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Events

UNEP FI 2009 Global Roundtable

Background

Initiated in 1994, the UNEP FI Global Roundtable carries-on a now well-established tradition that has spanned the globe from New York to Frankfurt, Rio de Janeiro to Tokyo.

15 years on, the roundtable is now widely recognised as a major global agenda-setting event in sustainable finance. This event offers an opportunity for leaders of the financial world and environmental experts to come together to discuss and exchange views on sustainability issues and “responsible” financing.

The roundtables have significantly contributed with ideas and ways on how to address emerging challenges in environmental, social and governance issues that relate to global financial industry. The series of biennial roundtables has been one of the UNEP Finance Initiative advocacy instruments for sustainable finance.

The successful 2007 event brought more than 450 senior bankers, insurers and asset managers, and environmental experts to Melbourne’s function centre and focused on the challenging issue of moving from “Awareness to Action”. In 2005, the roundtable was hosted at the United Nation’s New York Headquarters, and was based around a risk and opportunity theme.

Our forthcoming Cape Town Roundtable should prove to be yet another memorable gathering around the overarching theme: "Financing Change, Changing Finance".