Sustainable Finance Trends to Watch this Fall

Webinar: 1 September 2022, 4-5 PM CEST

About this webinar

Even as inflation soars and the prospect of a recession looms, sustainable funds are performing better than their traditional peers. Sustainable investment strategies must no longer be looked at as just ethical window dressing, but rather as critical to achieving profit while simultaneously realizing important social and environmental objectives for society.

This webinar will highlight the sustainable finance big trends that should be on everyone’s radar this fall – from the energy and food shocks caused by the Ukraine conflict, to “taxomania” sweeping the globe, and innovations in corporate and sovereign debt.

In the spirit of Building Bridges, we will also specifically look at trends that highlight collaboration between different types of actors to advance sustainable finance. This includes the continued development of the TNFD, upcoming COP and G20 sustainable finance work programs, and blended finance.

Join us for a quick overview that will prepare you for the coming months and that will lay the ground work for our Building Bridges 2022 program.

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Guest Speakers

 

Elodie Feller

Global Policy Lead, UNEP FI

Elodie Feller is the Global Policy Lead at UNEP Finance Initiative. She joined the UNEP Finance Initiative in January 2013 as the Investment Commission Coordinator responsible for the UNEP FI investment work programme. Prior to that Ms. Feller joined Lombard Odier Investment Managers’s graduate programme in 2010 where she worked as a product specialist and ESG analyst for the Fixed Income department. She graduated in International Relations from the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland.

 

Alex Bernhardt

Global Head of Sustainability Research, BNP Paribas Asset Management

Alex Bernhardt is responsible for the sustainability research program and ESG rating platform at BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM). Mr. Bernhardt joined BNPP AM from Marsh McLennan, where he was Director of Innovation. Previously, he was Principal and US Responsible Investment Leader at Mercer and a reinsurance broker at Guy Carpenter.

 

Vincent Kaufmann

CEO, Ethos Foundation

Vincent Kaufmann (1980) has been the CEO of Ethos Foundation and of Ethos Services since June 2015. He joined Ethos in 2004 as a Corporate Governance Analyst, later becoming a Senior and Deputy Head Corporate Governance. He has been member of Ethos Services’ management in charge of investment since 2011 and deputy CEO since 2013. He is a member of the board of directors of the proxy voting consultant Proxinvest (Paris) and of the board of Swiss Sustainable Finance. A Swiss certified Expert for Accounting and Controlling since 2009, he holds a Master’s degree in Business Economics of the University of Geneva (2004).