Why should you attend?
Join CeFPro® Events at Sustainable Finance Europe on June 10-11 in London. Ensure you stay ahead of the curve in a sustainability focused landscape by deep-diving into best practices to mitigate associated risks.
As we transition into a more sustainable future, explore the shift in ensuring a low-carbon economy through developing and adapting internal infrastructures. Sustainable Finance Europe is the must-attend summit to enhance your skills.
Gain insights from 25+ industry professionals as they discuss methods and challenges faced within sustainable finance. Join panel discussions and detailed presentations, split between 6 networking breaks and a complimentary cocktail hour to continue the conversation.
Key themes for the 2024 Summit
- REGULATIONS:
Stay ahead of the curve with the emerging regulations and effectively implementing them into sustainable frameworks
- GREENWASHING:
Managing uncertainties in mitigating greenwashing risks in a fast-evolving regulatory landscape
- TRANSITION FINANCE:
Navigating the risks and opportunities within transition finance
- NATURE & BIODIVERSITY:
Effective practices to implement nature and biodiversity into sustainable frameworks
- GEOPOLITICAL RISKS:
Overlooking impacts of the geopolitical landscape and the impact on sustainable finance
- BAU:
Successfully implementing sustainability into BAU through prioritization
- SUSTAINABLE INVESTING:
Leveraging opportunities and best practice into sustainably investing
- DATA:
Managing lack of data and developing effective programs to manage data complexities
Hear from Sustainable Finance industry experts…
Join us for a timely and carefully curated agenda across 2 days.
Our agenda ensures a deep dive into timely and topical issues within Sustainable Finance. Through presentations, panel discussions, and live Q&As, we ensure quality facilitation of engagement and learning.
Learn from industry thought-leaders as they share their expertise.
By becoming more proficient in the topic, you can return to your department with newly developed ideas and skills. With our 25+ industry leaders, this is the perfect opportunity to maximize learning.
Continue conversations and connect with peers with 7+ hours of networking.
Take advantage of multiple networking opportunities across the two days, including a complimentary drinks reception; this is an excellent opportunity to grow your network and build meaningful industry connections.
Key speakers for Sustainable Finance
Marina Marecos
Executive Director, Sustainable Finance
Mizuho
Celia Lambert-Alcantara
Head of Sustainable Finance/ESG Compliance
Credit Agricole
Myles McCarthy
Head of Sustainability
Close Brothers
Aleksandra Schellenberg
Global Head Legal Sustainable Finance
UBS
Phil Cliff
Director, Sustainable Investing
Fidelity International
Saad Malik
Sustainability Director
Lloyds Banking Group
David Carlin
Head of Climate Risk
UNEP FI
Vesselina Haralampieva
Head of Sustainable Fnance Governance and Regulations
EBRD
Tarunima Arora
Executive Director, Senior Risk Officer Sustainable Finance
Standard Chartered Bank
Sharon Bloemendal
Global Head of Sustainability Management
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Session previews and related insights
Get an insight of what to expect from the Congress with our past and present speaker session previews.
Nature risk and biodiversity: Integrating environmental sustainability into organizations
Nature risk and biodiversity: Integrating environmental sustainability into organizations Carl Moxley, Group Climate Director, Legal & General Below is an insight into what can be expected from Carl's session at Risk Evolve 2024. {{ vc_btn: title=Find+out+more+about+CeFPro%27s+Risk+Evolve+2024&style=outline-custom&outline_custom_color=%23001c64&outline_custom_hover_background=%23001c64&outline_custom_hover_text=%23ffffff&link=url%3Ahttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.cefpro.com%252Fforthcoming-events%252Frisk-evolve%252F }} The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the thought leader as an individual, and are not
Reviewing the continued evolution of the regulatory landscape and the role of the regulator
Reviewing the continued evolution of the regulatory landscape and the role of the regulator Arthur Carabia, Director of ESG Policy Research, Morningstar Sustainalytics Below is an insight into what was spoken about in Arthur's session at ESG Europe 2024. {{ vc_btn: title=Find+out+about+CeFPro%27s+Sustainable+Finance+2024&style=outline-custom&outline_custom_color=%23001c64&outline_custom_hover_background=%23001c64&outline_custom_hover_text=%23ffffff&link=url%3Ahttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.cefpro.com%252Fforthcoming-events%252Fsustainable-finance-europe%252F }} The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the thought
Reviewing changes within climate risk and inclusion within risk management practices and stress testing
Reviewing changes within climate risk and inclusion within risk management practices and stress testing Rocco Fanciullo, Head of Liquidity Risk Management, UniCredit SpA Below is an insight into what can be expected from Rocco's session at Risk Evolve 2024. {{ vc_btn: title=Find+out+more+about+CeFPro%27s+Risk+Evolve+2024&style=outline-custom&outline_custom_color=%23001c64&outline_custom_hover_background=%23001c64&outline_custom_hover_text=%23ffffff&link=url%3Ahttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.cefpro.com%252Fforthcoming-events%252Frisk-evolve%252F }} The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the thought
Adhering to multiple disclosure requirements across different standards and jurisdiction
Adhering to multiple disclosure requirements across different standards and jurisdiction Vesselina Haralampieva, Associate Director, Senior Counsel, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Below is an insight into what can be expected from Vesselina' session at ESG Europe Summit 2024. The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the thought leader as an individual,
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Agenda
8:00 – 8:50
Registration and breakfast
8:50 – 9:00
Chair’s opening remarks
9:00 – 9:40
REGULATIONS
Reviewing regulatory landscape and navigating complex requirements across jurisdictions
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- Managing timelines of regulatory landscape and reporting requirements
- CSRD, SFDR, EU Taxonomy, CSDDD
- Impacts of global disclosures what constitutes best practice
- UK SSDR regulations, U.S SEC disclosures on fund labelling
- Aligning regulatory requirements under EU Taxonomy
- Best practices and lessons learned in navigating the dynamic regulatory landscape
- Managing the risk of overlapping regulations from multiple jurisdictions
- Leveraging technology and innovation in streamlining regulatory compliance processes
- Navigating supply chains through CSDDD implementation
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David Carlin, Head of Climate Risk and TCFD, UNEP FI |
9:40 – 10:30
CSRD IMPLEMENTATION – PANEL DISCUSSION
Benchmarking CSRD implementation and streamlining industry standards
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- Double materiality assessments on sustainability
- Impact on the environment and society
- Managing internal challenges for CSRD implementation
- Expertise requirements and resources availability
- Applying double materiality to align current reporting standards
- Enhancing frameworks to meet CSRD requirements
- Benchmarking industry progress and framework for meeting CSRD standards
- Understanding the complexity to implement CSRD operationally
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Celia Lambert-Alcantara, Head of Sustainable Finance/ESG Compliance, Credit Agricole |
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James Leeson, Head of Finance Sustainability, DWS Group |
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Jana Platau-Wagner, Head of Sustainability, Zurich Insurance Europe |
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Tanja Ghir, Managing Director – Head of ESG Advisory EMEA, Sustainability & Impact Banking, Barclays Investment Banking |
10:30-11:00
Morning refreshment break and networking
11:00-11:40
SFDR
Reviewing SFDR and managing challenges faced with implementation into frameworks
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- Ensuring products and investments align with EU Taxonomy targets
- Reviewing technical impacts and timelines
- Mitigating the challenges of adhering to SFRD
- Data, internal resources, and internal capacity
- Reviewing SFDR for transition finance labelling
- Engaging with SFDR amendment to stay ahead of the regulatory landscape
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Aleksandra Schellenberg, Global Head Legal Sustainable Finance, UBS |
11:40-12:20
SCALING UP
Developing internal infrastructures to comply to ‘scaling up’ requirements from regulators
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- Scaling up in a complex environment
- Identifying risks and complexities associated with scaling up
- Enhancing capacity internally for scaling up requirements
- Developing technologies in house
- Understanding role of blended finance in mitigating risks for scaling up
- Navigating efficient methodologies and practices
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Martin Spolc, Head of Unit, Sustainable Finance, European Commission tbc |
12:20-1:20
Lunch and networking break
1:20-2:00
GREENWASHING RISKS
Managing uncertainties in mitigating greenwashing risks with increased regulatory pressure
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- Building robust frameworks to prevent greenwashing.
- Treated as a traditional risk vs part of risk assessment and appetite?
- Mitigating greenwashing outside of frameworks
- Raising awareness, changing culture, and embedding this into financial institution
- Increase of ‘green hushing’ and impact to financial institutions
- Enhancing transparency to reduce regulatory scrutiny
- Greenwashing – reputational, legal, or financial risk?
- Aligning with ECB requirements in ensuring risk assessments and controls are in place
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Javier Francisco Munoz, Global Head of Conduct, Reputational Risk & ESG, Santander Corporate & Investment Banking |
2:00-2:40
DATA
Developing a data program and managing the complexities of data requirements
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- Managing lack of data needed to meet regulatory requirements.
- Enhancing transparency and robustness around data requirements
- Anticipating CSRD Implementation for corporates
- Leveraging on emerging data utilities
- Exploring on large language models
- Standardizing definition of sustainability to ensure data quality.
- Leveraging client data to build in house ESG data
- Using this to build new process, tools, and architectures.
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Marie D’Argentre, Head of Data and Transformation, BNP Paribas CIB |
2:40-3:30
TAXONOMY – PANEL DISCUSSION
Managing the multitude of global taxonomies and impact on sustainable frameworks
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- Development of taxonomy in sustainable finance
- Technicalities of taxonomy
- How to implement and apply taxonomy into BAU
- Managing complex regulations involving multiple taxonomies
- Green asset ratio implementation and navigating requirements
- Increasing transparency of taxonomy
- Effectively measuring and translating financial data
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Sharon Bloemendal, Global Head of Sustainability Management, ING Group |
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Gurprit Samrai, Associate Director, Sustainability and ESG Finance, Lloyds Banking Group |
3:30-4:00
Afternoon refreshment break
4:00-4:40
TRANSITION FINANCE
Navigating challenges associated with sustainable transition finance
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- Incorporating concept of sustainable transition into investments
- Identifying KPI’s, measuring transition, and transitioning a business to be more sustainable
- Navigating open-ended transition finance approach to mitigate greenwashing.
- Role of blended finance in transition planning
- Managing multiple approaches to transition financing
- Standardizing a definition transition finance
- Opportunities and risks within transition finance
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Tarunima Arora, Executive Director, Senior Risk Officer, Sustainable Finance, Standard Chartered Bank |
4:40-5:30
TRANSITION PLANNING – PANEL DISCUSSION
Developing comprehensive transition plans and aligning across business functions
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- Aligning best practice for transition plan frameworks
- Going beyond net zero, emission reductions and looking at social transitions.
- Transition plans aligning with net zero goals and scope 3 emissions
- Creating efficient transition plans for clients
- Meeting KPI’S to implement effective transition plans
- Developing practical transition plans applicable across the banks’ balance sheets
- Ensuring transition plans are robust and avoid greenwashing
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Phil Cliff, Director, Sustainable Investing, Fidelity International |
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Vesselina (Vessy) Haralampieva, Head of Sustainable Finance Governance, and Regulations, EBRD |
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Panagiota Batziou, Associate – Green, Social and Impact Bonds, Goldman Sachs Asset Management |
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Myles McCarthy, Head of Sustainability, Close Brothers |
5:30-5:40
Chairs closing remarks
5:40
End of day one and networking drinks reception
8:00 – 8:50
Registration and breakfast
8:50 – 9:00
Chair’s opening remarks
9:00 – 9:50
NATURE AND BIODIVERSITY – PANEL DISCUSSION
Navigating nature based finance and establishing strategies beyond assumptions
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- Implementing nature and biodiversity into sustainable frameworks
- Understanding long term impacts of nature and biodiversity
- Incorporating nature and biodiversity considerations into portfolio
- Identifying which metrics to be used
- Ensuring policies are designed to reduce impacts.
- Cooperating with TNFD guidelines to develop KPI’s.
- Defining measurements of nature and biodiversity capital
- Quantifying nature and biodiversity
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Monica Filkova, Head of Climate and Nature Investment Strategy, Aviva |
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Daniel Bressler, VP Climate and ESG Capital Markets, NatWest |
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Daniel Sacco, Investment Officer, Deutsche Bank |
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Hamid Asseffa, Head of EMEA Sustainable & Impact Investing, Invesco |
9:50 – 10:30
GEOPOLITICAL RISKS
Reviewing geopolitical landscape across jurisdictions and the impact on sustainable finance
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- Overcoming lasting implications of global issues
- Global wars, energy crisis and inflation
- Dissecting sustainability and reducing impact to developing countries
- Connection of geopolitical risks and the evolving landscape
- Reviewing geopolitical repercussions with links of sustainable products to modern day slavery
- Tackling conflicting interests with unsustainable oil and gas companies
- Reviewing complexity of geopolitical risks in line with environment
- Impacts of high interest rates on sustainable financing
10:30-11:00
Morning refreshment break and networking
11:00 – 11:40
BAU
Prioritizing sustainability and embedding into BAU in a continuously evolving landscape
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- Engaging internal teams to be more sustainable
- Training, upskilling, providing incentives.
- Climate change impacts to firms
- Proportionately upskilling team to navigate sustainability changes
- Understanding complexity of climate change and incorporating it in BAU
- g. Impact of floods to insurance premiums
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Daniel Kricheff, Director, Global Credit Risk, Sustainability, MetLife Investment Management |
11:40-12:20
SUSTAINABLE INVESTING
Leveraging opportunities and practices of sustainable investing
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- Exploring opportunities within sustainable investments
- Addressing the importance of transparency and responsible investment practices
- Investing in sustainable transport
- Electric cars, zero emission modes of transport, HGV’s and Trucks
- Risks and opportunities around decarbonization within investments
- Defining what classifies as a sustainable investment
- Shifting investments and asset management in attracting capital to green lending
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Mikael Down, Executive Director, Head of EMEA Sustainable Finance Solutions, Morgan Stanley |
12:20-1:00
SUSTAINABILIITY LINK PRODUCTS – PANEL DISCUSSION
Leveraging sustainability linked products to execute client expectations.
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- Implementing consistent approaches for robust and ambitious KPI
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions, evaluating net zero scenarios
- Structing sustainable-linked bonds and setting KPI
- Increasing ambitions internally to be more sustainable
- Collaboration between regulators and policymakers to ensure strong frameworks.
- Evolution of sustainability-linked products KPI
- Classification challenge or a taxonomy structure?
- Exploring the shift from sustainable finance to green finance
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Saad Malik, Sustainability Director, Lloyds Banking Group |
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Nina Ahlstrand, Global Head of Sustainable Finance, DNB Markets |
1:00-2:00
Lunch and networking break
1:00-2:40
CARBON CREDIT MARKET – FIRESIDE CHATE
Assessing the voluntary carbon credit market
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- Navigating lack of frameworks of carbon credits market
- Implications of a voluntary carbon credit market
- Bad credits and offsetting emissions
- Standardizing what ‘good’ looks likes in a carbon credit market
- Enhancing transparency and integrity to reduce risks
- Developing frameworks to manage carbon markets
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Chris Leeds, Head of Carbon Markets Development, Standard Chartered Bank |
2:40-3:10
COLLABORATION
Increasing collaboration across jurisdictions for standardization in sustainable finance
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- Emphasizing the need for continuous collaboration and dialogue amongst stakeholders
- Collaboration between regulators and policymakers to ensure strong frameworks
- Collaboration amongst multiple financial institutions to enhance transparency
- Enhancing competency in the market
- Attracting talents and attaining required skill sets
- Implementing a siloed approach towards sustainable finance
3:10-3:40
Afternoon refreshment break and networking break
3:40-4:20
CAPACITY BUILDING AND DEVELOPMENT
Developing capacity internally to continuously evolve with sustainable ambitions and goals
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- Managing rapid growth of market and achieving net zero by 2050
- Attracting sustainable capital to ensure they meet ambitions of organization.
- Building capacity to deploy sustainable finance projects
- Enhancing consistency to build capacity.
- Reaching clear definitions standards and verifications
- Building on regulatory and legal frameworks
- Building capacity and deepening understanding of embedding sustainability internally
4:20-5:10
FUTURE OF SUSTAINABLE FINANCE – PANEL DISCUSSION
Reviewing the future of sustainable finance and impacts on a macro scale
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- Demystifying sustainable finance
- Building capacity to ensure decision making.
- Tackling conflicting interests with unsustainable oil and gas companies
- The role of blended finance in meeting sustainability standards
- Incorporating AI into sustainable finance frameworks to enhance efficiency.
- Using automation for assisting in transition plan guidelines
- Role of AI to support net-zero policies, taxonomies, and in-house initiatives.
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Jana Platau-Wagner, Head of Sustainability, Zurich Insurance Europe |
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Ben Constable-Maxwell, Head of Impact Investing, M&G Investments |
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Aleksandra Schellenberg, Global Head Legal Sustainable Finance, UBS |
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Marina Marecos, Executive Director, Sustainable Finance, Mizuho |
5:10-5:20
Chairs closing remarks
5:20
End of Sustainable Finance Europe
2024 Speakers
Hear from subject matter experts and industry thought leaders
Nina Ahlstrand
Global Head of Sustainable Finance
DNB Markets
Tarunima Arora
Executive Director, Senior Risk Officer, Sustainable Finance
Standard Chartered Bank
Hamid Asseffar
Head of EMEA Sustainable & Impact Investing
Invesco
Panagiota Batziou
Associate – Green, Social and Impact Bonds
Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Sharon Bloemendal
Global Head of Sustainability Management,
ING Group
Daniel Bressler
VP Climate and ESG Capital Markets
NatWest
David Carlin
Head of Climate Risk and TCFD
UNEP FI
Phil Cliff
Director, Sustainable Investing
Fidelity International
Ben Constable-Maxwell
Head of Impact Investing
M&G Investments
Mikael Down
Executive Director, Head of EMEA Sustainable Finance Solutions
Morgan Stanley
Marie D’Argentre
Head of Data and Transformation
BNP Paribas CIB
Tanja Ghir
Managing Director – Head of ESG Advisory EMEA, Sustainability & Impact Banking
Barclays Investment Bank
Monica Filkova
Head of Climate and Nature Investment Strategy
Aviva
Javier Francisco Munoz
Global Head of Conduct, Reputational Risk & ESG
Santander Corporate and Investment Bank
Vesselina (Vessy) Haralampieva
Head of Sustainable Finance Governance, and Regulations
EBRD
Daniel Kricheff
Director, Global Credit Risk, Sustainability
MetLife Investment Management
Celia Lambert-Alcantara
Head of Sustainable Finance/ESG Compliance,
Credit Agricole
Chris Leeds
Head of Carbon Markets Development
Standard Chartered Bank
James Leeson,
Head of Finance Sustainability
DWS Group
Saad Malik
Sustainability Director
Lloyds Banking Group
Marina Marecos
Executive Director, Sustainable Finance
Mizuho
Myles McCarthy
Head of Sustainability
Close Brothers
Jana Platau-Wagner
Head of Sustainability
Zurich Insurance Europe
Gurprit Samrai
Associate Director, Sustainability and ESG Finance
Lloyds Banking Group
Daniel Sacco
Investment Officer
Deutsche Bank
Aleksandra Schellenberg
Global Head Legal Sustainable Finance
UBS
Martin Spolc
Head of Unit, Sustainable Finance
European Commission (tbc)
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