• 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 2

 

Thursday, 20 October

 

Live recording available for some sessions.

7.30 –
onwards
Registration opens
9.00 –
9.45
Special Introduction: Rt. Honourable Gordon Brown, MP, former United-Kingdom Prime Minister
9.45 –
10.05
–Coffee Break–
10.05

11.20
Plenary 2
Earth Summit 2012: Financing the Rio vision

Paul Abberley, CEO, Aviva Investors
Wolfgang Engshuber, Chair, UN PRI
Roberto Dumas Damas, Head of Environmental and Social Risk, Banco Itau BBA
Mark Tercek, President and CEO, The Nature Conservancy
Moderator: David Runnalls, Outgoing President and Distinguished Fellow, IISD

11.20 – 11.30

–Break–
 
Theme Banking stream Investment stream Insurance stream North American focus
11.30

12.45
Climate Change Session 9 Session 10 Session 11 Session 12
Mission Impossible? Clean energy for the next 2 billion Beyond Smoke Stacks: The carbon footprint of capital allocation Empowering Resilience: Communities, risk and insurance Climate Ambition: Geo-politics, competitiveness and growth

Special introduction: Dean Cooper, Head, Energy Finance Unit, Division of Trade, Industry and Economics, UNEP
Miguel Ángel Alonso Rubio, Managing Director, Acciona Energy Mexico
Kai Buntrock, Senior Investment Manager, DEG
Gonzalo Ruiz De Angulo,  Vice President, Project Finance Energy, BBVA
Julio Alberto Valle Pereña, General Director, Environment, Research and Technological Development, Ministry of Energy (SENER), Mexico
Moderator: Mark Fulton, Global Head, Climate Change Investment Research, DB Climate Change Advisors

James Leaton, Project Director, The Carbon Tracker Initiative
Gianluca Manca, Head of Sustainability and Global Non-Profit Business at Eurizon Capital
Nigel Topping, Chief Innovation Officer, Carbon Disclosure Project
Barend Van Bergen, Global Head, KPMG Centre of Excellence for Climate Change & Sustainability
Moderator: Nick Robins, Head of Climate Change Centre of Excellence at HSBC
William Breed, Global Climate Change Team Leader, USAID Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade
Douglas Camacho, President, Insurance Association of the Caribbean / President, Guardian Insurance & Executive Director, Guardian Holdings
Patience Damptey, Lead UNFCCC Coordinator for Africa on Adaptation, African Group of Negotiators
Youssef Nassef, Officer in Charge; Adaptation Programme; UNFCCC
Deon Nel, Head, Biodiversity, WWF South Africa
Ernst Rauch, Head of Climate Change Centre, Munich Re
Moderator: Mark Way, Director, Sustainability and Political Risk Management, Swiss Re
Jennifer Blanke, Director, Global Centre for Competitiveness, World Economic Forum
McKie Campbell, Republican Staff Director, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
Ana Unruh Cohen, Deputy Staff Director, Democratic Staff Natural Resource Committee
Mindy Lubber, President, Ceres
Moderator: Eric Roston, Sustainability Editor, Bloomberg Businessweek
 12.45 – 13.45 — Lunch —
13.45

15.15
Building Capacity & Transfering knowledge Session 13 Session 14 Session 15 Session 16
The Tipping Point: Making ESG "real" across the institution The Data Dance: Movers and shakers in the sustainability knowledge game Changing Risk, Risking Change: The principles for sustainable insurance (PSI) A Culture that Works: Engaging employees for the green transition

Special Introduction: Dag Arne Kristensen, Executive Vice President DnB NOR
Rosemary Bissett, Head, Sustainability Governance & Risk, National Australia Bank
Chris Bray, Head, Environmental Risk Management, Barclays
Sandra Odendahl, Director, Corporate Environmental Affairs, Royal Bank of Canada
Madeleine Ronquest, Head, Environmental and Social Risk Management, Firstrand
Christopher Wells, Environmental Risk Manager, Santander Brazil Moderators:
Stephen Hine, Head, International Relations , EIRIS
Paul Clements-Hunt, Head, UNEP Finance Initiative

Special introduction: Curtis Ravenel, Head of Global Sustainability Initiatives, Bloomberg
Hewson Baltzell, Head of Product Development, ESG Research, MSCI
Bob Dannhauser, Head, Advocacy Outreach and Communications, CFA Institute
Erika Karp, Managing Director & Head of Global Sector Research, UBS
Moderator: Steve Waygood, Head of sustainability research and engagement, Aviva Investors
Charles Anderson, CEO, Sovereign
Kathy Bardswick, President & CEO, The Co-operators Group
Anthony Kuczinski, President & CEO, Munich Re America
Rowan Douglas, CEO, Global Analytics, Willis Re & Chairman, Willis Research Network
Roger Sevigny, former President, National Association of Insurance Commissioners and New Hampshire Commissioner, USA
Moderator: Dr Astrid Zwick, Head, Corporate Responsibility, Munich Re
Peter DeBruin, Vice President, Office of Environmental Sustainability, State Street
Katie Mandes, Director, Pew Centre on Global Climate Change
Michelle McCulloch, Senior Manager, TD Financial Group
Barbara Turley-McIntyre, Director, The Co-operators Group Ltd.
Moderator: Kim Brand, Director, Environmental Affairs, Scotiabank
15.15 – 15.30 — Coffee break —
15.30

16.45
Cross-Cutting Session Cross-Cutting Session IV Cross-Cutting Session V
Smart Public Private Partnership approaches for financing the transformation of urban life into sustainable cities of the future Effective Human Rights Due Diligence: From naming and shaming to knowing and showing
Special introduction: Amy Fraenkel, Regional Director, UNEP Regional Office for North America
Jeb Brugmann, Senior Strategy Advisor, ICLEI
Christophe Dossarps, Head, Green Financing Network (I4C)
Laurie Weir, Portfolio Manager – CalPERS
Daniel Wiener, CEO, Ecos
Moderator: Paul Clements-Hunt, Head of UNEP FI
Special intro: The Honourable Mary Robinson, President, Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights & former President of Ireland
Philippa Birtwell, Head of Public Policy Research, Barclays Bank
Bennett Freeman, Senior Vice President for Sustainability Research and Policy, Calvert Investments
Chris Jochnick, Private Sector Specialist, Oxfam America
Lene Wendland, Adviser on business and human rights, Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights
Moderator: Christine Bader, Nonresident Senior Fellow, The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
16.30

17.30
Plenary 3
Rio 2012: Beyond the tipping point

Aron Cramer, President & CEO, Business for Social Responsibility
Matthew Kiernan, Founder and Chief Executive of Inflection Point Capital Management
Weihua Ma, President, China Merchants Bank
David Pitt-Watson, Director, Hermes Focus Asset Management Limited
Moderator: Andrew McLean, Host of The Eco Capitalist TV Series

 

 

Live recording available for some sessions.

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