08:00-10:00 | Registration and Networking 08:00-09:00 Registration for UNEP FI Members Only 09:00-10:00 Registration for all participants |
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09:00-10:00 | UNEP FI Annual General Meeting (UNEP FI Members Only) Venue: Grand Auditorium |
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10:15 | Start of the Global Roundtable • Maithreyi Seetharaman - Anchor and Executive Editor, Euronews |
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10:15-10:30 | Opening Ceremony & Welcome Venue: Grand Auditorium Welcome: Augustin de Romanet - Chairman, Paris Europlace & Eric Usher - Head, UNEP FI Opening remarks: • Satya Tripathi - Assistant Secretary-General, UN Environment |
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10:30-10:40 | Keynote Venue: Grand Auditorium • Thomas Buberl - CEO, Axa Group |
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10:40-10:50 | Keynote Venue: Grand Auditorium • Masamichi Kono - Deputy Secretary-General, OECD |
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10:50-11:00 | Keynote Venue: Grand Auditorium • Hiro Mizuno - Executive Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer, GPIF Japan |
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11:00-13:00 | Launch of the Principles for Responsible Banking for Public Consultation Venue: Grand Auditorium |
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11:00-11:20 | Leaders Dialogue: The Role of Banking • Elliott Harris - UN Assistant Secretary-General and Chief Economist, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs • Martin Skancke - Chairman, Principles of Responsible Investment • Moderator: Brandee McHale - Director, Corporate Citizenship, Citi and President, Citi Foundation |
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11:20-11:40 | Principles for Responsible Banking • Simone Dettling - Banking Team Lead, UNEP FI |
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11:40-13:00 | CEOs Panel Discussion: Transforming Banking Launch of the UNEP FI consultation on the development of global Responsible Banking Principles, alongside an ambitious target-setting and accountability framework. The banking industry represented by leading UNEP FI member banks worldwide have set out to develop global Responsible Banking Principles that will define the banking industry’s role and responsibilities in aligning financing with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Agreement on Climate Change to help shape a sustainable future. Confirmed speakers: • Herbert Wigwe - CEO, Access Bank • Tengku Dato' Sri Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz - CEO, CIMB Group • Shu Gu - President, ICBC • Joshua Oigara - CEO, KCB Group • TP Nchocho - CEO, Land Bank • Casper von Koskull - CEO, Nordea • Christos Megalou - CEO, Piraeus Bank • Cho Yong-byoung - CEO and Chairman, Shinhan Financial Group • Frédéric Oudéa - CEO, Société Générale • Peter Blom - CEO, Triodos Bank • Chultemiin Munkhtsetseg - Chairwoman, Golomt Bank •Moderator:Brian Caplen - Editor, The Banker |
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13:00-14:00 | Lunch Venue: Grand Auditorium Foyer |
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14:00 -14:15 | Keynote Venue: Grand Auditorium • Frédéric Oudéa - CEO, Société Générale Watch recording here. |
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14:15-15:05 | Rethinking Impact to Finance the Sustainable Development Goals Launch Venue: Grand Auditorium What and where exactly is the financing gap for the SDGs? What is the nature and scope of SDG financing flows today and what do they tell us about the barriers to financing the SDGs and how we might break through them? Rethinking Impact to Finance the SDGs, UNEP FI’s position paper on the topic, offers a deeply innovative analysis of these burning questions, highlighting the as yet underexploited potential for reducing the SDG bill, crowding in the private sector, and optimizing public spending. The paper points to the financial value of positive impacts and the potential for developing business and public-private partnerships where impacts are no longer an externality but a core part of the business and financing model. The paper explores the concepts of an impact-based economy and reiterates the case for a common language and a holistic approach to impact analysis and management. Opening remarks: • Ligia Noronha - Director of UN Environment's Economy Division Panellists: • Andrew Parry - Co-Chair of the PI Initiative and Head of Sustainable Investing, Hermes • Thierry Boisnon - CEO of Nokia France and VP, Head of Strategy & Portfolio Management, Global Services Nokia • Hamid Tawfiki - CEO, CDG Capital • Moderator: Nina dos Santos - Europe Editor, CNN |
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15:05 - 15:20 | Keynote Venue: Grand Auditorium • Bruno Le Maire - Minister of Economy and Finance, France |
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15:20-15:40 | France Roadmap for Sustainable Finance Keynote Venue: Grand Auditorium Introduction by Martin Skancke - Chair, Principles for Responsible Investment • Brune Poirson - Secretary of State, Ministry for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition • Moderator: Philippe Zaouati - CEO, Mirova & Chair, Finance for Tomorrow |
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15:40-16:00 | Aligning the Financial Systems with the Climate Goals of the Paris Agreement Leaders Dialogue Venue: Grand Auditorium Delivering on the Paris Agreement means effectively limiting the global mean temperature increase to well below 2*C. This in turn means decarbonising the global economy and reaching Net Zero in greenhouse gas emissions early in the second half of this century. The global society will only deliver on Paris if a new level of political ambition among Governments is matched by an equal level of commitment & determination from the world’s corporate and financial communities. How can financial institutions now – by issuing climate-related strategies and setting climate-related targets - help unlock a virtuous cycle of climate action that will enlist all other stakeholders and ultimately move the needle? • Guenter Thallinger - Member of Board of Management and Chairman of ESG Board, Allianz SE • Laszlo Varro - Chief Economist, International Energy Agency • Moderator: Eric Usher - Head, UNEP FI |
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16:05-16:25 | Coffee break | |
16:25 - 17:25 | Exploring Natural Capital Opportunities, Risks, and Exposure Launch and Panel Discussion Venue: Grand Auditorium Enabling economic growth and safeguarding human well-being both depend on nature’s ability to continue to provide goods and services such as clean water and flood protection. Yet little is known about the link between the health of environmental assets and the economy, such as the risk from disruption of these services to businesses, their supply chains and the portfolios of financial institutions. The Natural Capital Finance Alliance, a joint initiative between UNEP FI and Global Canopy Programme, will launch an online tool that enables users to identify and assess natural capital risk globally and a framework for banks to integrate natural capital risks into financial risk management. Opening Remarks • Livia Leu Agosti - Swiss Ambassador to France • Marc Abadie - Chairman, CDC Biodiversité • Madeleine Ronquest - Head of Environmental and Social Risk Management, First Rand • Liselotte Arni - Managing Director, Head Environmental and Social Risk, UBS • Raffaello Cervigni - Lead Environmental Economist, WAVES Program, World Bank Group • Mark Tercek - CEO, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) • Moderator: Dr. Richard Mattison - CEO, Trucost S&P |
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17:25-17:55 | From aspiration to transformation: How the PSI is shaping the Global Sustainable Insurance Agenda Leaders Dialogue Venue: Grand Auditorium Endorsed by the UN Secretary-General and insurance industry CEOs, the Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI) were launched at the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development. Since then, the PSI has served as a global framework for the insurance industry to address environmental, social and governance risks and opportunities. Moreover, the PSI has led to the largest collaborative between the UN and the insurance industry, highlighting how the insurance industry—as risk managers, insurers and investors—can contribute to building resilient, inclusive and sustainable communities and economies. What are key achievements, priorities and challenges for the PSI and its members? How is the PSI shaping the global sustainable insurance agenda and driving action and ambition to help realise the aims of global policy frameworks such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Paris Agreement on Climate Change, and Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction? • Denis Duverne - Chairman of the Board, AXA Group • Julie Batch - Chief Customer Officer, IAG • Dave Jones - California Insurance Commissioner • Moderator:Butch Bacani - Insurance Lead, UNEP FI |
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17:55-18:00 | Closing Remarks |
08:00-08:30 | Registration and Networking | |
Plenary Sessions at the Grand Auditorium | ||
08:30-08:35 | Welcome Venue: Grand Auditorium • Martina Macpherson - President, Network for Sustainable Financial Markets |
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08:35-09:00 | Lightning Round: Innovative Industry Approaches to Environmental and Social Challenges Round 1: Africa & the Middle East Championing change: An FI perspective • Dr. Dalia Abd El Kader - Director of Marketing and Communications, Arab Africa International Bank Round 2: Asia Pacific Japan’s Sustainable Real Estate Investment at a glance • Ryuichi Horie - Co-founder and CEO, CSR Design Green Investment Advisory, Co., Ltd • Tadateru Kitaoka - Head of Research and Marketing Department, Mitsubishi Corp.- UBS Realty Inc • Fumiki Kondo - Senior Managing Executive Officer, Nomura Real Estate Asset Management Co., Ltd. • Hideki Kobayashi - Head of ESG Office, Japan Real Estate Asset Management Co., Ltd • Masato Ito - Associate General Manager, Head of Sustainable Property Promotion Team Real Estate Advisory Department Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited Round 3: Latin America & Caribbean UNEP FI Members Exchange • Maria Eugenia Sosa Taborda - Sustainability Manager. ITAU Unibank Round 4: North America Sustainable Finance Agenda in Canada • Barbara Turley-McIntyre - Vice President, Sustainability & Citizenship, The Co-operators Group Limited |
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9:05-9:15 | Keynote Venue: Grand Auditorium • Eric Usher - Head, UNEP FI |
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9:15-10:05 | INTEGRATION Implementing the Recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures High-Level Plenary Venue: Grand Auditorium Three years on from the ground-breaking UN Paris Agreement on Climate Change, UNEP FI’s banking, insurance and investment members are collaborating to develop the skills, capacities and tools required to more fully grasp the risks and opportunities presented by climate change. As such they are piloting implementation of the recommendations of the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) to assess and disclose how their organisations are likely to be impacted by climate change and how they plan to respond. What have these pioneering efforts of forward-looking, scenario-based assessments revealed so far? Which barriers and bottlenecks need to be removed to enable wide-spread, routine and TCFD-aligned disclosures by a critical mass of both corporate and financial actors? Ultimately, what can the TCFD deliver, and what can it not? • Richard Cantor - Chief Risk Officer, Moody's Corporation • Ernst Rauch - Chief Climate and Geo Scientist, Munich Re • Kristin Halvorsen - Director, CICERO • Maarten Biermans - Head of ESG Policy, Rabobank • Remco Fischer - Climate Lead, UNEP FI • Moderator:Jane Ambachtsheer - Global Head of Sustainability, BNP Asset Management |
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10:05-10:20 | Leaders Dialogue: Sustainable Finance Opportunities Venue: Grand Auditorium • Stanislas Pottier - Chief Responsible Investment Officer, Amundi • Nicholas Ptaff - Senior Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA • Moderator: Maithreyi Seetharaman - Anchor and Executive Editor, Euronews |
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10:20- 10:35 | Leaders dialogue: Sustainable Finance Challenges Venue: Grand Auditorium • Dr. Rachel Melson - UK/Europe Director, Tobacco Free Portfolios • Brandee McHale - Director, Corporate Citizenship, Citi; President, Citi Foundation and GSC Chair, UNEP FI • Moderator: Maithreyi |
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10:35-10:50 | Break and transition to Parallel Sessions | |
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10:50-11:50 | PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT Mainstreaming holistic impact analysis to drive positive impact in finance Parallel Session 1 Venue: Grand Auditorium Practice-sharing about frameworks and tools financial institutions use to analyze impacts in the context of mainstream capital markets and products. Practitioners will discuss their approaches to analyzing both positive and negative impacts of underlying assets for a range of financial instruments, products and services. A technical session of the Positive Impact initiative. • Ghizlaine Nourlil - Sustainable Finance Manager, BMCE • Andrew Parry - Co-Chair of the PI Initiative and Head of Sustainable Investing, Hermes • Denis Childs - Co-Chair of the PI Initiative & Head of Positive Impact Finance and Environmental and Social Advisory, Société Générale • Careen Abb - Positive Impact Lead, UNEP FI • Will Martindale - Director of Policy and Research, PRI •Moderator: Hugh Wheelan - Managing Editor, Responsible Investor |
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10:50-11:50 | SYSTEMS CHANGE The Next Frontier for Investor Duties Parallel Session 2 Venue: Salon D’Honneur This session will explore recent developments in key markets to support and mandate the consideration of ESG factors in investment decision making processes. It will discuss the raising expectations on investors to align with climate and sustainable development objectives. The speakers will also debate on the relationship between investor duties and the need for investors to take account of the sustainability impact of their investment activities. • David Rouch - Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer • Hanzo van Beusekom - Member of the Executive Board, Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) • Puja Jain - Partner Global Equities, Generation Investment Management • Gerard Fehrenbach - Senior Advisor Responsible Investment, PGGM • Moderator: Elodie Feller - Investment Lead, UNEP FI |
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10:50-11:50 | INTEGRATION Exploring Natural Capital Opportunities, Risks and Exposure in practice Parallel Session 3 Venue: Salon Napoleon This Natural Capital Finance Alliance technical session will provide training on how to use the newly launched framework for integrating natural capital risk into banking portfolios, including lessons from piloting banks and working through a case-study in teams. Potential topics include potential applications of combining big data on natural capital and credit systems. • Rosemary Bissett - Head of Sustainability Governance & Risk, National Australia Bank • Eric Cochard - Head of Sustainable Development, Credit Agricole CIB • Will Evison - Director, PwC • Annelisa Grigg - Principal Specialist, Business and Biodiversity, UN Environment WCMC • Mark Gough - Executive Director, Natural Capital Coalition •Session Leaders: Niki Mardas - Executive Director, Global Canopy |
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11:50-12:00 | Break and Transition between sessions | |
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12:00-13:00 | SYSTEM CHANGE Making finance and insurance inclusive Parallel Session 4 Venue: Grand Auditorium 193 member states that adopted the 2030 Agenda committed to “leave no one behind” in their implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This means ensuring sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth and social progress. Financial inclusion is positioned as an enabler of the SDGS, and features as a target in eight of the 17 goals. UN Environment’s Insurance Development Goals for Cities launched with ICLEI in June 2018 aim to contribute to achieving SDG 11 to make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. Insurance Development Goal 3 is to develop solutions for unserved people and enterprises. Possible actions include offering risk assessment and risk management services and developing insurance solutions for unserved people and enterprises; and investing in companies that promote social and financial inclusion, such as those that provide inclusive financial services—including loans, insurance, savings and pensions for low-income people and micro, small and medium enterprises—and companies that generate positive social impact. • Arif Khan - CEO, IDLC Finance • Amy Clarke - Partner & Co-Founder, Tribe Impact Capital • Ekhosuehi Iyahen - Secretary General, Insurance Development Forum (IDF) • Sasja Beslik - Head of Group Sustainable Finance, Nordea • Ana Lilian Vega Trejo - President, Banco de Fomento Agropecuario • Moderator: Nick Robins - Professor of Practice in Sustainable Finance, LSE |
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12:00-13:00 | PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT Hothouse Earth: The case for ecosystem resilience Parallel Session 5 Venue: Salon D’Honneur Imagine the Amazon rainforest as a dry savanna or widespread death of coral reefs. Recent scientific evidence suggests that ecosystem hotspots critical to the Earth’s climate resilience can tip into new stable states, and that a ”domino-like cascade of melting ice, warming seas, shifting currents and dying forests could tilt the Earth into a “hothouse” state beyond which human efforts to reduce emissions will be increasingly futile” (Source: The Guardian). These hotspots include the Amazon and Boreal forests, coral reefs and the Antarctic Ice Sheet. This session will present the scientific evidence of Hothouse Earth and discuss how financing decisions can create risks to global portfolios and provide solutions through conservation finance and other innovations to increase resilience in these hotspots. • Beatrice Crona - PhD, Executive Director, Academy Program on Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences • Daniella Carreira - Senior Manager, Environmental Issues, Principles for Responsible Investment • Sylvia Wisniwski - Managing Director, Finance in Motion • Sylvain Goupille - Founder and Managing Director, Mirova Natural Capital and Althelia Funds • Moderator: Peter Cripps - Editor, Environmental Finance |
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12:00-13:00 | INTEGRATION Progress and Innovation toward a Low-carbon buildings sector Parallel Session 6 Venue: Salon Napoleon Insights into potential to deliver significant, cost-effective emission reductions from the buildings sector to contribute to near-term and longer-term goals towards a low-carbon transition. The session will provide an update on the sectors’ progress in improving energy productivity and investing in low-carbon construction and retrofits - showing significant gains but short of projections of what is required. It will highlight specific initiatives to which owners/investors, lenders, policy-makers and other value chain participants can take part in including science-based targets; building passports; and commitments for zero-emission buildings. • Frank Hovorka - Director of Strategy, Quartus • Josien Piek - Head of EMEA, GRESB • Brian Dean - Energy Efficiency, International Energy Agency • Joe Pigott - Associate Director, Carbon Credentials • Moderator: Anna Murray - Vice President, Sustainability, Bentall Kennedy |
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13:00-14:00 | Lunch Venue: Grand Auditorium Foyer |
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Parallel Sessions: Round 7-9 |
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14:00-15:15 | INTEGRATION Managing both sides of the house: ESG integration in the insurance industry Parallel Session 7 Venue: Grand Auditorium Since insurance companies are both insurers and investors, integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues entails addressing both insurance and investment activities. Jointly organised by UN Environment’s Principles for Sustainable Insurance Initiative (PSI) and the French Federation of Insurers (FFA), this session will highlight latest thinking, practices and initiatives by the PSI, FFA and their members in addressing ESG issues—such as climate change, natural disasters, ecosystem degradation, pollution, health risks, and human rights violations—in core insurance and investment strategies and operations. The session will also explore the PSI’s pioneering work to develop global ESG guidance tailored for the insurance industry, and how the PSI can work together with insurance associations, governments and regulators, civil society organisations, and other key stakeholders in addressing ESG issues. • Arthur Chabrol - Deputy CEO, Aviva France • Antoine Lissowski - CEO, CNP Assurances and Chair, Economic & Financial Committee, French Federation of Insurers (FFA) • Martin Weymann - Head Sustainability, Emerging & Political Risk Management & Director, Group Risk Management, Swiss Re • Matthias Seewald - CIO and Member of Executive Committee, Allianz • Bernard Delas - Vice-President, French Prudential Supervisory Authority (ACPR) • Margaret Kuhlow - Finance Practice Leader, WWF International • Moderator:Butch Bacani - Insurance Lead, UNEP FI |
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14.00-15:15 | PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT Green Tagging and Technology to Scale Up Green, Inclusive Lending Parallel Session 8 Venue: Salon d'honneur With energy efficiency representing nearly 75% of the investment gap for the realization of the European 2030 climate and energy targets it represents an untapped potential in the USD trillions globally. However, financial institutions are often not aware of the contribution they are already making to energy efficiency due to the integrated nature of EE improvements in mainstream mortgages or other lending activities. This session will focus on the practice of green tagging, which is a systematic process to attach, for example, the energy efficiency performance of real estate collateral to mortgages and thereby identify the risk and value improvements of energy efficiency across banks’ lending portfolios. Opening • Nick Robins - Professor of Practice in Sustainable Finance, LSE • Tatiana Bosteels - Director, Responsible Property Investment and Sustainability, Hermes Investment Management • Fredrik Nilzen - Group Head of Sustainability, Swedbank • Paula Rey Garcia - Head of Buildings and Finance Team, DG Energy, European Commission • Marine de Bazelaire - Head of Sustainability, HSBC Continental Europe • Louis Douady - Head of Environmental and Social Responsibility, Natixis • Moderator:Peter Sweatman - CEO, Climate Strategy and Partners |
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14:00-15:15 | PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT How can finance contribute to fixing our broken food systems? Parallel Session 9 Venue: Salon Napoleon A number of scientific reports by the IPCC and articles in Nature and other journals point to the massive impact that unsustainable land use practices currently have in terms of deforestation, species loss, climate change, and the effects on the most vulnerable communities and rural smallholders who are at present mostly excluded from global agricultural value chains. The speed with which we can transition the way we produce food, but also how we consume and finance it, are among the most defining challenges of the 21st century. UN Environment has initiated a number of projects and finance facilities with partners that aim to accelerate the transition to deforestation-free and inclusive commodity production that addresses the social and environmental problems currently associated with commodities such as palm oil, soy, beef, rubber and timber, in a way that is still commercially viable. This requires an integrated approach that focuses on production (supply), consumption (demand) and finance to fix our currently unsustainable and broken food system. Initiatives such as the Good Growth Partnership, the Green Fund, the Tropical Landscapes Finance Facility and AGRI3 are examples of facilities, projects and funds that aim to accelerate the change towards sustainable land use. This session focuses on the role of governments and the finance sector to move from commitments to action. Hear first-hand from politicians, investors and a microfinance institution what they are doing at present, but also what challenges they encounter to scale up solutions direly needed. The audience is invited throughout the session to actively participate with probing questions. • Fernando Alberto Silva Facetti - Senator, Paraguay Government • Pierre Rousseau - Strategic Advisor for Sustainable Business, BNP Paribas • Antione Vallier - CDC Biodiversité • Anne Laure Asboth - Head of the Business Development Unit, Advans • Michael Schlup - Chief Operating Officer, Sail Ventures • Moderator: Ivo Mulder - Head, Land Use Finance, UN Environment |
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15:15-15:45 | Break | |
Plenary Sessions at the Grand Auditorium | ||
15:45-16:40 | SYSTEMS CHANGE Implementing the EU Action Plan for Sustainable Finance High Level Plenary Venue: Grand Auditorium In response to the High-Level Expert Group (HLEG) on Sustainable Finance, the European Commission released an action plan for financing sustainable growth in March 2018. In May 2018 the Commission subsequently adopted a package of measures implementing several key actions announced in its action plan. The Commission’s Action Plan on Sustainable Finance is considered as one of the most advanced policy and regulatory initiative both in its ambition and substance. This panel will discuss EU’s ambition and progress from the Technical Expert Group. • Molly Scott Cato - MEP Shadow Rapporteur on Disclosures and Benchmarks Regulations • Nancy Saich - Chief Climate Change Expert, European Investment Bank • Martin Spolc - Head of Unit, DG Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital. Markets Union, European Commission • Aila Aho - Executive Advisor, Sustainability, Nordea • Moderator: Nathan Fabian - Chief Responsible Investment Officer, PRI |
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16:40-17:35 | SYSTEMS CHANGE Roadmaps for Financing Sustainable Growth High Level Plenary Venue: Grand Auditorium Several countries are implementing national roadmaps for sustainable finance that aim to provide an integrated approach to accelerate the transition towards a sustainable financial system. This session will provide an overview of some initiatives around the world that are at different stages of developing and implementing sustainable finance roadmaps for public and private financial sector stakeholders. It will explore critical aspects of frameworks to systematically integrate sustainability across banking, insurance and investment, and to redirect capital flows for the global shift to an inclusive, resilient and low-carbon economy. • Dr. Ma Jun - Director of the Center for Finance and Development, Tsinghua National Institute of Financial Research - Guidelines for Greening China’s Financial System • Maiko Okuno - Chief Analyst Environment and Energy Dept. Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting Co.,Ltd. (MURC) • Jamie Fergusson - Global Manager, IFC Sustainability Leadership, IFC-supported Sustainable Banking Network • Greg Medcraft - Director-Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs, OECD • Tom Theobald - Deputy CEO, Luxembourg For Finance • Moderator: Jacki Johnson - Group Executive, People, Performance & Reputation, Insurance Australia Group Limited |
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17:35-17:50 | Keynote Venue: Grand Auditorium • Jean Lemierre - Chairman, BNP Paribas |
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17:50-18:00 | Closing Remarks Venue: Grand Auditorium • Eric Usher - Head, UNEP FI |
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19:00 - 22:00 | Gala Dinner Venue: La Nef |
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Climate Finance Day After the success of the three editions of Climate Finance Day; in 2015 at UNESCO Headquarters to initiate the mobilization of the financial sector ahead of COP21, in 2016 in Casablanca to move forward especially with Africa just before COP22, and in 2017 to accelerate actions on the eve of the One Planet Summit held to celebrate the second anniversary of the Paris Agreement, this Paris rendez-vous will annually take stock of the key achievements and the most innovative solutions on green finance issues. The 4th edition of Climate Finance Day will build on the steady and growing financial sector mobilization worldwide and on the political momentum following the Paris Agreement and the EU Action Plan on Sustainable Finance. The event is the waypoint to take stock on private and public actors commitments and major achievements on green and climate finance issues. This year, it will focus on the progress made towards the greening of the global financial system. The event will also highlight the main issues for climate finance in Asia and especially in China. It will also showcase the development and outreach of innovative products, asset classes, and business lines in private equity and green loans. Climate Finance Day is the annual flagship event of Finance for Tomorrow, which aims to mobilise the international financial sector on the fight against climate change and to showcase innovative solution provided both by the public and private market players. For more information, please go to www.climatefinanceday.com |
Marc Abadie
Chairman, CDC Biodiversite
Careen Abb
SDGs and Impact Lead
Alia Aho
Executive Advisor, Sustainability, Nordea
Jane Ambachtsheer
Global Head of Sustainability, BNP Paribas Asset Management
Liselotte Arni
Managing Director, Head Environmental and Social Risk, UBS
Anne Laure Asboth
Head of the Business Development Unit, Advans
Tengku Zafrul Aziz
Group CEO, CIMB Group
Butch Bacani
Insurance Lead
Julie Batch
Chief Customer Officer, Insurance Australia Group (IAG)
Marine de Bazelaire
Head of Sustainability, HSBC Continental Europe
Sasja Beslik
Head of Group Sustainable Finance, Nordea
Maarten Biermans
Head of ESG Policy, Rabobank
Rosemary Bissett
Head of Sustainability Governance & Risk, National Australia Bank
Peter Blom
CEO of Triodos Bank
Thierry Boisnon
CEO of Nokia France and VP, Head of Strategy & Portfolio Management, Global Services Nokia
Tatiana Bosteels
Director Responsibility and Head of Responsible Property Investment at Hermers Investment Management
Thomas Buberl
CEO of AXA Group
Richard Cantor
Chief Risk Officer, Moody’s Corporation & Chief Credit Officer, Moody’s Investors Service
Brian Caplen
Editor, The Banker
Danielle Carreira
Senior Manager, Environmental Issues, Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)
Raffaello Cervigni
Lead Environmental Economist, WAVES Program, World Bank,
Arthur Chabrol
Deputy CEO, Aviva France
Denis Childs
Co-Chair of the PI Initiative & Head of Positive Impact Finance and Environmental and Social Advisory, Société Générale
Yong-byoung Cho
Chairman and CEO, Shinhan Financial Group
Amy Clarke
Partner & Co-Founder, Tribe Impact Capital
Eric Cochard
Head of Sustainable Development, Credit Agricole
Peter Cripps
Editor of Environmental Finance
Beatrice Crona
Executive Director, Academy Program on Global Economic Dynamics and Biosphere, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Chip Cunliffe
Director of Sustainable Development, AXA XL
Brian Dean
Energy Efficiency at International Energy Association
Bernard Delas
Vice-President, ACPR
Simone Dettling
Co-Head of Banking (on maternity leave)
Nina dos Santos
Europe Editor, CNN
Louis Douady
Head of Environmental and Social Responsibility, Natixis
Denis Duverne
Chairman of the Board of Directors of AXA Group
Will Evison
Director, PwC
Nathan Fabian
Chief Responsible Investment Officer, PRI
Gerard Fehrenbach
Senior Advisor Responsible Investment, PGGM
Elodie Feller
Global Policy Lead
Jamie Fergusson
Global Manager, IFC Sustainability Leadership, IFC-supported Sustainable Banking Network
Remco Fischer
Climate Lead
Mark Gough
Executive Director, Natural Capital Coalition
Sylvain Goupille
Managing Director of Althelia funds (Mirova Natural Capital ltd)
Annelisa Grigg
Principal Specialist, Business and Biodiversity, UN Environment WCMC
Shu Gu
President, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC)
Geeda Haddad
Regional Coordinator for Middle East and North Africa, UNEP Finance Initiative
Kristin Halvorsen
Director, CICERO
Elliott Harris
Former Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development and Chief Economist, United Nations
Ryuichi Horie
Co-founder & CEO, CSR Design Green Investment Advisory
Frank Hovorka
Director of Strategy, Quartus
Sabina Timco Iacazzi
Lead, Social Issues and Human Rights, UNEP Finance Initiative
Masato Ito
Associate General Manager, Head of Sustainable Property Promotion Team Real Estate Advisory Department Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited.
Ekhosuehi Iyahen
Secretary General, Insurance Development Forum (IDF)
Puja Jain
Partner, Generation Investment Management
Jacki Johnson
Co-Chair, Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative
Dave Jones
California Insurance Commissioner
Ma Jun
Director of the Center for Finance and Development, Tsinghua National Institute of Financial Research
Ma Jun
Director of the Center for Finance and Development, Tsinghua National Institute of Financial Research
Dr Dalia Abdel Kader
Chief Sustainability Officer, Commercial International Bank (CIB), Egypt
Arif Khan
CEO & MD of IDLC Finance Limited
Tadateru Kitaoka
Head of Research and Marketing Department, Mitsubishi Corp.- UBS Realty Inc
Hideki Kobayashi
Head of ESG Office, Japan Real Estate Asset Management Co., Ltd
Fumiki Kondo
Senior Managing Executive Officer, Nomura Real Estate Asset Management Co., Ltd.
Masamichi Kono
Deputy Secretary-General, OECD
Margaret Kuhlow
Finance Practice Leader, WWF International
Jean Lemierre
President, BNP Paribas
Livia Leu Agosti
Swiss Ambassador to France
Antoine Lissowski
CEO, CNP Assurances and Chair, Economic & Financial Committee of the French Federation of Insurers (FFA)
Martina Macpherson
SVP, Moody's & President, Network for Sustainable Financial Markets
Bruno Le Maire
Minister of Economy and Finance, France
Niki Mardas
Executive Director, Global Canopy
Will Martindale
Director of Policy and Research, Principles for Responsible Investment
Richard Mattison
CEO of Trucost S&P
Brandee McHale
Director, Corporate Citizenship, Citi and President, Citi Foundation
Greg Medcraft
Director, OECD Directorate on Financial and Enterprise Affairs
Christos Megalou
CEO, Piraeus Bank
Rachel Melson
UK/Europe Director, Tobacco Free Portfolios
Hiro Mizuno
Executive Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer, GPIF Japan
Hiro Mizuno
Chief Investment Officer, GPIF
Ivo Mulder
Head, Climate Finance Unit, UN Environment (UNEP)
Chultemiin Munkhtsetseg
Chairwoman, Golomt Bank
Anna Murray
Vice President, Sustainability, Bentall Kennedy
Tshokolo Petrus Nchocho
CEO of Land Bank
Fredrik Nilzén
Head of Group Sustainability at Swedbank
Ligia Noronha
UN Assistant Secretary-General and Head of UNEP, New York Office
Ghizlaine Nourlil
Sustainable Finance Manager, BMCE
Joshua Oigara
Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, KCB Group
Maiko OKUNO
Chief Analyst in Environment and Energy Dept, Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting Co.,Ltd. (MURC)
Frédéric Oudéa
CEO of Société Générale
Andrew Parry
Head of Sustainable Investing, Hermes
Josien Piek
Head of EMEA at GRESB
Joe Pigott
Associate Director, Carbon Credentials
Brune Poirson
Secretary of State, France
Stanislas Pottier
Chief Responsible Investment Officer, Amundi
Nicholas Ptaff
Senior Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA
Ernst Rauch
Chief Climate and Geo Scientist, Munich Re
Paula Rey Garcia
Team Leader of European Commission
Nick Robins
Professor of Practice in Sustainable Finance, LSE
Augustin de Romanet
Chairman of Paris Europlace
Madeleine Ronquest
Head of Environmental and Social Risk, Climate Change, FirstRand Group
David Rouch
Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Pierre Rousseau
Senior Strategic Advisor for Sustainable Business, BNP Paribas
Nancy Saich
Senior Adviser in Climate and Environment of European Investment Bank
Michael Schlup
Chief Operating Officer, Sail Ventures
Molly Scott Cato
Member, European Parliament
Maithreyi Seetharaman
Anchor and Executive Editor, Euronews
Matthias Seewald
CIO and Member of Executive Committee, Allianz
Fernando Alberto Silva Facetti
National Senator of Authentic Radical Liberal Party
Martin Skancke
Chairman, Principles of Responsible Investment
Martin Spolc
Head of Sustainable Finance and Fintech Unit, European Commission
Peter Sweatman
CEO of Climate Strategy and Partners
Hamid Tawfiki
CEO of CDG Capital
Mark Tercek
CEO of The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
Günther Thallinger
SE Board Member, Allianz & Chair, UN convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance
Tom Theobald
Deputy CEO, Luxembourg For Finance
Satya Tripathi
Assistant Secretary of General UN Environment
Barbara Turley-McIntyre
Vice President, Sustainability & Citizenship, The Co-operators Group Limited
Eric Usher
Head, UNEP Finance Initiative
Antonie Vallier
CDC Biodiversité
Liesel van Ast
Membership and Regional Co-ordination Manager
Hanzo van Beusekom
Member of the Executive Board, Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM)
Laszlo Varro
Chief Economist, International Energy Agency
Ana Lilian Vega Trejo
President, Banco de Fomento Agropecuario
Casper von Koskull
President and Group Chief Executive Officer of Nordea
Martin Weyman
Head Sustainability, Emerging & Political Risk Management & Director, Group Risk Management, Swiss Re
Hugh Wheelan
Managing Editor, Responsible Investor
Herbert Wigwe
CEO of Access Bank
Sylvia Wisniwski
Managing Director, Finance in Motion
Philippe Zaouati
CEO of Mirova, Chair of Finance for Tomorrow