The UNEP FI Regional Roundtable North America was held on 1 March 2023 in Toronto, Canada. The event gathered over 200 UNEP FI members and supporting institutions, as well as the wider sustainable finance community including regulators, civil society, policymakers and academia to discuss the state of play and define the future of sustainable finance in the region.
The Roundtable was held as part of the GlobexChange Destination Net-Zero event with Globe Series.
Contact us for any questions or comments at: roundtable@unepfi.org.
Watch event recordings here.
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Sessions on 1 March |
09:00 | Opening Remarks
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09:05 | Opening Keynote
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09:15 | Regulatory developments for ESG in North America
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10:00 | Break |
10:30 | Next steps to net zero for financial institutions
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11:15 | Implementing sustainable practices in banking
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12:00 | Lunch |
13:00 | Plenary sessions (in collaboration with Globe Series)
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14:00 | Nature is next: integrating biodiversity risks into financial decision making
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14:45 | Addressing social risks of climate change
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15:30 | Break |
16:00 | Developing sustainable insurance roadmaps across North America
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16:50 | A Legal Framework for Impact: making the case for sustainability impact goals
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16:55 | Closing Remarks |
17:00 | End of Day 1 |
March 2 – private workshops for UNEP FI members. Please contact us for registrations.
Headline Sponsor:
Vancity is Canada’s largest community credit union with more than 560,000 member-owners and $33 billion in assets plus assets under administration. As a financial co-operative, Vancity and its members use finance as a force for change to build a clean and fair world.
With a deep-rooted focus on financial inclusion and a long-standing commitment to environmental leadership in the finance sector, Vancity uses the tools of banking to reduce barriers to broaden economic participation, improve the well-being of the communities it serves and support a fair climate transition. Vancity aims to be net-zero by 2040 across all mortgages and loans.
Panel and workshop sponsor:
Co-operators exists to strengthen the financial security of Canadians and their communities. This is their mission and their social purpose. As a leading Canadian financial services co-operative, Co-operators offers multi-line insurance and investment products, services, and advice to build financial strength and security.
With over $56 billion in assets under management, Co-operators provides financial solutions and security through property and casualty (P&C) insurance, life insurance, investment management, institutional asset management, and brokerage operations.
Panel sponsor:
Areti Bank is a purpose-driven team of experts in finance united by a shared mission of creating a more sustainable world for the generation to come. We are a bank for people who care about the role their money plays in the world. We strongly believe in offering a new kind of bank with a focus on partnering with our clients to create a more sustainable future. At Areti Bank we are aware of the challenges that the planet faces today. We are invited to be part of the solution, to create a more sustainable world through banking. We want to make sure the generation to come inherits a more livable planet.
Networking sponsor
Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with more than 90,000 employees around the world, the Toronto-Dominion Bank and its subsidiaries are collectively known as TD Bank Group (TD). TD offers a full range of financial products and services to over 27 million customers worldwide. TD Group is recognised for sustainability leadership, and since 2014, TD Bank Group remains the only Canadian bank listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index.
Workshop sponsors
CIBC is a leading Canadian-based global financial institution. Through its four strategic business units — Canadian Personal and Small Business Banking, Canadian Commercial Banking and Wealth Management, U.S. Commercial Banking and Wealth Management, and Capital Markets — CIBC provides a full range of financial products and services to 11 million individual, small business, commercial, corporate and institutional clients in Canada, the U.S. and around the world.
CIBC summarises their sustainability strategy to include aspiring to be a leader in environmental performance, understanding stakeholders are engaged and impacted by the critical issues related to the environment and engaging all stakeholders to focus efforts on initiatives where they can have a positive impact, and which are consistent with their client-focused strategy including responsible financing and investing, green products and Services and managing their footprint.
TD Insurance is part of the TD Bank Group, one of Canada’s largest financial services organizations. We work in two sectors: general insurance and life and health insurance.
We’ve earned our place as the largest direct-response home and auto insurance group and one of the top three personal home and auto insurance groups in Canada. We’re also the national leader in critical illness insurance and a pioneer in affinity marketing, where we work jointly with groups to market insurance to their members.
As part of our ongoing commitment to helping you make informed property and casualty insurance choices, we at TD Insurance put together an insurance disclosure document on our compensation to duly licensed and fixed salaried representatives.
Jane Ambachtsheer
Global Head of Sustainability, BNP Paribas Asset Management
Christine Bergeron
President & CEO, Vancity
Kathleen Birrane
Insurance Commissioner of Maryland
David Carlin
TCFD Programme Lead, UNEP FI
Guy Cormier
President & CEO, Desjardins Group
Johanna Dichtl
Implementation Guidance Team Lead
Jonathan Fowlie
Chief External Relations Officer and Head of Impact Strategy, Vancity
Ivan Frishberg
Senior Vice President, Chief Sustainability Officer, Amalgamated Bank
Romie Goedicke den Hertog
Co-Lead, Nature
Adam Kanzer
Head of Stewardship, Americas, BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM)
Sarah Kemmitt
Secretariat Lead, Net-Zero Banking Alliance
Kelly Krauter
Senior Policy Analyst, Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)
Ricardo Lara
Insurance Commissioner, California Department of Insurance
Catherine McKenna
Chair, UN Secretary-General’s High-level Expert Group on Net-Zero Commitments
Ashleigh Owens
Deputy Director, Financial Institutions Lead, Shift Project
Huma Pabani
Senior Manager & Head of Sustainability, TD Insurance
Chad Park
Vice President, Sustainability & Citizenship at The Co-operators
Joana Pedro
Social Lead
John Stackhouse
Senior Vice-President, Office of the CEO, RBC
Anton Tabuns
Senior Counsel, Sustainability, BMO Financial Group
Liesel van Ast
Deputy Head
Grant Vingoe
CEO, Ontario Securities Commission
Yasmina Vucina Banjanin
Chief Sustainability Officer, SVP Strategic Partnerships, Areti Bank
Sheri Wilbanks
Head of GRM P&C Climate and Sustainability, AXA
Joy Williams
Executive Director, Financial Institution Net-zero Transition Plans, GFANZ
Maud Zénidé
Senior Advisor, Sustainable Development - ESG, National Bank of Canada
Barbara Zvan
CEO and President, University Pension Plan Ontario (UPP)