Events

Training Workshop & CEO Breakfast for the Venezuelan Financial Sector: Environmental and Social Risk Management

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This is the first time the Latin American Task Force convened a training workshop in Venezuela, seeking to train analysts and sensitise managers across the country's financial sector on how to identify and manage social and environmental risks and opportunities in their lending and investment operations.

A carefully targeted group of 25 risk managers from the country’s main banks were trained on how to identify social and environmental risks; they were provided with examples of international best practice and hand-on exercises to help them design their own risk management systems for their respective institutions.

The following day over 20 high-level FI representatives were addressed by the LATF Chair & Coordinator, the Head of the Banking Association and the national regulator to stress the importance of mainstreaming the integration of environmental and social considerations in the Venezuelan financial sector. The conclusions and recommendations of the final debate session of the previous day were presented to the group and the meeting concluded with the pledge of the Association to form a new committee devoted specifically to promoting the uptake of environmental and social mainstreaming in the Venezuelan banking sector.

These events were organised in collaboration with:

• ABN AMRO Venezuela
• Asociación Bancaria de Venezuela (ABV)
• ABN AMRO Banco Real, Brasil
• Proyecto Ecobanking
• Capacity Building International, Germany (INWENT)

Contact

Careen Abb, Task Force Coordinator, UNEP FI
la@unepfi.org