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    30 years of UNEP FI

    2022 marks 50 years of environmental action through UNEP, 30 years of

    Remembering Richard Hansen: our humble, high-flyer

    We lost a dear UNEP FI colleague recently, Richard Hansen, our web

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    Remembering Richard Hansen: our humble, high-flyer

    We lost a dear UNEP FI colleague recently, Richard Hansen, our web

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    UNEP FI launches new resources to support CSRD implementation by leveraging Principles for Responsible Banking requirements

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    NZAOA Target-Setting Protocol Fourth Edition

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    Tackling Hidden Emissions for a Net-Zero Transition

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    Turning point: How policymakers can shift the trillions needed for the net-zero transition

    Net-zero can only be achieved through systemic change. It is time to move

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    UN-convened Net-Zero Export Credit Agencies Alliance launches target-setting guidance at COP29

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    160 financial institutions representing 15.5 USD trillion combined assets call for an ambitious international treaty to end plastic pollution

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    Impact Protocol 2025

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    UNEP FI launches new and enhanced Interlinkages and Needs mappings to help financial institutions manage impacts

    UNEP FI has launched the new and enhanced Interlinkages Mapping and the

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Global Roundtable 2020: Speakers

Ahmed Al Qabany
Manager, Resilience and Social Development Department, Islamic Development Bank

Inger Andersen
Executive Director, UN Environment Programme

Ivani Benazzi de Andrade
Sustainability Superintendent, Bradesco Seguros

Jesica Andrews
Investment Lead

Butch Bacani
Head of Insurance

Antoni Ballabriga
Global Head of Sustainability Intelligence & Advocacy, BBVA

Edward B. Barbier
Distinguished Professor, Colorado State University

Clara Barby
CEO, Impact Management Project

Angelique Bayot
Head of SCOR Global Life Strategy, SCOR (France)

Rostin Behnam
Commissioner, US Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Amal Benaissa
Director, Sustainability Advocacy, Bank of Africa - BMCE Group

Zelda Bentham
Group Head of Sustainability, Aviva plc

Christine Bergeron
President & CEO, Vancity

Judson Berkey
Managing Director, Chief Sustainability Office, UBS

Charles Bernardi
Senior Sustainability Advisor, Desjardins Group

Andre Bertolotti
Head of Global Sustainable Research and Data, BlackRock

Hans Biemans
Head of Sustainable Markets, ING

Lisa Biesenbach
Climate Risk Lead, ING

Rosemary Bissett
Head of Sustainability Governance & Risk, National Australia Bank

David Blood
Co-Founder & Senior Partner, Generation Investment Management

Christopher Bonnet
Head of ESG Business Services, Allianz (Germany)

Daniel Brooksbank
Head of Strategic Content, Responsible Investor

Elizabeth Cardona Rendon
Head of the Geosciences Department, Suramericana S.A

David Carlin
TCFD Programme Lead, UNEP FI

Tomás Carmona
Head of Sustainability, SulAmérica Insurance, Life and Pension

Mark Carney
Special Envoy on Climate Change & Finance, United Nations

Hui Wen Chan
Senior Vice President, Environmental and Social Risk Management, Citi

Sir Ronald Cohen
Chairman of the Global Steering Group, Impact Investment & The Portland Trust

Simon Connell
Head, Sustainability Strategy, Standard Chartered

Guy Cormier
President & CEO, Desjardins Group

Sola David-Borha
CEO, Africa Regions, Standard Bank Group

Marie De Montlaur
Manager of Forestry Assets and Investments, Caisse des Dépôts

Karen Degouve
Head of Sustainable Business Development, Natixis

Tom Delay
CEO, Carbon Trust

Xavier Desmadryl
Global Head of ESG Research, HSBC Global Asset Management

Simone Dettling
Co-Lead, Banking

Conor Donaldson
Head of Implementation, IAIS

Rowan Douglas
Head of Climate and Resilience Hub, Willis Towers Watson

Frank Elderson
Executive Director, De Nederlandsche Bank & Chair, NGFS

Nomindari Enkhtur
CEO, Mongolian Sustainable Finance Association (MSFA)

Mariana Escobar Uribe
Oficial de Operaciones, IFC

Eliza Huger Eubank
Managing Director and Global Head of Environmental and Social Risk Management, Citi

Elodie Feller
Co-Lead, Global Policy

Christiana Figueres
Convenor, Mission 2020

Remco Fischer
Climate Lead

Leila Fourie
CEO, Johannesburg Stock Exchange and Co-Chair, GISD

Junichi Fujino
Principal Researcher & Senior Coordinator for Urban Taskforce, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)

Kristalina Georgieva
Managing Director, IMF

Nermin El Ghazali
Senior Analyst, Banque Misr

David Grey
Sustainability and Communication Manager, Banco Pichincha

Pedro Guazo
Representative of the Secretary-General, UN Joint Staff Pension Fund

Marianne Haahr
Nature-related Finance Lead, Global Canopy

Jonathan Hackett
Managing Director & Head of Sustainable Finance, BMO Financial Group

Cassim Hansa
Group Head: Underwriting and claims, Continental Reinsurance Plc

Elliott Harris
Chief Economist, UN

Alyssa Heath
Head of EU & UK Policy, Principles for Responsible Investment

Ryuichi Horie
Co-founder & CEO, CSR Design Green Investment Advisory

Laila Hosny
Head of CSR and Sustainable Development, ALEXBANK

Dr. Ali Adnan Ibrahim
Global Head of Sustainability and Social Responsibility, Al Baraka Banking Group

Arshad Mohamed Ismail
President & CEO, Bank Pembangunan Malaysia Berhad

Jennifer Reynolds
President & CEO, Toronto Finance International

Andrés Leonardo Jiménez
Sustainability Professional, Fasecolda

Huang Jing
Head of Green Finance, Bank of Jiujiang

Jacki Johnson
Co-Chair, Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative

Peter Johnson
Director, Scotiabank & Chair, CSA Technical Committee, Green and Transition Taxonomy

Dr Dalia Abdel Kader
Chief Sustainability Officer, Commercial International Bank (CIB), Egypt

Hasmig Khoury
Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, Bank Audi, Lebanon

Johanna Köb
Head of Responsible Investment, Zurich Insurance

Fabián Kon
CEO, Banco Galicia

Brenda Kramer
Senior Advisor Responsible Investment, PGGM

Elmar Kriegler
Head, Research Department Transformation Pathways, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Jochen Krippner
Vice-President, ESG and Sustainability, Barclays

Christine Lagarde
President, European Central Bank

Frazer Lanier
Vice President - Environmental and Social Risk Management, Citi

Calvin Lee Kwan
Head of Sustainability, Link Asset Management

Daphne Lilli
Head of Social Politics, Banco Maré

Robert Litterman
Chairman of the Risk Committee and Founding Partner, Kepos Capital

Ola Lowden
Founder and CEO, Omocom

Martina Macpherson
SVP, Moody's & President, Network for Sustainable Financial Markets

Deia Markova
Head of Trade Commodity Finance, Societe Generale (Switzerland)

Will Martindale
Director of Policy and Research, Principles for Responsible Investment

Elizabeth Maruma Mrema
Executive Secretary, UN CBD Secretariat

Dorothy Maseke
Africa Lead, Nature Finance & TNFD, FSD Africa

Jeremy McDaniels
Senior Policy Advisor, Sustainable Finance, Institute of International Finance

Whitney McWade
Director, Sustainability Strategy, Disclosure and Impact Measurement, BMO Financial Group

Maria de Fátima Mendes
Sustainability Director, MAPFRE, Brazil

Alexandra Mihailescu Cichon
Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing, RepRisk

Amina J. Mohammed
Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations

Edward Moncreiffe
Chief Executive Officer, HSBC Global Insurance

Gustavo Montezano
President, BNDES

Francisco Moreno
Undersecretary of Finance, Finance Ministry of Chile

Caesar Mwangi
CEO, ICEA LION Insurance Holding

Ahmed Nassar
Senior Deputy Manager, Banque Misr

Puleng Tumelo Ndjwili-Potele
Co-Lead, Banking

Lesley Ndlovu
CEO, African Risk Capacity

Stephen Nolan
Managing Director, FC4S Network

Ligia Noronha
UN Assistant Secretary-General and Head of UNEP, New York Office

Joshua Oigara
CEO, KCB Group

Janette O’Neill
Group Head of Sustainability, QBE (Australia)

Christian Peter
Practice Manager for the Environment, Natural Resources and Blue Economy’s Global Platform Unit, World Bank

Karl Pettersen
Chief Sustainability Officer, Americas, Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking

Nehru Pillay
General Manager, Research and Intelligence, Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa

Franco Piza
Head of Sustainability, Grupo Bancolombia

Corli Pretorius
Deputy Director, UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre

Alban Pyanet
Principal, Oliver Wyman

Jan Raes
Finance and Plastics Lead

Layalee Ramahi
Regional Lead, North America

Fiona Reynolds
CEO, Principles for Responsible Investment

Rémy Rioux
CEO, Agence Française de Développement (AFD)

Vicky Robertson
Chief Executive and Secretary, the Ministry for the Environment, New Zealand

Johan Rockström
Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Juan Carlos Jiménez Rojas
Director General, Association de Bancos Mexico

Madeleine Ronquest
Head of Environmental and Social Risk, Climate Change, FirstRand Group

David Rouch
Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Louis Roy
CEO & President, Optel Group

Karen Sack
President & CEO, Ocean Unite

Enric Sala
Explorer-in-Residence, National Geographic

Musa Salah
Head of Environmental and Sustainability Management, Ecobank, Togo

Werner Schmidt
Director, European Investment Bank

Reto Schnarwiler
Head Chairman's Office, Swiss Re

Veronica Scotti
Chairperson Public Sector Solutions, Swiss Re

Dean Segell
Director, Sustainability Strategy, Sun Life (Canada)

Judith Sidi Odhiambo
Group Head Corporate Affairs, KCB Group

Anne Simpson
Interim Managing Investment Director, Board Governance & Sustainability, CalPERS

Paul Smith
Senior Consultant, Climate

Valerie Smith
Chief Sustainability Officer & Managing Director, Citi (USA)

Jessica Smith
Lead, Nature

Leigh Smyth
Movement Lead, Money and Pensions Service

Maria Eugenia Sosa Taborda
Governance and Membership Team Lead

Celine Soubranne
Chief Corporate Responsibility Officer, AXA Group

Martin Spolc
Head of Sustainable Finance and Fintech Unit, European Commission

Daniela Stoffel
State Secretary for International Finance (SIF), Federal Government of Switzerland

Geoff Summerhayes
Executive Board Member, APRA & Chair, UNEP Sustainable Insurance Forum

Robert Swaak
CEO, ABN AMRO

Tom Tayler
Senior Manager, Sustainable Finance Centre for Excellence, Aviva Investors

Günther Thallinger
SE Board Member, Allianz & Chair, UN convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance

Peter Thomson
Special Envoy for the Oceans, United Nations

Nigel Topping
High Level Climate Action Champion, COP26, UK Government

Jason Tu
Co-Founder & CEO, MioTech

Caroline Tully
Head of ESG Reporting & Ratings, AIB Group

Eric Usher
Head, UNEP Finance Initiative

Mabyr Valderrama
Director of Financial Inclusion and Sustainability, Fasecolda

Merlyn Van Voore
Head of the Secretariat of the International Resource Panel, UNEP

Sylvain Vanston
Group Head of Climate and Environment, AXA

Jose Alexandre Vasco
Director of Investor Protection and Assistance Office, CVM

Omobolanle Victor-Laniyan
Head of Sustainability, Access Bank, Nigeria

Armelle de Vienne
Vice President and ESG Research & Engagement Analyst, Rockefeller Asset Management

Margaret Wachenfeld
Member of the Board of Directors, Corporate Human Rights Benchmark

Mazen Wathaifi
CEO, Amman Stock Exchange, Jordan

Angela Wiebeck
Head of UBS in Society Program Office, UBS

Bill Winters
CEO, Standard Chartered

Sang-hyeon Woo
Chief Senior Managing Director of CIB Business Unit, KB Financial Group

Yuki Yasui
Managing Director, Asia Pacific Network, Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ)

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