• Achim Steiner
    "Combining private sector financial flows and smart public policy will be a key to a low carbon, resource efficient 21st century Green Economy."
     
    Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director
  • Gordon Brown
    "By kick-starting this engagement on issues of systemic risk and financial sustainability with the United Nations community, my hope is to contribute to defining the new kind of thinking and action that we must embrace to address the challenges of a global economy when climate change, resource scarcity, commodity price volatility and income inequality, amongst other ongoing concerns, will set the future context for our finance sector and global capital markets."
     
    Gordon Brown, former UK Prime Minister
  • Mary Robinson
    "The UN framework affirms that all businesses have a responsibility to respect human rights and that all must be able to demonstrate that they are meeting this responsibility through due diligence and positive actions irrespective of local contexts and government capacities. Many companies still have a great deal of work to do to make human rights due diligence part of their operations and to ensure that at minimum, their actions do not undermine respect for rights and indeed contribute to realizing rights in people’s lives."
     
    Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland
  • Barbara Krumsiek
    "I look forward to welcoming key stakeholders from around the world to Washington, D.C. for the UNEP FI Global Roundtable. My hope is that the event will build the critical partnerships that are necessary to move the sustainable development agenda forward."
     
    Barbara J. Krumsiek, Calvert Investments President and CEO, UNEP Finance Initiative Co-Chair
  • Kai Buntrock
    “I expect a truly catalytic reaction as to the felt and understood necessity of policy makers for placing the discussion on a sustainable policy framework - targeting the future private sector mobilisation and involvement - centre stage!”
     
    Kai Buntrock, Senior Investment Manager, DEG
  • Yvo de Boer
    “I hope the UNEP FI conference will explore best practice in ESG-investing, particularly in the US where we see new levels of interest from mainstream investors. The step change for companies is recognizing that investors have a valid interest in understanding how these issues are being managed across multiple asset classes.”
     
    Yvo de Boer, KPMG’s Special Global Advisor on Climate Change and Sustainability
  • Ernst Rauch
    "Munich Re is particularly looking forward to the expert workshop on climate information services for financial institutions at the UNEP FI’s Global Roundtable 2011. We appreciate the establishment and work of climate information centres, as reinsurance companies would benefit from the broader financial services and insurance sector. This would enhance the overall resilience of the entire sector in light of climate change impacts."
     
    Ernst Rauch, Head of Climate Change Centre, Munich Re
  • Nassim Taleb
    "Owing to [...] misunderstanding of the causal chains between policy and actions, we can easily trigger Black Swans thanks to aggressive ignorance - like a child playing with a chemistry kit."
     
    Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan

Programme Day 1

 

The agenda has been conceptualized to:

 

• Bridge the gap between financial sector and policy-makers: plenaries will take the form of a dialogue between CEOs from the banking, investment and insurance industries and high-level policy-makers;

• Discuss in depth some of the the financial sector’s most pressing issues.

 

            Wednesday, 19 October

 

Live recording available for some sessions.

7.30 –
onwards
Registration opens
9.00

10.30

Opening Ceremony

Welcome

Paul Clements-Hunt, Head, UNEP FI
Lisa Jackson, Administrator, US EPA
Barbara Krumsiek, CEO, Calvert
Anthony Kuczinski, President & CEO, Munich Re America
Rick Lacaille, Global Chief Investment Officer, State Street Global Advisors
Alexandra Liftman, Global Environmental Executive, Bank of America
Via video: Achim Steiner, Executive Director, UNEP
Via Video: His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales

  — Coffee break —
11.00

12.30
Plenary 1
Sustained Stability in the Next Economy: Lenses & Clocks

Yvo de Boer, KPMG’s Special Global Advisor on Climate Change and Sustainability
Gavin Power, Deputy Director, United Nations Global Compact
Jigar Shah, CEO, Carbon War Room
Moderator: Leo Jonhson, Co-Founder, Sustainable Finance Ltd

  — Lunch —
13.40

15.10
Cross-Cutting Session Cross-Cutting Session I Cross-Cutting Session II Cross-Cutting Session III
One Report: Information that counts REDDy – Set – Grow: The race for forest carbon markets Investing in Green Employment: Strategy behind green jobs initiatives
Marlys Appleton, Vice President, AIG Asset Management
Robert G. Eccles, Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School
Paul Hilton, CFA, Portfolio Manager, Trillium Asset Management
Claudia A. McMurray, Senior Counselor to the Prince of Wales’ International Sustainability Unit
Susanne Stormer, Vice President, Global TBL Management, Novo Nordisk
Graham Terry, Senior Executive, Saica
Moderator: Paul Clements Hunt, Head, UNEP FI
Brer Adams, Associate Director, Macquarie Global Investments
Mathias Azeredo de Almeida, Sustainability Manager, MARFRIG Group
Lindene E. Patton, Chief Climate Product Officer, Zurich Financial Services
Andrew Mitchell, Director, Global Canopy Programme
Moderator: Richard Burrett, partner, Earth Capital Partners

Jon Creyts, Principal, McKinsey & Company
Bracken Hendricks, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Jeff Rickert, Director, AFL-CIO Center for Green Jobs
Jonathan Rothwell, Senior Research Analyst, Metropolitan Policy Program, The Brookings Institution
Jordan Schwartz, Lead Economist, World Bank LAC
Moderator: Margarete Strand Ranges, Deputy Director, BlueGreen Alliance

 
Theme Banking stream Investment stream Insurance stream North American focus
15.20

16.50
Greening the man-made environment Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4
Energy Efficiency Financing: Hidden assets of the built environment Crossing the Rubicon: Investing in real estate retrofit The New Architecture: Insuring smart building of the future North America’s Next Frontier: Financing a green energy future

Peter Hobson, Senior Banker, EBRD Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Team
Hulya Kurt, Head, Engineering Department, TSKB
Pierre Langlois, President, Econoler & Vice-Chair, EVO
Raul Preciado, Risk Vice-president, Banco General
Brian Tracey, Community Development Lending and Investments Executive, Bank of America
Moderator: Jane Henley, CEO, World Green Building Council

Presentation by: Gil Levy
Colin Dyer, President and Chief Executive Officer, Jones Lang LaSalle
Paul McNamara, OBE, Director, Head of Research, PRUPIM
Andrew DeGuire, Vice President, Strategy and Aquisitions, Johnson  Controls
Maria Vargas, Director, Better Buildings Challenge & Senior Program Advisor – U.S. Department of Energy
Moderator: Ed Hammond, Property Correspondent – Financial Times
Warren Isom, Executive Vice President, Willis Re
Paul Kovacs, Executive Director, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction
Mike Kreidler, Insurance Commissioner, Washington State & Chair , Climate Change and Global Warming Working Group, US National Association of Insurance Commissioners
George Stratts, President, Global Property, Chartis
Andy Szyman, Head of Sustainability, F&C REIT Asset Management
Moderator: Andrew Logan, Director, Oil & Gas and Insurance Programs, Ceres

 

John C. S. Anderson, Senior Managing Director
Head, Corporate Finance Origination, John Hancock
Ged Davis, Co-President, Global Energy Assessment
Robert Nicholson, Managing Director of Power and Utilities Finance, Royal Bank of Canada
Robert M. Simon, Staff Director, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate
Moderator: Ethan Zindler, Head of Policy Analysis, Bloomberg New Energy Finance
  — Coffee break —
17.15

18.30
Natural values and resources: revisiting Planet, People, Profits Session 5 Session 6 Session 7 Session 8
Absolute Assets: Accounting for natural capital in lending and investment A Steady Flow: Hedging water risks for buyout capital markets Insuring Responsibility: Managing ESG risks inherent in business transactions In the Driving Seat: Innovative approaches to natural capital in North American market
Special introduction: Pavan Sukhdev, Founder and CEO, GIST Advisory and McCluskey Fellow, 2011, Yale University
André Abadie,Managing Director and head of Environmental and Social Risk Management, J.P.Morgan, London
Daniela Mariuzzo, Corporate Social Responsibility Manager, Rabobank Brazil
Lori Conzo , Environmental Specialist, Environmental, Social and Governance Department, IFC
Shawn Miller, Managing Director, Environmental and Social Risk Management, Citi
Moderator: Richard Burrett, partner, Earth Capital Partners
Brooke Barton, Senior Manager, Water Programs, Ceres
Sasja Beslik, Head of Responsible Investments and Governance, Nordea
Vicky Beukes, Social and Environmental Risk Manager, Nedbank
Lily Donge, Manager, Environment and Climate Change, Calvert
Kirsty Jenkinson, Director of the Markets and Enterprise Program at the World Resources Institute
Peter Thimme, Director Sustainable Development / Environment | First Vice President, DEG
Moderator: Jason Morrison, Program Director, Pacific Institute
Robert Detlefsen, Vice President of Public Policy, US National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies
Rowan Douglas, CEO, Global Analytics, Willis Re & Chairman, Willis Research Network
Jean-Noël Guye, Senior Advisor, Group Risk Management, AXA
Britta Rendlen, Head, Sustainability Risk Management and Director, Risk Management, Swiss Re
Moderator: James Hutchin, Associate Professor, Strategic General Management, Fox School of Business, Temple University
Julie Fox Gorte, Ph.D, Senior Vice President for Sustainable Investing, PaxWorld
Heike Reichelt, Head of Investor Relations and New Products, World Bank
Cathy Roy, Chief Investment Officer, Calvert
Mathis Wackernagel, President, Global Footprint Network
Moderator: Chris McKnett, Vice President, ESG Investing, State Street Global Advisors
  Conference Dinner

 

Live recording available for some sessions.

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