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The United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) is partnering with Swiss Sustainable Finance (SSF) to hold the UNEP FI Regional Roundtable in Europe on 16 – 18 October 2017 in the Centre International de Conférences Genève (CICG Geneva), Switzerland.
In this landmark year of UNEP FI’s 25th anniversary, the Regional Roundtable will provide an opportunity for actors in the sustainable finance community to come together from across Europe to discuss the latest trends and innovations, and share good practice.
Sustainable finance is at a critical juncture in Europe, with the EU High-Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance gaining traction on integrating environmental, social and governance issues into the financial system, and enabling banks, insurers and asset managers to take a stronger role in leading the growth of sustainable finance.
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Agenda
| 09:00 - 15:45 | Principles of Sustainable Insurance (PSI) European Market Event Venue: Room 3 level 0 - Welcome remarks and the evolution of the Principles for Sustainable Insurance - Creating Insurance Development Goals for Cities - Integration environmental, social and governance issues into the insurance business - Developing an environmental risk management tool for the insurance industry - Building inclusive insurance markets to help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals - The insurance industry's role in promoting good health and a healthy environment Link to the Agenda Speakers: ♦ Michael Bruch, Head of Emerging Trends & ESG Business Services, Allianz Global Corporate & Speciality ♦ Esther Delbourg, Chief of Staff, Public Affairs & Corporate Responsibility, AXA ♦ Amandine Favier, Senior Adviser Sustainable Finance, WWF Switzerland ♦ Linda Freiner, Group Head of Corporate Responsibility, Zurich Insurance Group ♦ David Patterson, WWF-SIGHT Analyst, WWF UK ♦ Liesbeth van der Kruit, Director, Corporate Social Responsibility, Achmea ♦ Craig Churchill, Team Leader, International Labour Organization’s Impact Insurance Facility ♦ Katharine Pulvermacher, Executive Director, Microinsurance Network ♦ Zelda Bentham, Group Head of Sustainability, Aviva plc ♦ Esther Delbourg, Chief of Staff, Public Affairs & Corporate Responsibility, AXA ♦ Chris Oullette, Head of Global Corporate Citizenship, Manulife |
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| 16:00 - 18:00 | Impactful Wealth Management Venue: Room 3 level 0 Side-Event by Swiss Sustainable Finance Swiss Sustainable Finance will give the audience the opportunity to gain in-depth knowledge on the topic of Sustainable Investing and how it is influencing the private wealth management market. Based on a 2017 SSF publication on this theme, expert speakers will discuss what the demand looks like and how it is driving the development of innovative actors, and hence products, in the field. Speakers: ♦ Sabine Döbeli, CEO, Swiss Sustainable Finance ♦ Kelly Hess, Project Manager, Swiss Sustainable Finance ♦ Bertrand Gacon, Head SRI and Impact Investing, Lombard Odier ♦ Philip Walker, Managing Director Africa, Obviam ♦ Roland Dominicé, CEO, Symbiotics ♦ Johnny El Hachem, CEO, Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity ♦ Olivier Rousset, Head Impact Investments, Credit Suisse Moderator: ♦ Angela de Wolff, Partner, Conser Invest |
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| 18:00 - 18:30 | Walking Tour: Through the Broken Chair Sculpture and the UN Palais des Nations Meeting Point: CICG Registration Counter, Level 0 |
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| 18:30 - 21:30 | 25th Anniversary Celebration Reception* Venue: Hall XIV, Palais des Nations (Entrance from Pregny Gate) Recognizing the growth of the sustainable finance agenda since UNEP FI’s launch in 1992 and the role of members in providing leadership. Master of Ceremony ♦ Eric Usher, Head, UNEP Finance Initiative Speakers: ♦ Fiona Reynolds, Managing Director, Principles for Responsible Investment ♦ Sabine Döbeli, CEO, Swiss Sustainable Finance ♦ Scott Vaughan, President & CEO, International Institute for Sustainable Development ♦ Takejiro Sueyoshi, Special Advisor, UNEP Finance Initiative / CEO, Green Finance Organization Japan UNEP FI Members ♦ Zelda Bentham, Group Head of Sustainability, Aviva plc *By invitation only. Please note that identification (ID) is required by Palais des Nations security to enter the building. |
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| 10:00 - 13:00 Property Working Group Working Day Meeting The Property Working Group will meet to review recent progress and discuss its work plan for the coming year, including an investment framework for Positive Impact in real estate and energy efficiency finance. New initiatives that may be jointly developed with UNEP FI banking members for green debt and securities will also be discussed Chaired by ♦ Tatiana Bosteels, Director Responsibility and Head of Responsible Property Investment, Hermes Investment | 10:00 - 14:00 Banking Committee Meeting (for UNEP FI Banking Committee members only) Moderator ♦ Simone Dettling, UNEP FI | ||
Property Working Group Meeting opens for all UNEP FI Banking Members | |||
| 16:00 - 18:00 Property Working Group Working Day Meeting (continued) | 16:00 - 18:00 Banking Town-Hall Meeting (for all UNEP FI banking members) This session, which opens to all UNEP FI Banking members, will discuss about the preliminary feedback on Review Statement of Commitment. The agenda also includes presentation and discussion on the Sustainability Dashboard and thematic flagship projects for 2018. The session will ends with discussion around 2018 Banking Work plan. Moderator ♦ Simone Dettling, UNEP FI | 16:00 - 18:00 Investment Committee Meeting The Investment Committee will review the UNEP FI investment programme of work and priorities for 2018-2019. Moderator ♦ Elodie Feller, UNEP FI | |
| 08:00 | Registration |
| 08:15 - 08:45 | Lightning Rounds Plenary Session Venue: Room 1bis level 1 Start the day with inspiration! These presentations will highlight innovations and tools that are helping to align finance with sustainability. Topics & Speakers ♦ Conservation Finance Simon Stücheli, Assistant Vice President, Sustainability Affairs, Credit Suisse ♦ Impact Bonds Fabio Sofia, Head of Portfolio Advisory, Symbiotics ♦ Climetrics Laurent Babikian, Director Investor Engagement, CDP Europe Moderator ♦ Hugh Whelan, Managing Editor, Responsible Investor |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Opening and Keynote Plenary Session Venue: Room 1bis level 1 MC Remarks: ♦ Georg Kell, Chairman, Arabesque Opening: ♦ Elliott Harris, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Head of UN Environment New York Office ♦ Eric Usher, Head, UNEP Finance Initiative Keynote: ♦ René van de Kieft, CEO, MN |
| 09:30 - 10:40 | Progress on Sustainable Finance (and the Long Road Ahead) Plenary Session Venue: Room 1bis level 1 Although the sustainable finance agenda has made progress, particularly on the back of the Paris Climate Accord and UN 2030 Agenda, the world is in a more precarious situation today, geopolitically, environmentally and socially, than ever before. The question this panel will consider is whether sustainability considerations, both the risks and opportunities, are at an inflection point today within the finance industry towards creating the scale of capital mobilisation necessary to halt global climate change and attain the SDGs. Speakers ♦Antoni Ballabriga, Global Head of Responsible Business, BBVA ♦Zelda Bentham, Group Head of Sustainability, Aviva plc ♦Leon Kamhi, Head of Responsibility, Hermes Investment Management ♦Roelfien Kuijpers, Head of Responsible Investments and Strategic Relationships, Deutsche Asset Management ♦Jane Wilkinson, Head of Sustainable Finance, Luxembourg Stock Exchange Moderator: ♦ Eric Usher, Head, UNEP Finance Initiative |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Networking Break Engage with the high-level participants over coffee. |
and focus on forward-looking approaches. |
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| 11:00 - 12:00 | The Paris Agreement, the TCFD and beyond: managing risk, seizing opportunity & enabling the climate economic transition Plenary Session Venue: Room 1bis level 1 The Paris Agreement envisions the almost complete decarbonisation of the global economy by the second half of the century, and will require that public and private financial flows are rechannelled to finance a steady but smooth transition to a climate-compatible economy. In parallel, the Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), is asking financial and non-financial corporations, as well as asset owners, to carefully assess and disclose how their organizations are likely to be impacted by climate change and how they are planning to respond. This session will answer the following questions: • What can financial institutions do to tackle the intertwined challenges of not only weathering—but actually benefiting from and enabling—the transition to the low-carbon and climate-resilient economy of the future? • How can they work together with governments, legislators, and their clients and investees to achieve these goals? Speakers: ♦ Olivier Rousseau, Executive Director, Fonds de Réserve pour Les Retraites (The French Pension Reserve Fund) ♦ Liselotte Arni, Head of Environmental and Social Risk, UBS ♦ Jakob Thomae, Director, 2° Investing Initiative Germany Moderator: ♦ David Pitt-Watson, Former Co-Chair of UNEP Finance Initiative |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Dialogue on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Finance & Positive Impact Plenary Session Venue: Room 1bis level 1 An estimated $5-7 trillion a year until 2030 are needed to realize the Sustainable Development Goals worldwide, from both public and private sources. In 2015 UNEP FI released the Positive Impact Manifesto based on the belief that SDG impacts can become the source of a vibrant market and that private finance has an active role to play in bringing it about. This session will bring together leading figures on the topic of SDG finance from both public and private organizations for a focused dialogue on the different avenues for promoting and enabling private SDG finance and how these approaches could best be coordinated for maximum impact. Speakers: ♦ Denis Childs, Head of Positive Impact Finance and Environmental and Social Advisory, Société Générale ♦ Christopher Flensborg, Head of Climate & Sustainable Finance, SEB ♦ Gerbrand Haverkamp, Executive Director, Index Initiative ♦ Guido Schmidt-Traub, Executive Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network Moderator: ♦ Careen Abb, UNEP Finance Initiative |
| 13:00 - 13:15 | Fireside Chat on the “Casablanca statement on financial centres and sustainability” Venue: Room 1bis Speakers ♦ Nick Robins, Co-Director, UNEP Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System ♦ Philippe Zaouati, CEO of Mirova and Chair of Paris’ Finance for Tomorrow initiative |
| 13:15 - 13:20 | Announcement of the 2018 Global Roundtable Venue: Room 1bis |
| 13:20 - 14:45 | Networking Lunch Venue: Foyer outside room 1bis, catered by M!P Restaurant on Level 1 |
| 13:50 – 14:40 | Annual General Meeting (Members only) Engaging members from around the world in making key strategic and operational decisions, in celebrating the previous year’s progress and in looking ahead to the work programme for the coming year. Moderator: ♦ Christian Thimann, UNEP FI Co-Chair, Group Head of Regulation, Sustainability and Insurance Foresight, AXA |
| 14:45 - 15:45 | Dialogue with Regulators/Policy-Makers Plenary Session Venue: Room 1bis level 1 This dialogue with will cover key policy and regulatory developments for creating an enabling environment for sustainable finance in Europe Speakers: ♦ Liliana de Sá Kirchknopf, Head of the Private Sector Development Division in the Economic Development Cooperation Directorate, SECO ♦ Richard Mattison, Managing Director and CEO, Trucost, part of S&P Dow Jones Indices ♦ Willemijn Verdegaal,Senior Advisor Responsible Investment & Governance, MN ♦ James Vaccaro, Director of Strategy, Triodos Bank Moderator: ♦ Nick Robins, Co-Director, UNEP Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | Networking Break Engage with the high-level participants over coffee. |
| 16:15 - 17:40 | Parallel Session 1 - Venue: Room 5 level 3 |
| Environmental Resilience and the Finance Sector The environment ultimately underpins all human activity as climate change, combined with human activities contribute to the depletion and degradation of natural resources and create environmental-related risks to economies. The effects include lowered resilience to catastrophic events, such as drought or typhoons, and the inability to maintain and grow critical parts of the economy. Momentum is growing to understand and address environmental sources of financial risk. This session offers an opportunity to gain insight into the importance of environmental resilience in the finance sector from a broad selection of actors. Speakers ♦ Madeleine Ronquest, Head of Environmental and Social Risk Management, FirstRand ♦ Miroslav Petkov, Director, Head of Financial Services Environmental and Climate Risk Research, S&P Global Ratings ♦ Richard Burrett, Partner, Earth Capital Partners ♦ Linda Freiner, Head of Corporate Responsibility, Zurich Insurance Group Moderator ♦ Peter Koegler, Director, Corporate and Ecosystem Finance from Conservation International - Europe |
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| Parallel Session 2 - Venue: Room 6 level 3 | |
| Financing Energy Efficiency Energy efficiency already represents a significant investment opportunity, with more than USD 221 billion of new energy efficiency investment occurring globally. In the EU, the European Commission has decided to put energy efficiency front and center in the implementation of its contributions to the Paris Agreement, and has identified energy efficiency as the first fuel for the EU economy. Energy Efficiency Financial Institutions Group (EEFIG) in its first phase determined that risk and value are the two key drivers of enhanced energy efficiency investment, and consequently has produced two key tools for financial institutions to increase their engagement with energy efficiency; The EEFIG Underwriting Toolkit (Risk and Value Appraisal Framework) and The De-Risking Energy Efficiency Platform. Speakers ♦ Paula Rey-Garcia,Team Leader, Buildings and Finance, Directorate General for Energy, European Commission ♦ Tatiana Bosteels,Director Responsibility and Head of Responsible Property, Hermes Investment ♦ James Vaccaro,Director of Strategy, Triodos Bank ♦ Paul Cullum,Product Development Manager, HSB Engineering Insurance Limited, Munich-Re Moderator ♦ Peter Sweatman,G20 Energy Efficiency Finance Task Group Rapporteur, Climate Strategy & Partners |
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| Parallel Session 3 - Venue: Room 13 level 2 | |
| A Rights-Based Approach to Sustainable Finance Since the unanimous endorsement of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), various stakeholder groups – businesses, civil society, intergovernmental platforms – have been working on clarifying the practical implications of the ‘responsibility respect human rights’ for financial institutions. At the same time, in their journey to sustainability, financial institutions are increasingly showing willingness to contribute to the achievement of global priorities such as the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement. How do these efforts come together in a coherent human rights-aligned sustainable finance agenda? The session will provide an overview of industry efforts from the region to advance the implementation of the UNGPs, and will discuss how to connect - from a human rights perspective - the various sustainability-driven actions of financial institution, to ultimately arrive at an inclusive, rights-based sustainable finance agenda. Speakers ♦ Maria Anne van Dijk, Head of Environmental Social & Ethical Risk & Policy, ABN AMRO ♦ Lucia Rückner, Senior Consultant Corporate Responsibility, Munich Re ♦ Marc Bichler, Luxembourg Ambassador-at-Large for Human Rights & Climate Change, Ministry of Foreign Relations, Luxembourg ♦ Daniel Neale, Programme Director, Corporate Human Rights Benchmark Moderator ♦ Sabina Timco Iacazzi, Lead, Social Issues and Human Rights, UNEP Finance Initiative |
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| 17:40 - 18:00 | Closing Keynote Plenary Keynote Session Venue: Room 1bis level 1 A round up of the conference with a focus on forthcoming policy and regulatory developments such as the finalisation of the High Level Expert Group recommendation and expected European Commission's actions henceforth and implementation processes of the TCFD recommendations Speakers ♦ Christian Thimann,UNEP FI Co-Chair, Group Head of Regulation, Sustainability and Insurance Foresight, AXA ♦ Eric Usher,Head, UNEP Finance Initiative MC Remarks ♦ Georg Kell,Chairman, Arabesque |
| Parallel Sessions: Members only | |
| 09:00 - 14:00 | Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) Working Session |
| 09:00 - 16:30 | Positive Impact Members’ Meeting |
| UNEP FI Global Steering Committee Members Only | |
| 09:00 - 16:30 | UNEP FI Global Steering Committee Meeting |