Name: ESG Integration in Sovereign Debt: Emerging and Developed Markets #1
Start: 2019-09-19T14:00:00Z
End: 2019-09-19T15:04:36.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 4.2

Welcome to the channel for the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). 

Here you will find webcasts about mainstreaming responsible investment from the PRI initiative. 

The PRI is an investor-led initative backed by the United Nations in partnership with UNEP Finance Initiative and the UN Global Compact.

For more info visit: www.unpri.org

This session will explore the updated due diligence questions that investors in real estate should ask their investment managers during selection, appointment and monitoring. Real estate investment provides a good opportunity to directly influence positive sustainability outcomes and this session will provide guidance for investors on evaluating the ability and readiness of investment managers. The session will also explore a recently published report mapping out the ESG landscape for real estate; outlining and comparing the most important frameworks, standards and certifications to help investors interpret which may be applicable for their different reporting and disclosure requirements and for which stakeholders.

Real estate investment - Understanding ESG capabilities & disclosures

This session will examine the different approaches private markets investors are taking to human rights due diligence. It will look at actions that investors can take to implement the different elements of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, from effective stakeholder engagement to preventing and mitigating human rights impacts. Participants will hear practical insights and examples from their peers to support their own progress on this increasingly important issue.

Practical approaches to human rights due diligence in private markets

Many PRI signatories are beginning to consider the risks associated with biodiversity loss, along with the opportunities that arise from nature-positive solutions. This webinar will explore where and how to start incorporating biodiversity considerations in the analysis of fixed income assets. This session is aimed at various stakeholders of the investment chain, including fixed income investors (asset owners and investment managers), credit rating agencies and debt issuers.

Biodiversity and fixed income: how to start

The session will explore the next, post-target setting stage of net zero investing. It will contrast the key approaches taken by listed & private equity investors. It will highlight the commonalities and explore the differences in the issues faced by the two groups of investors - such as the role of asset managers in helping companies decarbonise, the use of carbon offsets and the ways of tackling data availability challenges.

Climate commitments made, what next for public and private equity?

This session will examine the journey signatories face when transferring RI policies and ambitions into practical actions resulting in real world impacts. Most PRI signatories already have RI policies, this session will provide some guidance on how signatories put these into practice, explore the process of reviewing those policies and outline how ambitions can be transferred into investment policy and stewardship activities. This session is targeted at smaller asset managers, asset owners and service providers.

Transforming responsible investment (RI) policies into action

As biodiversity loss reaches unprecedented rates, the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework provides a framework for bold action and policy alignment, with a clear call to align public and private financial flows with its goal to “halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030”. This webinar will explore actions that leading investors are undertaking to contribute to this goal and discuss how investors look to support both climate and nature goals.

Stepping up on biodiversity: how are investors taking action since COP15?

This session, co-hosted by the PRI and the Emerging Markets Investors Alliance (EMIA), will help investors and other market participants understand where to find countries’ ESG data, what it shows, and how to use it. The World Bank will also present the new version of its Sovereign ESG Data Portal, which has many potential applications for government bond investors.

Introduction by :
Claire Meier Underhill, Head, Memberships & Partnerships, EMIA

Speakers:
Julien Moussavi, Ph.D., Senior Research Lead in Sovereign ESG at London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)
Dieter Wang, PhD, Sustainable Finance Specialist, World Bank
Ann Frank Andresen, Head of Research EMD, Nordea Asset Management
Moderator: Jasper Cox, Investment Practices Analyst, Fixed Income, PRI

ESG data for sovereign bonds: the what, the why and the how

This session is to help signatories prepare for the upcoming PRI reporting cycle, from mid-May to mid-August 2023. During the session, we will provide an overview of the 2023 Reporting Framework, including key changes compared to the 2021 pilot, what to report on (based on signatory type), and the resources available to prepare ahead of the reporting period. We will also host a moderated Q&A session, where participants can ask questions of reporting and assessment subject experts. See R&A Updates for the latest information on the 2023 reporting cycle: https://www.unpri.org/signatories/reporting-and-assessment/randa-updates.

Confirmed speakers:
Giulia Scaminaci, Senior Associate, Reporting and Assessment Framework
Luca Riganelli, Assessment Analyst, Reporting and Assessment Framework
Jayces Garello, Associate, Reporting and Assessment Framework
Lauren Green, Head of Reporting and Assessment Framework

How to prepare for the 2023 PRI reporting cycle

How to stay up-to-date with ESG proposals this AGM season? This webinar will explore the tools and resources that PRI offers to support investors through the busy proxy season, including through the PRI Resolution Database. The webinar will also share key PRI resources around voting and collaboration that investors can make use of throughout 2023 AGM season.

Speakers:
Chloe Horne, Specialist, PRI
Bonnie Groves, Senior Analyst, PRI

Proxy Season 2023: tools and resources from the PRI on voting and collaboration

This series of two webinars will explore the US agencies’ approach in incorporating ESG factors in their strategy, in order to enable a sustainable housing market. This second session will focus on Freddie Mac Multifamily’s approach. Investors in loan-backed products will learn how the agency has built its framework over the years, as well as challenges encountered and future developments.

Introduction by: Sixtine Dubost, Senior Analyst, PRI
Luba Kim-Reynolds, Head of Multifamily Investor Relations & ESG Initiatives, Freddie Mac
Moderated by: Malea Figgins, Assistant Vice President, The TCW Group

How US agencies consider ESG in commercial mortgages: Freddie Mac Multifamily

Speakers line up:
- Jessica Smith, Nature Lead at UNEP Finance Initiative 
- Sonya Likthman, Manager at Federated Hermes 
- Adhiti Gupta, Senior Financial Expert at UNEP
- Gregory Watson, Principal Specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank
- Richard Speak, Managing Director at Finance Earth
- Irina Likhachova, Global Lead for Biodiversity Finance at International Finance Corporation

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), which was adopted in end of 2022 begins our 'peace treaty with nature' and is in line with the Paris climate agreement’s calls on private sector actors to play a key role in delivering its apex goal to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030. The Paris equivalent for 2.1.C is goal D, which calls upon adequate resources available to implement the agreement, particularly to more vulnerable countries, progressively closing the $700 billion per year finance gap for biodiversity. UNEP’s State of Finance for Nature report calls for tripling investments in nature-based solutions by 2030. 

In this webinar, we present the headline outcomes of the GBF for the financial sector. We will also zoom in on how financial institutions, via blended finance solutions, can help to substantially and progressively increase the level of financial resources from all sources to implement national biodiversity strategies and action plans in line with target 19. We will present innovative solutions from project developers and conservation organisations who are already working to close the global biodiversity funding gap, and dive into the role that sovereign sustainability-linked bonds can play.

New Green Shoots 2023 - Closing the gap in financing the GBF

This series of two webinars will explore the US agencies’ approach in incorporating ESG factors in their strategy, in order to enable a sustainable housing market. This first session will focus on Fannie Mae Single Family’s approach. Investors in loan-backed products will learn how the agency has built its framework over the years, as well as challenges encountered and future developments.

Introduction by: Sixtine Dubost, Senior Analyst, PRI
Arthur Johnson, Vice President, Capital Markets, Fannie Mae
Moderated by: Rob McDonough, Director of ESG and Regulatory Initiatives, Angel Oak Capital Advisors

How US agencies consider ESG in residential mortgages: Fannie Mae Single Family

Speakers:
Victoria Barron, Head of Sustainable Investment, BT Pension Scheme Management and ASCOR co-chair
Adam Matthews, Chief Responsible Investment Officer, Church of England Pensions Board and ASCOR Co-chair 
Carmen Nuzzo, Head of Fixed Income, PRI 
Udo Riese, Head of Sustainable Investing, Allianz Investment Management
Antonina Scheer, Policy Fellow and Research Project Lead and Johannes Honneth, Policy and Data Analyst, Transition Pathway Initiative, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics

This webinar marked the launch of the public consultation of ASCOR, a new tool which gives investors, issuers and other stakeholders a common understanding of sovereign adaptation to climate change and of how governments plan to transition to a low-carbon economy. Participants learned how to use the ASCOR framework and about opportunities to engage and provide feedback to enhance it, during the current pilot phase.

We had two sessions of this webinar and so in this recording have combined the Q&A from both sessions.

Assessing sovereign climate-related opportunities and risks (ASCOR)

Confirmed speakers:
Aurelia Britsch, Senior Director, Global Head of Climate Research, Sustainable Fitch
Mark Fulton, Programme Director, Inevitable Policy Response
Brian Hensley, Partner, Kaya Advisory
Catherine Higham, Policy Analyst, Grantham Institute, LSE
Thomas Kansy, Director, Vivid Economics
Moderated by: Daniel Gallagher, Ph.D., Head of Climate Technical Guidance, PRI

This webinar will provide PRI signatories with the latest insights from the Inevitable Policy Response (IPR) on the long-term implications of climate and energy policy developments this quarter. Panelists will assess progress against the 2021 IPR Forecast Policy Scenario (FPS), a detailed assessment of climate driven policy acceleration and investor value drivers in energy, carbon pricing, transport, land use and agriculture.

IPR Quarterly Forecast Tracker - global climate policy, trends & technology

PRIでは、日本国内や海外におけるサステナブル・ファイナンス、ESGに関する規制・市場動向などを実務専門家をお招きして解説する『ESG実務専門家に聞く』ウェビナーをシリーズ（全５回）で開催いたします。日本では統合報告書を発行する企業が急速に増えるなど、サステナビリティ経営を重視する潮流が加速している中、ESGやサステナブル・ファイナンスについては、年金基金などのアセットオーナーだけでなく、企業年金の運営を支える観点から、母体企業にとってもますます重要な領域になってきています。　本ウェビナー・シリーズでは、そうしたESG、サステナブル・ファイナンスに関するトピックを取り上げ、企業や年金基金の皆様などが疑問に感じておられる点について、PRIアドバイザリー・コミッティのメンバーを中心としたESGの実務専門家が解説させていただきます。

Agenda:
アジェンダ
・生物多様性とTNFD 投資家を取り巻く動向
・『ビジネスと人権』に関する投資家の視点と企業への期待
・人権と生物多様性　 ～期待される投資家の役割を支援

スピーカー（敬称略）
三井住友トラストアセットマネジメント スチュワードシップ推進部
シニア・スチュワードシップ・オフィサー 和田健
りそなアセットマネジメント 執行役員 責任投資部長 松原稔
PRI事務局　シグナトリー・リレーション　リレーションシップ・マネージャー　米山美奈子

PRI ウェビナー・シリーズ（全５回）ESG実務専門家に聞く (第五回)

Speakers:
Jesica Andrews, Investment Lead and Director of the Investment Leadership Programme, UNEP FI
Ed Baker, Head of Climate Policy, PRI
Sagarika Chatterjee, Finance Lead, UN Climate Champions / GFANZ
Moderator: Rahnuma Chowdhury, UNEP FI  

Following COP 27 in Egypt and PRI in Person in Barcelona, join this session to find out the key emerging themes and what matters for investors amidst all of the noise. As transition plans become mandatory for more financial institutions, how are best-in-class ICAPs evolving? Find out what leading investors have planned for 2023 and bring your questions for the PRI and UNEP FI climate teams.

What’s next for Investor Climate Action Plans in 2023

This webinar will support venture capital investors, both LPs and GPs, in understanding asset owner responsible investment expectations of VC firms. This webinar follows the launch of the first publicly available venture capital ESG DDQ for asset owners and fund-of-funds to evaluate the responsible investment capabilities of venture capital GPs. We will explore best practices in applying the DDQ and discuss how to evaluate the quality of responses. Venture capital limited partners, general partners, and consultants alike will find value in this session.

Speakers include:

Michael Cappucci, Managing Director, Compliance and Sustainable Investing, Harvard Management Company
Anna Grgic, ESG Integration Manager, AP6
Ben Robson, General Counsel, Molten Ventures
Andrew Rich, Vice President, Investment Team, Hamilton Lane
Moderated by: Peter Dunbar, Head of Private Equity, PRI

Responsible Investment in Venture Capital: Asset Owner expectations of VC GPs

Speakers:
Will Attwell, Associate Director of Climate Risk, Sustainable Fitch
Alex Bernhardt, Global Head of Sustainability Research, BNP Paribas Asset Management
Jason Eis, Executive Director, Vivid Economics
Emily McKenzie, Technical Director, Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)
Sylvaine Rols, Senior Specialist, Environmental Issues, PRI
Moderated by: Daniel Gallagher, Ph.D., Head of Climate Technical Guidance, PRI

This webinar will launch the new Inevitable Policy Response (IPR) Forecast Policy Scenario (FPS) + Nature. IPR FPS + Nature is the first integrated nature and climate scenario for use by financial institutions. Join PRI, members of the IPR consortium, and leading investment managers as we discuss how this scenario fills a crucial gap in risk assessments and provides financial institutions with a forward-looking view on how policy, technological and social trends will impact key nature-based solutions, land use and energy-related value drivers.

Launch of IPR Forecast Policy Scenario + Nature & implications for investors

Join the PRI, MN, Insight Investment and Social Progress Imperative for a webinar on 19 September and on 26 September to hear about the findings of our new report, A Practical Guide to ESG Integration in Sovereign Debt. Investors are formalising approaches to systematic ESG integration across all asset classes – and sovereign debt is no exception. This new guide captures recent progress, provides guidance on assessing and integrating ESG factors at the research, security, and portfolio levels, and outlines areas where further progress is required. 

Speakers include investors who are actively considering ESG factors in sovereign debt analysis, as well as important stakeholders providing valuable data and additional insight to the ESG integration process.

Onursal Kilic, Lead Portfolio Manager, MN
Joshua Kendall, Senior ESG Analyst, Insight Investment
Michael Green, Chief Executive Officer, Social Progress Imperative

ESG Integration in Sovereign Debt: Emerging and Developed Markets #1

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