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UNEP FI 2009 Global Roundtable

Programme

Session presentations are available on some sessions' webpages. Audio for each Plenary session is also available. You may obtain a copy of the audio of the other sessions by contacting the Secretariat.

Programme (PDF version: 1.8 MB)

Day 1 - Thursday, 22 October

*Indicates sessions dedicated to Africa/South Africa

7.30 -
onwards

Registration opens

9.00
-
9.10

Opening Ceremony

9.10
-
10.10

Opening Plenary

The new sustainable finance - Getting serious

10.15
-
11.15

Second Plenary

Finance, Investment and Business: Making it happen

--- Coffee break ---

11.40
-
13.00

Workshop 1	Workshop 2	Workshop 3	Workshop 4
Copenhagen and beyond - The role of finance in climate change	Insuring sustainable markets of the future	Resource rich markets - Balancing natural assets	*Eco-legislation - Catalysing green markets in South Africa

--- Lunch ---

14.20
-
15.35

Workshop 5 Open Debate Series I	Workshop 6 Open Debate Series I	Workshop 7 Open Debate Series I	Special Workshop
The regulation reflex - Sustainable finance in an era of "Big Government"	"A handful of water" - The mercurial asset	*Financing environmental infrastructure	Review and Update of IFC Social and Environmental Standards

--- Coffee break ---

16.00
-
17.20

Workshop 8	Workshop 9	Workshop 10	Workshop 11
From GRI Reporting to Indices - The next generation for financial markets	Access to finance - Micro solutions, macro opportunities	The FI Challenge - Sustainability in the Supply Chain	*Africa agro-industry in an era of environmental change

18.30

Pre-dinner Reception

19.45

Conference Dinner & Awards Ceremony

Day 2 - Friday, 23 October

7.30 -
onwards

Registration opens

9.00
-
10.00

Third Plenary

Responsible investment - Elusive, illusion or its time has come?

10.10
-
11.10

Fourth Plenary

UNEP's Green Economy Initiative - The markets remade

--- Coffee break ---

11.30
-
12.50

Workshop 12	Workshop 13	Workshop 14	Workshop 15
The banking challenge - Balance sheets, reputations and trust	*Africa and the CDM - Finding the lost treasure	The new fiduciary and sustainable assets	Banking on private investment for the cleantech revolution

--- Lunch ---

14.10
-
15.25

Workshop 16 Open Debate Series II	Workshop 17 Open Debate Series II	Workshop 18 Open Debate Series II	Special Workshop
*King III and the governance challenge - Putting a premium on corporate responsibility	The problem with ecosystems - Valuing the priceless	Post crisis - A forensic future for finance	Managing Environmental and Social Risk in Project Finance Transactions

--- Coffee break ---

15.40
-
17.00

Workshop 19	Workshop 20	Workshop 21	Workshop 22
Public-private hybrids for a low carbon future	Rethinking Finance - Human Rights and Ethics	Sound assets - Valuation for an era of responsibility	Sustainability and global property portfolios