Name: Integrating climate and nature action: Unlocking the biodiversity-climate nexus
Start: 2023-12-13T13:00:00Z
End: 2023-12-13T13:01:15.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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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 trends from the 2023 proxy season and how these are shaping 2024 AGMs. PRI specialists will introduce the resources we offer investors to help keep you up to date throughout proxy season. PRI signatories will present their focus areas and approaches. Join to ask questions and find out how to use PRI tools to support and strengthen your stewardship efforts.

Proxy season 2024: tools and insights

This session, co-organised by the PRI and ICGN, will outline practical resources and examples to help investors ensure that their managers’ approach to stewardship and sustainability are aligned with their own objectives.

Stewardship for sustainability: designing mandates and evaluating managers

The PRI Academic Seminar Series invites leading ESG experts to present their research to academic scholars and investors. During this session, Zacharias Sautner (Professor of Sustainable Finance, University of Zurich; Senior Chair, Swiss Finance Institute) will present the paper 'Do Investors Care About Biodiversity?'

PRI Academic Seminar Series: Zacharias Sautner

The recently released Inevitable Policy Response (IPR) 2023 Forecast sees Direct Air Capture (DAC) emerging as an important negative emissions technology later this century, following delays in government action on climate and a breach of the 1.5C of warming limit in the 2030s. In this event, invited speakers will explore the rationale behind IPR’s expectation that DAC will rise in importance, and review the engineering challenges, policy considerations, and financing opportunities for the responsible investment community in the coming decades.

Speakers:

Jakob Thomae, Project Director, IPR
Jennifer Anderson, Managing Director, Co-Head of Sustainable Investment and ESG, Lazard Asset Management
Mark Fulton, Founder, IPR
Peter Webb, Visiting Fellow Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
Moderator: Dr Ben Allen, Director, ESG Issues, PRI

Inevitable Policy Response Quarterly Briefing: Direct Air Capture

Session 3: Risk Management and Stewardship
PRI尽责管理能力建设活动第三期：风险管理与尽责管理

The PRI is presenting this series of stewardship capacity building workshops to signatories and the wider investment community in China, providing an opportunity for leading investors to share their stewardship best practices and to prepare Chinese investors for meeting the increasing client and policy demands on shaping investment impacts in line with sustainability objectives.   

PRI 正面向中国签署方和广泛的投资者群体推出一系列尽责管理能力建设活动，活动将邀请行业领先的投资者分享其尽责管理最佳实践，为中国机构投资者群体提供学习交流机会，帮助投资者为满足未来客户和政策对负责任投资和尽责管理的进一步要求做好准备。

PRI尽责管理能力建设活动第三期：风险管理与尽责管理

The flagship Forecast Policy Scenario models the impact of climate policy acceleration forecast by IPR on the real economy up to 2050+. It analyses detailed effects on carbon & clean energy, transport, industry, buildings, land use, agriculture & NBS. 

Net Zero prospects, carbon pricing & carbon removals are also included in the multiple sector & national based assessments. 
 
In this Deep Dive, expert panelists will outline for signatories the major FPS conclusions & outlook to 2030 and 2050 & discuss short and long term transition, opportunity & volatility implications. 

Speakers: 
Lily Burge, Senior Policy Research Analyst, Climate Bonds Initiative
Sophie Coutaux, ESG Lead for Corporate Ratings, Fitch Ratings
Jason Eis, Executive Director, Vivid Economics
Jakob Thomae, Project Director, IPR

Moderated by: 
Daniel Gallagher, Head of Climate Technical Guidance, PRI

IPR: 2023 Forecast Policy Scenario (FPS) - Investor Deep Dive

Plastic pollution is a global challenge and systemic issue, exposing financial institutions to a range of material financial risks. Every year we produce 300 million tonnes of plastic waste (more than the weight of the entire human population) and only 9% of this is recycled.

International action has been increasing. The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (target 7), calls for the reduction of pollution risks from all sources by 2030, including ‘preventing, reducing, and working towards eliminating plastic pollution’ as part of this.

Additionally, last year saw the adoption of a resolution at the UN Environment Assembly, to end plastic pollution and create an international, legally binding agreement on plastics. This resolution was supported by 175 nations and is currently under development between now and 2024. Although policies and regulations on plastic use have risen dramatically in recent years, this agreement has the potential to make a substantive difference by harmonising goals and action from policymakers worldwide.

Ahead of the upcoming third round of negotiations in November to develop this agreement, this webinar explores:

Why plastic waste and pollution is a risk to financial institutions, including the opportunities of a circular economy for plastics to address climate and biodiversity risks;
How financial institutions can take action to address this issue; and
How financial institutions can engage with the UN global agreement currently under development.

Turning the tide on plastic waste and pollution

PRI最近发布了题为“中国的负责任投资与可持续发展结果：当前实践和政策建议”的政策报告。本报告识别出中国投资者考虑和追求可持续发展结果以及将SDGs纳入决策的当前实践、新机遇与主要挑战，并提出一系列政策建议，以支持投资者在这些领域的进一步实践。

本次网络研讨会将邀请政策制定者、投资者和有关专家，讨论报告的主要发现，如何有效支持并赋能投资者在投资决策中考虑可持续发展影响和结果，以及如何将其付诸实践。

中国的负责任投资与可持续发展结果研讨会

The PRI is presenting this series of stewardship capacity building workshops to signatories and the wider investment community in China, providing an opportunity for leading investors to share their stewardship best practices and to prepare Chinese investors for meeting the increasing client and policy demands on shaping investment impacts in line with sustainability objectives.

Thematic stewardship - Leveraging stewardship to escalate green transition

Session 1

The PRI is presenting this series of stewardship capacity building workshops to signatories and the wider investment community in China, providing an opportunity for leading investors to share their stewardship best practices and to prepare Chinese investors for meeting the increasing client and policy demands on shaping investment impacts in line with sustainability objectives.   

PRI 正面向中国签署方和广泛的投资者群体推出一系列尽责管理能力建设活动，活动将邀请行业领先的投资者分享其尽责管理最佳实践，为中国机构投资者群体提供学习交流机会，帮助投资者为满足未来客户和政策对负责任投资和尽责管理的进一步要求做好准备。

中国尽责管理能力建设系列研讨会 | 第一期：尽责管理概览

There is an increasing regulatory and societal expectations for investors to conduct human rights due diligence. In this session, we will bring together different voices to discuss how investors should, in practice, identify and act on human rights risks. What systematic approaches are being taken by investors? What challenges and limitations exist, and how can they be addressed?

Human rights due diligence: how should investors identify and prioritise risks?

Speaker include:
- Isabella Coin, Specialist, Stewardship (Nature), PRI
- Bonnie Groves, Specialist, Stewardship, PRI
- Chloe Horne, Specialist, Stewardship (Advance), PRI
- Clara Melot, Specialist, System Stewardship, PRI
- Jude Otaibi, Stewardship Analyst, Climate Action 100+, PRI

Are the tides changing? This session will focus on the key takeaways from this year’s proxy season and what this could mean for 2024. Participants will also leave this session equipped with the tools and guidance PRI offers to support investors throughout the proxy cycle.

Proxy season 2023: key takeaways and looking ahead

Speakers include:
Rory Cardy, Product Manager – Accountability Initiatives, PRI
Aditya Vikram, Head of Accountability and Product Communications, PRI

This session will provide an introduction to the PRI’s minimum requirements for investor signatories reporting in 2023. The presenters will provide an overview of the background to the PRI’s minimum requirements and explain what the PRI expects of its signatories to meet them. Participants will learn how to identify the minimum requirements when reporting and leave the session with an understanding of how PRI engages with signatories that do not meet them. 

We will also host a moderated Q&A session, where participants can ask questions about the PRI’s minimum requirements. 

A recording of this session will be available afterwards.

PRI Minimum Requirements for Investor Signatories in the 2023 Reporting Cycle

Speakers include:
- Jason Eis, Executive Director, Vivid Economics 
- Kathrin Wartmann, Associate Director, Climate Research, Sustainable Fitch 
- Brian Hensley, Partner, Kaya Advisory 
- Lily Burge, Senior Policy Research Analyst, Climate Bonds Initiative 
- Catherine Higham, Policy Fellow, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change, LSE 
- Moderated by: Daniel Gallagher, Head of Climate Technical Guidance, PRI 

This second webinar in the Quarterly Briefing series for 2023 will provide PRI signatories with the latest insights from the Inevitable Policy Response (IPR) and up-to-date analysis of global climate progress and trends in Q2 2023 so far. 

Expert panelists will discuss the implications of these insights for investors and look ahead to the rest of 2023, assessing trends against the IPR Forecast Policy Scenario (FPS), a detailed assessment of climate policy acceleration in energy, carbon pricing, transport, land use and agriculture, driven by multiple factors including the coming COP 2023 Global Stocktake and 2025 Ratchet.

Inevitable Policy Response: Quarterly Briefing #2 – July 2023

Speakers include: 
- Lisa Beauvilain, Global Head of Sustainability & Stewardship, Impax Asset Management
- Gabriel Presler, Global Head of Enterprise Sustainability for Morningstar and Interim Chair of the Net Zero Financial Service Providers Alliance (NZFSPA) 
- Rory Sullivan, CEO, Chronos Sustainability
- Moderator: Rene Van Merrienboer, Director, Sustainable Systems, PRI

This session will focus on the PRI’s upcoming report on climate data. It will offer insights on what data are needed by investors to support their net zero commitments and the gaps between investors’ data needs and what is provided by the market. Participants will leave the session with an understanding of what actions can be taken by investors, data and service providers, and other stakeholders to build a data ecosystem that supports the transition to a net-zero economy.

Climate data and net zero commitments: does the market meet investors' needs?

Speakers include:
Lisa Robinson, Head of IT Applications and Software Development, PRI
Marcus Messenger, Associate Product Support, PRI

This session will introduce the Reporting Tool for the 2023 reporting cycle, including how to access the tool via the Permissions System, demonstrate its key functionalities, and summarise the available guidance.

Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions during a moderated Q&A session towards the end of the webinar. To learn more about the 2023 Reporting Framework, please refer to the 'How to prepare for the 2023 PRI reporting cycle' webinar hosted earlier in the year: https://bit.ly/2023reporting

Please also see R&A Updates for the latest information on the 2023 reporting cycle: https://www.unpri.org/signatories/reporting-and-assessment/randa-updates

2023 PRI Reporting Cycle: Accessing and Navigating the Reporting Tool

Speakers include:
- Carol Adams, Chair of the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB)
- Sue Lloyd, Vice-Chair of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB)
- Nathan Fabian, Chief Responsible Investment Officer, PRI

This session will explore the work of the ISSB and the GSSB, and their implications for responsible investors. Participants will gain insight into the timeline and key decisions underlying the first set of IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards, the ISSB’s and GSSB’s future agenda and their cooperation, and how investors can support the adoption of corporate sustainability and sustainability-related reporting.

A global baseline for corporate sustainability reporting: investor implications

Aimed at banks, institutional investors and insurers at the beginning of their journey in addressing nature loss, this webinar will introduce how nature is connected to climate change and finance, as well as key concepts and initiatives.

Integrating climate and nature action: Unlocking the biodiversity-climate nexus

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