Edinburgh Conference 2018 Presentations

POLICY BRIEFING: Brand new EU recommendations for growing sustainable finance

 

Simon Howard and Fergus Moffatt, UKSIF

 

 

INVESTOR ACTION: The Investor Agenda and Climate Action 100+

Sebastian O’Connor, Senior Project Officer, CDP

 

PANEL: New tools to integrate energy transition risks

 

Dr Jean-Christian Brunke, Senior Consultant, The Co-Firm

 

Claudio Dicembrino, Head of Macroeconomic and Energy Analysis and Forecasting, ENEL

 

Samuel Mary, Senior Sustainability Research Analyst, Kepler Cheuvreux

 

Laura Ramirez, ET Risk Project coordinator, 2° Investing Initiative

 

 

 

WORKSHOP: Active, Passive and Asset Owner ESG Policy Benchmark Adoption

 

Guido Guise, Executive Director in the Equity Applied Research team, MSCI.

 

 

PRESENTATION: Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules That Run the World

 

Leif Wenar, Author and Chair of Philosophy and Law, King’s College London

Paul Jourdan, CEO, Amati Global Investors

 

 

PRESENTATION: Natural Capital Protocol – A new finance sector supplement

 

 

Rudy Verstappen, Senior Project Manager Responsible Investment, VBDO

Hannah Pitts, Relationships Director, Natural Capital Coalition

 

 

 

WORKSHOP: Measuring, valuing and monitoring natural capital assets

Ece Ozdemiroglu, Managing Director, Eftec

Adams Koshy, Consultant, Eftec

 

PANEL: Workforce satisfaction: Improved performance through disclosure

 

James Coldwell, Investor Engagement Officer, ShareAction

 

George Daskalakis, Lecturer in Finance, University of East Anglia

Bertille Knuckey, Head of Sustainable Investment and Happy@Work Fund Manager, Sycomore Asset Management

 

WORKSHOP: Biodiversity footprinting – calculating the impact of loans and investments on biodiversity and resulting action perspectives

 

Wijnand Broer, Partner and Senior Consultant, CREM

Mark Goedkoop, Founder, PRé Sustainability

 

 

QUICK FIRE PRESENTATIONS: ESG risk in palm oil and forestry

 

Clara Melot, SPOTT Engagement and Impacts Manager, Zoological Society of London Climate risk in agriculture – the next issue for investors?

 

Iain Watt, Principal Climate Change Specialist, Forum for the Future Plant-based profits: investment risks and opportunities in sustainable food systems

 

 

 

Maria Lettini, Director, FAIRR Initiative

 

 

PRESENTATION AND WORKSHOP: The G20 Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures – scenario analysis.

Max Crawford, TCFD Consultant, ERM

Marion de Marcillac, Vice President, ESG Products, MSCI

Tara Schmidt, Principal Consultant, Global Low-Carbon Transition, ERM