Environmental Finance's Sustainability-Linked Products and Social Bonds day - the third of six events in the ESG in Fixed Income Global Series of conferences - ended after two days of panels, presentations and speed networking sessions.
The 'absence of people' is a rare weakness of the TCFD framework - but investor engagement to ensure a socially just low-carbon transition could be set for a major boost, an Environmental Finance webinar heard. Michael Hurley reports
The second instalment in a series of thematic briefing afternoons that Environmental Finance is running throughout the year on the topic of Natural Capital Investment.
The event was opened by Banque de France's Alexandre Gautier, who called for central banks and investors not to wait for "more information" before acting on the biodiversity impact of investment portfolios.
Hosted in partnership with Environmental Finance and features sessions on ESG in the insurance sector.
Gain insight into the emerging ESG data industry and understand the key factors shaping its future.
With spotlights on emerging markets, sovereign bonds and the global regulatory landscape
With spotlights on standards and harmonisation, ESG data, bondholder engagements and impact reporting
21 September 2021, 3pm BST/10am EDT
As governments prepare to strengthen the Paris Agreement at COP26, corporate action has never been more critical. Learn how corporations can meet net zero-carbon targets, protect tropical rainforests, and support global climate agreements
28 September 2021 - 3pm BST/10am EDT
This webinar will review how private and public financial institutions are identifying, quantifying and managing climate risk
29 September 2021- 3pm BST/10am EDT
This webinar will consider how impact investment is changing the investment decisions that pension funds are making.
30 September 2021 - 1pm BST/2pm CEST
This webinar will consider WWF's debt capital scenarios and hear from market practitioners, regulators, supervisors and central bankers on the future of debt capital markets
7 October 2021 - 3pm BST/10am EDT
As the concept of transition finance gains traction, this webinar will showcase how the fixed income market is rapidly adapting to net zero commitments
19 October 2021, 3:00 pm BST
This webinar will explore the practical implementation of the EU Taxonomy and Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) as deadlines rapidly approach
Thursday 21 October - 3pm BST/10am EDT
Two years after the Sustainability-Linked Loan Principles (SLLPs) were published, this webinar will review how the SLL market has grown and assess future trends and challenges
28 October 2021 - 3pm BST/10am EDT
As sustainability-linked bond (SLB) issuers prepare to publish their first progress reports, this webinar will look at how the market is developing and investors are responding
With spotlights on transition strategies, hard to abate sectors and science-based targets
Understand how investment opportunities in forestry, agriculture and sustainable land use continue to develop and how they can best preserve carbon, biodiversity, soil quality and ecosystems.
Hear how investors are turning their attention to the broad range of water issues that are material to the long-term financial performance of their investments.
With spotlights on structuring considerations for sustainability-linked bonds and how to ensure social bonds will continue to grow beyond the Covid-19 pandemic.
To coincide with the UN World Oceans Day, this briefing afternoon will review one of the most exciting areas of development for natural capital investment.
Discuss how biodiversity loss may affect companies' risk-reward profiles is one of the hot topics of the year and is only set to intensify.
A select group of winners from EF's 2021 Bond awards will be chosen to talk about their innovative approaches and strategies that further develop the GSS bond universe. 6 May 2021
Part 1 of the ESG in Fixed Income Global Series 2021. With additional spotlights on transition bonds, social bonds and sustainability-linked loans
Available on demand
Environmental Finance is presenting a summary of the green bond market for quarter two of 2021.
Available on demand
This webinar, run in partnership with ISS ESG, will look at the big picture and 'need-to-knows' for ESG regulation in 2021
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This webinar will cover the initiatives improving the harmonisation and comparability of sustainability data and bring unique insights from data providers, issuers and asset managers.
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This free webinar will consider how the transition to a low carbon economy can minimise negative impacts to people and jobs, as well as considering the effect the Covid-19 has had on just transition impact themes.
Available on demand
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology have the potential to help investors to collect and aggregate ESG data more effectively. This webinar will look at how investors are approaching such technologies and consider the opportunities for ESG data collection in emerging markets.
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This webinar will look at the opportunities for green bonds in emerging markets, what investors think of emerging market bonds and what is the outlook for yields and pricing of green bonds in these regions.
Available on demand.
This webinar will assess whether a rush of family office-managed private wealth into impact investments inevitable and how approaches to impact may differ.
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This webinar will cover the experience of green bond issuers in emerging markets and the benefits and challenges that they have experienced so far
An investor panel looks at how investors can value natural capital assets and structure funds. Features gold sponsor Mirova Natural Capital.
A review of nature-based solutions and ecosystem services with potential to scale. Features gold sponsor Lombard Odier Investment Managers.
How impact can maximise environmental and biodiversity gains. Features gold sponsor HSBC Pollination Climate Asset Management and silver sponsor The Nature Conservancy.
What policy makers can do to collectively to protect nature within financial systems. Features silver sponsors Impax Asset Management and Baker McKenzie.