Agenda
13 October
14 October
13 October
12:00 PM
Opening of the GRT2020
Plenary
12:10 PM
Keynote: Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations
Plenary
12:15 PM
Navigating the Climate Crisis: A Conversation with Mark Carney
Plenary
12:40 PM
Keynote: Johan Rockstrom, Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Plenary
12:50 PM
Banking for the Sustainable Development Goals: Principles for Responsible Banking
Plenary
01:35 PM
The New Climate Leadership in Finance: The Race to Net-Zero
Plenary
02:20 PM
Building Back Better: Financing a Resilient Future
Plenary
03:05 PM
High-level dialogue: The Role of Regulators in Delivering a Sustainable Financial System
Plenary
03:35 PM
Keynote: Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Plenary
03:40 PM
Message from Christiana Figueres, Convenor, Mission2020
Plenary
03:45 PM
NEW: Aligning International Efforts on Sustainable Finance
Plenary
04:30 PM
Keynote by David Blood, Co-Founder & Senior Partner, Generation Investment Management.
Plenary
04:40 PM
A Legal Framework for Impact: Investing for Sustainability Impact
Next Steps in Sustainable Finance
04:40 PM
Mainstreaming Climate Risk Disclosure
Finance Action
04:40 PM
Building Societal Resilience Through Finance
Making Waves
05:20 PM
Principles for Responsible Banking: Working Group Update
Finance Action
05:20 PM
Launch: Financing a Circular Economy
Next Steps in Sustainable Finance
05:20 PM
Portfolio Alignment with the Paris Agreement
Making Waves
06:00 PM
Managing Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) risks in non-life insurance business (language: Spanish)
Latin America and Caribbean
06:00 PM
Climate Risk Management: Filling the gaps
North America
07:00 PM
North America Beyond Fossil Fuels: Syndicated transition
North America
07:00 PM
Promoting Sustainable Finance at National Level (language: Spanish)
Latin America and Caribbean
08:00 PM
End of Day 1
14 October
08:00 AM
Climate change in the Asia Pacific region: How much do banks and investors know about the risks and opportunities?
Asia Pacific
08:00 AM
Progress-to-date in Implementing Sustainable Finance Practices in Africa
Africa & Middle East
09:00 AM
Part 1: Green recovery in Asia Pacific: The role and priorities of financial institutions
Asia Pacific
09:00 AM
Is the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) Region Witnessing a Paradigm Shift in Sustainable Finance?
Africa & Middle East
09:15 AM
Part 2: Green recovery in Asia Pacific: The role and priorities of financial institutions
Asia Pacific
10:00 AM
Opening of Day 2 Plenaries
10:00 AM
Keynote: Christine Lagarde, President, European Central Bank (ECB)
Plenary
10:10 AM
The Decade to Deliver
Plenary
10:50 AM
Keynote: Inger Andersen, Executive Director, UN Environment Programme
Plenary
11:00 AM
Message from Elizabeth Mrema, Executive Secretary, UN Convention on Biological Diversity
Plenary
11:07 AM
Leadership Dialogue: Development Banks and Paris Alignment
Plenary
11:32 AM
Message from Enric Sala, Explorer-in-Residence, National Geographic
Plenary
11:35 AM
Special message from Peter Thomson, United Nations Secretary General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean
Plenary
11:40 AM
Driving Change, Creating Impact – A Conversation with Sir Ronald Cohen
Plenary
12:00 PM
Blue Economy: Financing Life Below Water (Sustainable Development Goal 14)
Making Waves
12:00 PM
Renewed Sustainable Finance Strategy in Europe
Next Steps in Sustainable Finance
12:00 PM
Roundtable discussion: Harnessing Insurance Products and Solutions for the SDGs
Principles for Sustainable Insurance
12:40 PM
Next Steps in Taxonomy Development
Next Steps in Sustainable Finance
12:45 PM
Setting Biodiversity Targets
Making Waves
01:00 PM
Sustainability Priorities for the Life & Health Insurance Industry in a post-COVID World
Principles for Sustainable Insurance
01:20 PM
Driving Sustainability Through FinTech
Next Steps in Sustainable Finance
01:25 PM
Making it all come together: Holistic Impact Analysis to get from Sustainable Development Goal 1 to 17
Making Waves
02:10 PM
Accelerating Transformation: Making Investments Dedicated to Sustainable Land Use More Accessible
Making Waves
02:10 PM
Climate Risk Applications: Outputs from UNEP FI’s The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) Banking Pilot
Next Steps in Sustainable Finance
03:00 PM
Closing of the UNEP FI Global Roundtable
Plenary
Video Content
15 October
15 October
08:00 AM
Moody's Climate Solutions
09:00 AM
RepRisk and Principles for Sustainable Insurance: ESG integration in the insurance industry
10:30 AM
Carbon Trust - Raising business ambition for 1.5°: setting a science-based target for the financial sector
11:00 AM
RepRisk: ESG Integration in the banking sector in Latin America (in Spanish)
01:00 PM
Carbon Trust -Time for action: setting net zero targets:
Speakers
Amaury Oliva
Executive Director of Sustainability, Financial Citizenship, Consumer Relations and Self-Regulation
Brazilian Federation of Banks (Febraban)
Butch Bacani
Programme Leader
UN Environment Programme’s Principles for Sustainable Insurance Initiative
Christian Peter
Practice Manager for the Environment, Natural Resources and Blue Economy’s Global Platform Unit
World Bank
David Rouch
Eliza Huger Eubank
Managing Director and Global Head of Environmental and Social Risk Management
Citi
Elmar Kriegler
Acting Head of the Research Department "Transformation Pathways"
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
G�nther Thallinger
Member of the Board of Management, Investment Management, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
Allianz
Junichi Fujino
Principal Researcher & Senior Coordinator for Urban Taskforce
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
Karl Pettersen
Chief Sustainability Officer, Americas
Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking
Mariana Escobar
Head of the Sustainable Finance Working Group
Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia
Nancy Ferland
Nehru Pillay
General Manager, Research and Intelligence
Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa
Sarah Stephanou
Test
Test 2
Test 3
UNEP FI
Whitney McWade
Director, Sustainability Strategy, Disclosure and Impact Measurement
BMO Financial Group