesday 29 September 2020
10:00 ET / 15:00BST

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Investing in the circular economy
Tuesday 4 August 2020
10:00 ET / 15:00BST

Topics to be discussed:

• Exploring markets for the circular economy
• What are the challenges of the circular economy?
• The EU’s circular economy action plan
• How should investors be thinking about the circular economy

Confirmed speakers:

• Ivo Luiten, Senior Portfolio Manager in the Sustainable & Impact Investing Team, NN IP
• Christina Shim, Regional Director and head of the Commercial Innovation Practice, Palladium
• Joost van Dun, Circular Economy Lead, ING Bank

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Impact investing in the healthcare sector
Tuesday 11 August 2020
10:00 ET / 15:00BST

Topics to be discussed:

• Metrics and approaches for measuring impact in the healthcare sector
• Governments look set to pump more cash in in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic – what are the implications for investors?
• What is appropriate for an impact investor, and what is impact washing?
• Is big pharma OK?

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Coronabonds
1 hour

Topics discussed:

• Covid-19 and the renewed spotlight on the “S” in ESG
• What do Covid-19-related bonds look like, what are good eligible use of proceeds?
• How many have been issued so far?
• What are the implications of coronabonds for the green, social and sustainability bond market?
• How effective are such products and in what other situations could similar bonds be utilised?

Confirmed speakers:

• Elena Panomarenko, Senior Financial Officer, IFC
• Lupin Rahman, Global Head of Emerging Market Sovereign Credit, Executive VP and Portfolio Manager, PIMCO
• Théo Kotula, ESG Analyst, Axa Investment Managers
  
• Willem Hettinga, Senior Responsible Investment Specialist, APG Asset Management

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• What are the pros and the cons of KPI-linked bonds when compared with the labelled bond market?
• Do such structures bolster the sustainable finance market or jeopardise its progress?
• Are KPI-linked bonds a key entry point for issuers who would not be able to issue a GSS bond?
• What do investors think of these products?
• Will the traditional use-of-proceeds model eventually become obsolete?

Confirmed speakers:

• Jacob Michaelsen, Head of Sustainable Finance Advisors, Nordea
• James Hay, Investment Associate, MainStreet Partners
• Mélanie Comble, Head of Second Party Opinion Operations, ISS-ESG

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Exploring the rise in sustainability linked loans
1 hour

Topics discussed: 

• Sustainability-linked loans: a good tool for driving change in corporates?
• What efforts are being made to bring more transparency and standardisation to sustainability linked loans?
• What standards or guidelines are being developed?
• Setting meaningful KPI targets
• Prospects for market growth

Confirmed speakers:

• Cécile Moitry, Sustainable Finance Markets Co-head, BNP Paribas CIB
• Claudia Toussaint, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Chief Sustainability Officer, Xylem
• Jean-Claude Berthelot, Director for Sustainable Finance Solutions, Sustainalytics
• Tess Virmani, Associate General Counsel and Executive Vice-President of Public Policy, Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA)

Investing in Biodiversity
1 hour

Topics discussed:

• Assessing the benefits of preserving biodiversity
• Sectors with a key role: agriculture, fisheries, forestry
• Potential funding sources: public, private, blended
• Policy drivers

Confirmed speakers:

• Albert Charlier, Senior Analyst, Vigeo Eiris
• Bjorn Stauch, Senior Regional Director, Conservation Finance, Conservation International
• Neha Dutt, Senior Policy Advisor, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and UK Government Lead on the Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
• Roel Nozeman, Senior Advisor, Biodiversity, ASN Bank

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Topics to be discussed:

• Where should the focus turn for future renewable energy investment? Should the priority be new frontiers or established markets?
• How can institutional investors be encouraged to invest further in renewable energy and, in particular, could they be key to supporting investment in underinvested areas?
• What are the implications of the current economic disruption caused by coronavirus and the low oil price on ‘green’ energy investment?
• How are the opportunities and challenges set to change as the renewable energy market matures and grows its global share?

Confirmed speakers:

• Allan Baker, global head of power advisory and project finance, Société Générale
• Marco van Daele, co-CEO and chief investment officer, SUSI Partners
• Richard Thompson, Partner, Foresight

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Topics discussed:

• Where are we with respect to the Paris Agreement targets?
• Impact of Covid-19 on climate goals
• What action is the financial sector taking? 
• What is the outlook for carbon pricing & emissions trading?
• What more needs to be done?

• Katie Sullivan, Managing Director, International Emissions Trading Association
• Rosie Donachie, Group Head of Government Relations and Regulatory Strategy, London Stock Exchange Group
• Ivan Frishberg, First Vice President Sustainability Banking, Amalgamated Bank and Chair of the Partnership on Carbon Accounting Financials, North America

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