Events

UNEP FI 2003 Global Roundtable

Sustaining Value: A Meeting on Finance and Sustainability

20-21 October, 2003 | Tokyo, Japan

Agenda

The agenda for the UNEP FI 2003 Global Roundtable combined global and regional themes over a 2 day programme which offered multiple opportunities to hear from leaders in the field of finance and sustainability, and workshop sessions for in-depth discussions.

• Full speakers list.

DAY 1 - Monday, 20 October 2003

• Opening and Welcome
• Opening Keynote

Panel and discussion session

• Understanding Sustainability

Parallel workshop sessions

• Reporting Sustainability: Standards and Guidelines
• Insuring Sustainability
• Corporate Regulation and Governance
• Defining Sustainable Investment Strategies for Pension Funds

Panel and discussion session

• Strategic Values of Sustainability

Reception

• Special concert by UNEP Special Envoy Ms. Tokiko Kato
• New signatories' signing ceremony (VicSuper Proprietary Limited, and Groupama Asset Management)

DAY 2 - Tuesday, 21 October 2003

Parallel Sessions

• Carbon  
• SRI in Emerging Markets

Parallel session

• Emerging Economies
• Sustaining Biodiversity: Benefits for Communities - Business Opportunities for Financial Institutions

Parallel workshop sessions

• Case Studies: Soil Pollution & Environmental Risk Assessment
• Materiality of Qualitative Risk
• Blowouts, Shareholder Activism and Pension Funds: SRI in 2003
• Carbon Disclosure Project

Closing Session

• Building Sustainability into Finance
• Closing Comments