ESG Europe Agenda

Day Two | April 19

8:00-8:50

Registration and breakfast

8:50-9:00

Chairs opening remarks

Day two moderator: Edua Dickerson, VP, ESG & Finance Strategy, ServiceNow

9:00-9:35

LONG TERM PLANNING
Balancing short- and long-term plans and developing an implementation roadmap

  • Impact of current geopolitical environment on sustainability paths
  • Prioritizing short and long-term planning
  • Managing combination of geopolitical risk, cost of living and energy crises
  • Taking short term measures
  • Structural changes for long term planning
  • Remaining competitive in a fast-changing environment
  • Implementing regulatory expectations
  • Innovation and diversification strategies
  • Investment approaches
  • Balancing ESG with the energy crisis
  • Immediate refinancing needs

Evgeny Tyurin, Head of ESG Finance and Corporate Bank FP&A and ESG Finance, Deutsche Bank

9:35-10:10

DATA
Managing limitations in availability and accuracy of data across ESG

  • Ensuring accuracy and quality of data
  • Supervising data providers as golden source of data
  • Development of European Single Access Point (ESAP)
  • Impact of access to data on methodologies and strategy
  • Modeling with limited data
  • Measurement and modeling challenges with limited data

Marie D’Argentré, Head of ESG Data & Digital, Sustainability Center CIB, BNP Paribas CIB

10:10-10:40

Morning refreshment break and networking

10:40-11:25

SCOPE 3 – PANEL DISCUSSION
Managing implementation and data challenges within Scope 3 calculations

  • Convergence of Scope 3 calculations and ESG data
  • Managing third party reporting
  • Understanding environmental impact of supply chain
  • Measuring Scope 3 emissions
  • Differentiating between Scope 1, 2 & 3
  • Measuring upstream and downstream emissions

Maria Lombardo, Head of ESG Advisory Sustainable Finance, Standard Chartered Bank

Maureen Bray, Climate Strategy Consultancy Senior Director EMEA, 3Degrees

Rebecca Goosen, Head of Supply Chain Sustainability, Schroders

11:25-12:00

RATINGS
Developing an industry standard to produce reliable ratings to enable decisioning

  • Objectives of ESG ratings
  • Uses for financial services
  • Leveraging ESG ratings to support financial analysis
  • Impact of ratings on lending decisions
  • Aligning methodologies across agencies
  • Exploring what ESG ratings mean across organizations
  • Regulatory developments

Jean-François Veron, Managing Director, ESG and Credit Rating Advisory, Société Générale

12:00-12:45

SOCIAL
Investing to reduce social inequities is a business imperative

  • Equitable investment landscape reduces long-term systemic risks
  • Untapped markets and potential
  • Resilience during a downturn

Sanghamitra Karra, Managing Director, EMEA Head of Multicultural Innovation Lab, Morgan Stanley

12:35-1:35

Lunch break and networking

1:35-2:10

INVESTMENT
Transition investing across private and public markets

  • Current gaps in investment flows
  • Pricing of climate risk in portfolios
  • Accessing transition investing solutions
  • Incorporating and measuring decarbonisation in portfolios
  • Product innovation and climate solutions in private markets

Ewa Jackson, Managing Director, Sustainable & Transition Solutions, BlackRock

2:10-3:00

PRODUCT INNOVATION – PANEL DISCUSSION
Developing a product infrastructure to reflect expectations and changes within ESG

  • Product opportunities and challenges
  • Innovating whilst remaining compliant
  • New types of ESG funds and products
  • Portfolio analysis from an ESG perspective
  • Future of banking and data products
  • Staying competitive
  • Identifying innovative funds and products
  • Measuring and recording ESG products

Jean-Xavier Hecker, Executive Director, Head of EMEA Equity ESG & Sustainability Research, J.P. Morgan

Nosa Omoigui, CEO & Founder, Weave.AI

Catalina Secreteanu, Head of ESG Product Strategy, Morningstar sustainalytics

Kamil Kluza, CPO, Climate X

Dan Bressler, Vice President of Climate and ESG Capital Markets, Natwest

3:00-3:10

Chair’s closing remarks

3:10

End of Summit