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Changing Finance: Hard-wiring Sustainability into the Financial Sector

Grand Ballroom
11:00 - 12:30

For the finance sector to fulfill its role in the broader sustainable development agenda, UNEP FI believes a system-wide change is required, that is, both at the policy and regulatory level, and at the level of individual financial institutions.

In this opening plenary, we invite financial regulators who have incorporated sustainable development as a policy goal to explain why they have taken the lead on these issues, and why they urge other financial regulators to follow. From the financial institutions’ angle, the session welcomes both seasoned and new UNEP FI members from banking, investment and insurance spheres to give their story of why and how sustainable finance is implemented and how they envisage the role of financial policy and regulation.

The session further aims to explore the various ways regulators and financial institutions can work together to help set in motion the “tectonic change” which is required to respond to the urgent need for sustainable development.

Moderator

  • Dr. Jake Reynolds, Director, Business and Policy Leaders Groups, University of Cambridge

Keynote Dialogue

  • Mr. Zhaoxing Wang, Vice Chairman, China Banking Regulatory Commission
  • Mr. Mallam Sanusi, Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria

Speakers

  • Mr. Li Renjie, CEO, Industrial Bank
  • Dr. Simon Zadek, Senior Fellow and Associate, IISD
  • Leona Murphy, Chief Strategy Officer, Insurance Australia Group and Co-Chair of the Board, UNEP FI Principles for Sustainable Insurance Initiative
  • Habil Olaka, Chief Executive Officer, Kenyan Bankers Association