UNEP FI Global Roundtable 2022

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Join UNEP FI virtually this October for its 17th Global Roundtable (GRT), a major global agenda-setting event on sustainable finance. Held under the theme of “Transforming Finance, Accelerating Change”, this online event will bring together decision-makers, experts and thought leaders on a virtual event platform to help shape approaches to integrating sustainability across the banking, insurance and investment industries

UNEP FI’s Global Roundtable consistently serves as a pivotal event in finance industry action, providing attendees an opportunity to collaborate with peers, demonstrate leadership, and learn from global financial leaders; the event in 2020 convened over 4500 finance professionals, corporates, policymakers, scientists, and civil society representatives. This year’s Global Roundtable, held in partnership with Climate Action, will provide a platform for systemic impact and address critical emerging topics, including portfolio alignment, adaptation, impact management and connectivity between the finance sector and the real economy.

Speakers for the GRT2022 include:

Time (CEST)	Sessions – 10 October
12.00	Start of UNEP FI Global Roundtable (Day 1)
12:00 – 12:05	Opening remarks Eric Usher, Head, UNEP FI
12:05 – 12:15	Welcome address Diony Lebot, Deputy CEO, Societe Generale
12:15 – 12:25	Opening Keynote Al Gore, Founding Partner and Chairman of Generation Investment Management, and Former US Vice-President ;
12:25 – 12:50	High-level Dialogue Mark Carney, UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance Eric Usher, Head, UNEP FI
12:50 – 13:35	Panel: Transforming finance for real economy change Hacina Py, Chief Sustainability Officer, Societe Generale Dr Renosi Mokate, Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) South Africa Ernesto Ciorra, Head of Innovability, ENEL Andreas Berger, CEO of Swiss Re Corporate Solutions Moderator: Elliott Harris, Former Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development and Chief Economist, United Nations
13:40 – 14:25	Panel: Delivering a sustainable financial system Speakers: Martin Spolc, Head of Sustainable Finance and Fintech Unit, European Commission Ravi Menon, Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore and Chair of NGFS Petra Hielkema, Chairperson of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) Moderator: Elodie Feller, Global Policy Lead, UNEP FI
14:30 – 15:15	Panel: Next steps to mainstreaming impact management Speakers: Romina Boarini, Director of WISE Centre, OECD James Wallace, Executive Director, Corporate and ESG Reporting, Novartis Dimitrios Dimopoulos, Director, Corporate Development & ESG, Piraeus Bank Eric Usher, Head, UNEP FI Moderator: Careen Abb, SDGs and Impact Lead, UNEP FI
	End of Day 1

Time (CEST)	Sessions – 11 October
12.00	Start of UNEP FI Global Roundtable (Day 2)
12:00 – 12:05	Keynote Inger Andersen, Executive Director, UNEP
12:05 – 12:50	Panel: From commitments to action: target setting for climate Speakers: Tracey McDermott, Group Head Conduct, Financial Crime and Compliance, Standard Chartered and Chair, Net-Zero Banking Alliance Guenther Thallinger, SE Board Member, Allianz & Chair, UN convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance Juvencio Maeztu, CFO and Deputy CEO, IKEA Moderator: Remco Fischer, Climate Lead, UNEP FI
12:50 – 13:35	Panel: From physical risks to adaptation alignment Speakers: Bouke de Vries, Advisor to the Board on Public Affairs, Rabobank Timothy Afful-Koomson, Chief Climate Finance Officer, African Development Bank Roman Roehrl, Climate Change Specialist, European Investment Bank Maria Tapia, Global Lead Climate Finance, the Global Center on Adaptation Moderator: Paul Smith, Senior Consultant, Climate, UNEP FI
13:40 – 14:25	Panel: Pathways to net-zero: Next steps and alignment for sectors Sven Teske, Professor and Research Director at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney Antti Malava, Head of Sustainability Insights & Analytics, Danske Bank Elmar Kriegler, Head of Research Department Transformation Pathways, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Moderator: Jesica Andrews, Investment Lead, UNEP FI
14:30 – 15:15	Panel: Disrupting sustainable finance through innovation Jenny Mathilde Nordby, Head of Partnerships, RepRisk Holger Schmid, Chair of the Board, NatureFinance Ross Brooks, Investment Director, Katapult Ocean Moderator: Katherine Foster, Executive Director, Green Digital Finance Alliance
	End of Day 2

Time (CEST)	Sessions – 12 October
12.00	Start of UNEP FI Global Roundtable (Day 3)
12:00 – 12:25	High-Level Dialogue: Rethinking ESG and sustainability goals Christiana Figueres, Founder, Global Optimism Oliver Bäte, CEO, Allianz Emmanuel Faber, Chair of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB)
12:30 – 12:45	Launching the Principles for Responsible Banking Academy Keynote opening: Jochen Flasbarth, State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany Panellists: Eric Usher, Head, UNEP FI Simon Thompson, CEO, Chartered Banker Institute Moderator: Johanna Dichtl, Sustainability Expert & PRB Implementation Support Manager, UNEP FI
12:50 – 13:35	Panel: Principles for Responsible Banking in action Amanda Lee, Executive Manager, ESG, Suncorp Yvonne Holmes, Chief Sustainability Officer, AIB Tanya Dos Santos-Ford, Global Head of Sustainability, Investec Moderator: Johanna Dichtl, Sustainability Expert & PRB Implementation Support Manager, UNEP FI
13:40 – 14:25	Panel: Scaling blended finance Chris Clubb, Managing Director, Convergence Liza Jansen, Head of Responsible Investment, Prudential Susana Cordeiro Guerra, Sector Manager, Institutions for Development, IADB Moderator: Sheila Aggarwal-Khan, Director, Economy Division, UNEP
14:30 – 15:15	Panel: Data challenges and solutions Truman Semans, CEO, OS-Climate Bradley Foster, Global Head of Enterprise Content, Bloomberg Ellen Moeller, Head of Europe, Watershed Andreas Hoepner, Professor Operational Risk, Banking & Finance, University College Dublin Moderator: Marianne Haahr, Nature-related Finance Lead, Global Canopy
	End of Day 3

Time (CEST)	Sessions – 13 October
12.00	Start of UNEP FI Global Roundtable (Day 4)
12:00 – 12:45	Panel: Insuring the Net-Zero Transition: Evolving tools and methods Sheri Wilbanks, Head of GRM P&C Climate and Sustainability, AXA Giel Linthorst, Executive Director, Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) Nate Aden, Finance Sector Lead, Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) Martin Weymann, Head Sustainability, Emerging & Political Risk Management, Swiss Re Moderator: Butch Bacani, Lead, UNEP’s Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI)
12:50 – 13:35	Panel: Insuring the first- and last- mile Alejandra Diaz, Director of Sustainability, Seguros Bolívar Gian Sandosh Semadeni, Head, Disaster Risk Finance, CelsiusPro Jeremy Gray, Technical Director, Cenfri Moderator: Brandon Mathews, V20 Sustainable Insurance Facility, UNEP FI
13:40 – 14:25	Panel: Nature positive insurance: next steps Ulrich Volz, Professor in Economics, SOAS University of London and Founding Director, SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance Vanessa Otto-Mentz, Partner, Deloitte Samantha Cook, Senior Financial Sector Specialist, World Bank Group Butch Bacani, Insurance Lead, UNEP FI Moderator: Jessica Smith, Nature Lead, UNEP FI
14:30 – 15:15	Panel: Addressing social risks through finance Elin Wrzoncki, Department Director Human Rights and Business, Danish Institute for Human Rights Amanda Zillig, Human Rights Lead, ING Celina Padilla Maerdi, President, Banco Hipotecario de El Salvador Moderator: Joana Pedro, Social Lead, UNEP FI

	End of Day 4

Time (CEST)	Sessions – 14 October
12.00	Start of UNEP FI Global Roundtable (Day 5)
12:00 – 12:20	High-Level Dialogue: Ensuring stronger and clearer standards for net-zero emissions Catherine McKenna, Chair, UN High-Level Expert Group on the Net-Zero Emissions Commitments of Non-State Entities Eric Usher, Head, UNEP FI
12:20 – 12:50	High-Level Dialogue: Exploring intersections between climate and nature Elizabeth Mrema, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity Koushik Chatterjee, CFO, Tata Steel and member of TNFD and TCFD Jessica Smith, Nature Lead, UNEP FI
12:50 – 13:45	Panel: Financing nature-based solutions Frank Hawkins, Policy Advisor, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Candice Stevens, Chair, Sustainable Landscape Finance Coalition Ivo Mulder, Head, Climate Finance Unit, UN Environment Programme Nehru Pillay, General Manager, Research and Intelligence, Land Bank Masahiro Kato, Head of Responsible Investment, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation Moderator: Jessica Smith, Nature Lead, UNEP FI
13:50 – 14:45	Tackling plastic pollution through circular economy for insurers and banks Opening Keynote: Sheila Aggarwal-Khan, UN Environment Director, Economy Division Joost van Dun, Director, Circular Economy, ING Kristin Hughes, Director, Global Plastic Action Partnership, and Member, Executive Committee, World Economic Forum Krassimira Peicheva, Head of Group Environmental Management and Impact Reporting, ProCredit Group Dominic Charles, Director, Finance and Transparency, Minderoo Foundation Andreas Merkl, Senior Advisor, Minderoo Foundation Rosa Pritchard, Lawyer, Plastics, ClientEarth Moderator: Peggy Lefort, Pollution and Circular Economy Lead, UNEP FI
14:50 – 15:00	Closing remarks Liesel van Ast, Deputy Head, UNEP FI
	End of Day 5

Time (CEST)	Sessions – 5 October Focus: Africa & Middle East
09:00 – 09:55	Middle East & North Africa (MENA) focus: Climate action in the MENA finance industry: On the road to COP27 and COP28 Speakers: Randa Mounir, Africa and Middle East Engagement Lead, UNFCCC Climate Champions Team Walid Ali, General Manager of the Sustainability Department at the Central Bank of Egypt Raidan Al Saqqaf, United Nations Economist, UAE UN Resident Coordination Office Shargiil Bashir, Chief Sustainability Officer, First Abu Dhabi Bank Moderator: Nuran Atef, Regional Coordinator for MENA, UNEP FI
10:00 – 10:55	Sub-Saharan Africa focus: Mobilising climate finance for loss and damage in Africa Speakers: Lesley Ndlovu, CEO, African Risk Capacity Patty Karuaihe-Martin, Managing Director, Namib Re Sara Jane Ahmed, Finance Advisor, V20 Moderator: Reuben Wambui, Regional Coordinator for Africa, UNEP FI
	End of Day


Time (CEST)	Sessions – 6 October Focus: Asia Pacific and Europe
09:00 – 09:55	Asia Pacific focus: Implementing climate targets in APAC across Net-Zero Banking Alliance priority sectors Speakers Cho Jeong-hoon, Head of ESG Division, Shinhan Financial Group Siobhan Toohill, Chief Sustainability Officer, Westpac Coby Wong, Senior Vice President, Sustainability, Institutional Banking Group, DBS Bank Moderator: Yuki Yasui, Managing Director, Asia Pacific Network, Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ)
10:00 – 10:55	Asia Pacific and Europe focus: Aligning international taxonomies on sustainable finance Speakers: Eugene Wong, CEO SFIA, host of the ASEAN Taxonomy Board Tomohiro (Tomo) Ishikawa, Managing Director & Head of Government and Regulatory Affairs, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Helena Vines Fiestas, Commissioner, Spanish Financial Markets Authority (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores) Mireille Martini, Taxonomy Outreach Manager, Climate Bonds Initiative Moderator: Daniel Bouzas, Regional Coordinator, Europe, UNEP FI
11:00 – 11:55	Europe focus: EU Sustainable Finance Regulation, state of play and way forward: the impact on financial institutions Speakers: Hans Biemans, Head of Sustainable Markets, ING Anne-Claire Ducrocq, Head of ESG Reporting, BNP Paribas Andreas Rajchl, Policy Expert, Sustainable Finance, DG FISMA, European Commission Fabien Le Tennier, Policy Expert, Sustainable Finance, European Banking Authority (EBA) Moderator: Daniel Bouzas, Regional Coordinator, Europe, UNEP FI
	End of Day

Platinum Sponsor:

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