Events

UNEP FI 2003 Global Roundtable

Sustaining Value: A Meeting on Finance and Sustainability

20-21 October, 2003 | Tokyo, Japan

Agenda: Carbon Disclosure Project

• How can investors effectively gather comparative, investment relevant information on corporate Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
• Review of first global survey by Carbon Disclosure Project.

Speakers

Mr. Paul Dickinson, Coordinator, Carbon Disclosure Project
Presentation (PDF: 140 KB)

Mr. Hidemi Tomita, Vice President, Corporate Social and Environmental Affairs, Sony Corporation

Prof. Jusen Asuka, Associate Professor, Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University

Panelist

Mr. Dirk Reinhard, Environmental Consultant, Geo Risks Research Dept., Munich Re Group

Chair

Dr. Matthew Kiernan, Founder & Chief Executive, Innovest Strategic Value Advisors
Presentation (PDF: 235 KB)

Background

The Carbon Disclosure Project Report is available in English and Japanese from the Carbon Disclosure Project website.

Speaker Biographies

Paul Dickinson, Coordinator, Carbon Disclosure Project

Coordinator of the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), providing a secretariat for a group of institutional investors with assets over $4 trillion. This group wrote to the 500 largest companies in the world by market capitalization on 31 May 2002 asking for the disclosure of investment-relevant information concerning their greenhouse gas emissions, see www.cdproject.net. CDP will send another request for information from a larger group of investors on 1 November 2003.

A Member of the Environmental Research Group of the UK Faculty and Institute of Actuaries and Chair of EyeNetwork, the largest videoconference booking service in Europe. A board director of Social Venture Network Europe, he has an MSc in Responsibility and Business Practice from University of Bath, dissertation title "Action to reduce CO2 emissions through increased use of videoconferencing". Author of five books including Beautiful Corporations (2000, Financial Times Prentice Hall), and a book on branding written with Richard Branson. Translated into four languages. Founder of RufusLeonard, a large, independent corporate communications company.

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Mr. Hidemi Tomita, Vice President, Corporate Social and Environmental Affairs, Sony Corporation

Hidemi Tomita was born in Tokyo in 1964 (year of Dragon), just after the Tokyo Olympic games, and in the same year the "Shinkansen" (bullet train) started operation between Tokyo and Osaka.

Mr. Tomita studied applied physics at the University of Tokyo. Mr. Tomita obtained a Master's degree in Chemical engineering at Princeton University, with research on physical property of polymer materials.

After several years at the Sony research center working on Research and Development, I moved to Stuttgart, Germany to establish an environmental laboratory in Sony Europe. Since returning to Japan, I have been in the environmental office at Sony HQ's. Mr. Tomita's current position is Vice President, Corporate Social & Environmental Affairs, Sony Corporation.

His hobbies are walking in the mountains, photography and playing "Shakuhachi" (traditional Japanese flute).

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Mr. Dirk Reinhard, Environmental Consultant, Geo Risks Research Dept., Munich Re Group

Dirk Reinhard works in the environmental management group of Munich Re. His responsibilities include the implementation of sustainability criteria in Munich Re's asset management as well as new business opportunities in the course of the Kyoto protocol. In addition, he coordinates the communication with SRI-Funds and rating agencies in cooperation with Munich Re's investor relations department.

He is a member of the steering committee and the treasurer of the UNEP Insurance Industry Initiative.

Prior to joining Munich Re in 2001, Dirk Reinhard was the chief environmental analyst at oekom research AG, a Munich based sustainability rating agency.

Dirk Reinhard is a graduate of the Technical University of Darmstadt and holds a degree of industrial engineering.

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Dr. Matthew Kiernan - Founder and Chief Executive, Innovest Strategic Value Advisors

Dr. Kiernan is Founder and Chief Executive of Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, Inc., a specialist investment advisory firm based in New York, Toronto, London, and Paris. Innovest's clients include several of the leading institutional investors in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, as well as a number of Fortune Global 500 industrial companies. Innovest's largest outside investor is ABP, the largest pension fund in the world.

Prior to founding Innovest, Dr. Kiernan had served as Director of the Geneva-based Business Council for Sustainable Development, where he led the group's initial capital markets task force. The Group served as Principal Business and Industry Advisor to the U.N. Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Prior to that he had served as a senior partner with KPMG Peat Marwick, one of the world's leading business and financial consultancies.

Dr. Kiernan has also lectured on environmental finance in executive programs at the Wharton School, Columbia Business School, and Oxford University. He holds advanced degrees in political science and environmental studies, as well as a Ph.D. in strategic environmental management from the University of London. His book, The 11 Commandments of 21st Century Management, is published by Simon & Schuster.

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Prof. Jusen Asuka, Associate Professor, Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University

Professor Jusen Asuka is Associate Professor at the Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan.

An overseas Chinese born and raised in Japan, he holds and M.Sc.(Tokyo Univ.), MBA(INSEAD), and Ph.D.(Tokyo Univ.).

His research subjects include: Environmental and Energy issue in Asia, Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol, Clean Development Mechanism, Trans-boundary Air Pollution, and Environmental diplomacy of Japan.

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