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8:50 Chair’s opening remarks
SEC GUIDANCE
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- Guidance for publicly traded financial institutions
- Requirements for specific disclosures relating to climate
- Reviewing requirements across suppliers and vendors
- Developing a roadmap to comply with disclosure requirements
- Multiyear planning to determine future targets
- Legal challenges
- Breaking down stage 1, 2 and 3 internally
- Implications of reporting requirements
- Interpretations of the rules and implications
GLOBAL REGULATION
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- Reviewing requirements and reporting metrics from UK and EU
- Future state of regulation
- Developing consistent reporting standards
- Exposure to European SFDR
- Impact to evaluation of securities and exposures
- Grouping of IFRS and FASB
- Reviewing exposure draft
- ISSB alignment with SEC disclosure requirements
- Aligning operations with Paris agreement
Kevin Clarke, Executive Director, Group Regulatory and Governance, UBS
10:10 Morning refreshment break and networking
CLIMATE RISK
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- Impact down to collateral level
- Future of regulatory frameworks and expectations
- Scoring collateral for climate change
- Climate change and social justice
- Increased investing in decarbonization technology and assets
- Incorporating benefits to third world
- Building social justice into ESG frameworks
- Impact of climate change on third world countries
Christe Saab, Unit Chief, Environmental and Social Risk Management, Inter-American Development Bank
CLIMATE RISK – PANEL DISCUSSION
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- Using capital in a way that is credible and meaningful
- Transitioning to a low carbon economy
- Challenges and opportunities of the climate crisis
- Transparency over decision making
- Optimizing portfolios for carbon exposure
- Developing infrastructure for change
- Agility to respond to change and accelerate commitments
- Impact of geopolitical risks on timelines
- Social considerations when transitioning
- Impact to jobs and lower income areas and groups
James Norman, Managing Director, Sustainability and Impact, Goldman Sachs
Sarah Chapman, Global Chief Sustainability Officer, Manulife
12:00 Lunch break and networking
CLIMATE STRESS TESTING
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- Leveraging scenarios for a meaningful analysis
- Developing models to replicate losses
- Collecting data around losses
- Understanding impact of climate events on books
- Calibrating with long term goals
- Designing scenarios and practically implementing stress tests
- Data, governance, and methodology preparedness
- Adjusting methodologies to convert data into impact.
Chandra Sekhar Khandrika, Director – Internal Audit – Model Risk Management, Citi
FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
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- Impacts of market downturn on availability
- Incentivizing sustainability
- Driving innovation in a market friendly environment
- Managing funding needs with sustainability goals
- Reviewing technologies to enable innovation
- Balancing cost of regulation
- Financing opportunities for eco infrastructure.
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Clinton van der Spuy, Managing Director, Head of Risk Management Financial Markets Americas, Head of Climate Risk Working Group, Former Rabobank
GREENWASHING – PANEL DISCUSSION
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- Effective tone at the top
- Identifying investment opportunities
- Identifying true value
- Differentiating organizations making great strides
- Creating value across industries
- Engaging stakeholders to accelerate change
- Regulatory requirements to enhance transparency.
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Ekaterina Grigoryeva, Environment and Social Development Specialist (Global Lead, Financial Sector), The World Bank
Aaron Franklin, Executive Director, Head of Sustainable Finance, Sumitomo Mitsu Banking Corporation (tbc)
2:55 Afternoon refreshment break and networking
BIODIVERSITY
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- Biodiversity and natural capital
- TNFD developments
- Developments in subterranean biodiversity and natural capital
- Impact to investment decision making
- Developing natural capital protocol for institutions.
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Sarah Bratton Hughes, SVP, Head of ESG and Sustainable Investing, American Century Investments
NET ZERO – PANEL DISCUSSION
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- Setting a decarbonization pathway
- Adoption of net zero pathways across the industry
- Aligning capital expenditures with targets
- Updating compensation schemes to incentivize meeting targets
- Techniques to put a price to carbon
- Reducing carbon to meet Paris Agreement
- Reviewing technology driving decarbonization
- Retrofitting industries with technology.
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Candice Dial, Director of ESG Investments, Rockefeller Capital Management
Ivan Frishberg, Chief Sustainability Officer, Amalgamated Bank
Nora Lovell Marchant,Vice President, Sustainability, AMEX GBT
GEOPOLITICAL RISK
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- Managing response of organizations and reputation risk
- Impact of Russia war and resulting sanctions on ESG agendas
- Incorporating geopolitical circumstances into frameworks
- Future of country ratings within ESG
- Adjusting ESG strategy and frameworks to reflect changes
- Evolution of political alignments and evolving threats
- Continuing momentum in a hostile economic and geopolitical environment.
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5:10 Chair’s closing remarks
5:10 End of day 1 and networking drinks reception

8:00 Registration and breakfast
8:50 Chair’s opening remarks
PHYSICAL RISK
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- Converting climate risk into economic and financial impacts
- Modeling physical risk over time
- Impact to bank portfolio and lending strategies
- Repositioning portfolios
- Adjusting methodologies for frequency of physical risk events
- Identifying vulnerable assets
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Fanny Charrier, Director – Sustainable Finance Coordinator – Corporate & Leveraged Finance, Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank
ESG RATINGS
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- Qualitative assessment of ratings
- Best practices to construct ratings
- Empirical measurement approaches
- Reviewing recent developments and approaches
- Metrics to measure efforts
- Standardizing and aligning efforts across organizations
- Reviewing varying metrics and approaches.
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Olga Puntus, SVP, Environmental and Social Risk Management Lead, , Wells Fargo
10:10 Morning refreshment break and networking
DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS
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- Data requirements
- Collecting data to complete disclosures
- Leveraging internal and third party resources to collect data
- Engaging vendors to understand disclosure requirements
- Managing responsibility to report carbon across supply chain
- Enhancing disclosures to allow for actionable and informed decision making
- Capturing and auditing sustainability metrics for disclosure
- Capturing new figures for utilities, water management, emissions etc….
- Data requirements
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Eivind Lorgen, Chair Emeritus – Investor Advisory Group, SASB Standards
DATA – PANEL DISCUSSION
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- Collecting usable data for modeling
- Limitations with a lack of historical data
- Treatment of various sources including unstructured data
- Collecting data to satisfy investor appetite
- Developing standardized metrics across financial services
- Reliability of data sources and assurance on numbers
- Finding consistent data across jurisdictions
- Understanding disparities across external providers
- Developing a standardized data framework to compare issuers
- Data to measure and report climate exposure and emissions.
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Deniz Senturk, Chief Risk Officer, Treasury Risk and Head of Integrated Analytics, State Street
SUPPLY CHAIN RISK
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- Measuring risk of supply chains
- Monitoring labor rights and anti-bribery and corruption
- Reviewing sanctions impacts across supply chain
- Monitoring scope three emissions across supply chain globally
- Incorporating continuous monitoring into controls
- Managing jurisdictional and cultural disparities
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Alessia Falsarone, Managing Director, Portfolio Strategy and Risk DMFI, PineBridge Investments (tbc)
12:35 Lunch break and networking
MODERN SLAVE LABOR
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- Expertise to conduct effective due diligence
- Benchmark on conducting due diligence to identify future issues
- Identifying future labor conditions
- Key indicators to prevent modern slave labor
- Implementation requirements.
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DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION – PANEL DISCUSSION
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- Ensuring diversity in vendor make up
- Engaging businesses in supplier inventory
- Diversifying human capital
- Opportunities to build a more diverse population of suppliers
- Collecting data on suppliers and potential suppliers to track diversity
- Practical application to leverage diversity of knowledge as a result of backgrounds
- Setting diversity targets
- Reviewing community investment targets and social impact.
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Jennifer Grzech, Director, Responsible Investing, Nuveen
INVESTOR INTEREST
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- Understanding how disclosures are driving investment decisions
- Increased scrutiny from investors on ESG
- Challenges around comparability and data
- Generating positive return portfolios
- Monitoring sound corporate governance and environmental planning
- Continued investment in renewable energy
- Diversifying loan portfolios relating to energy
- Evaluating changes to risk profile with renewable energy portfolios
- Tax credit investments to diversify portfolio
- Investments in infrastructure to transition away from fossil fuels
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Markus Lammer, COO, Ultra High Net Worth Business, Credit Suisse (tbc)
3:30 Afternoon refreshment break and networking
ECONOMIC REALITIES
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- Opportunities ESG changes represent
- Viewing ESG beyond a compliance exercise
- Impact to customers and potential to lose business
- Establishing goals beyond net zero and understanding financial implications
- Demonstrating value to management
- Competing priorities with commercial efforts
- Integrating ESG into core commercial value proposition
- Internal capacity to implement ESG.
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STAKEHOLDER INTEREST
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- Banking decisions based on values
- Developing a mission statement for ESG
- Identifying what stakeholders are looking for in a company
- Demonstrating awareness of ESG issues
- Developing social media strategies
- Ensuring clarity from the top
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5:10 Chair’s closing remarks
5:20 End of Congress