FT Innovating Sustainable Finance 2018 | Financial Times | 5 December 2018 | etc.venues Fenchurch Street, 8 Fenchurch Pl, London EC3M 4PB, UK

FT Innovative Sustainable Financing will gather bankers, policy makers, investors, influencers and advisors to discuss the next steps in harnessing the potential of green finance.

Sustainable and impact investing are soaring into the mainstream, driven by the priorities of millennial investors, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. At the start of 2016, global sustainable investment assets reached $22.89 trillion, a 25% increase from 2014. Europe accounts for over half of these assets (53%), as reported by the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance (GSIA).

Embracing this investment appetite creates opportunities worth trillions of dollars for European banks in coming years. Financial institutions have a critical role not only in funding the transformation of energy, transport, cities, agriculture and more, but also in supporting investors by creating opportunity and access to these markets with the design of attractive, sustainable products and structures.

FT Innovative Sustainable Financing will gather bankers, policy makers, investors, influencers and advisors to discuss the next steps in harnessing the potential of green finance. Expert speakers will explore new approaches to build sustainability into their investor portfolios and discuss how the market could advance following proposals by the EU’s High Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance to make a green adjustment to minimum capital requirements. The agenda will also look at the evolution of green bonds and ESG indexes, examining how they are contributing to changing investor behaviour and discover the key challenges and opportunities considered by investors with asset allocation.

Who attends?

This half-day event will bring together senior representatives from across financial services including:
• Banks
• Asset Management and Investment Firms
• Pensions Funds
• Infrastructure Finance and Investment
• PE and VC
• Insurance

2018 Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Nils Bolmstrand
CEO, Nordea Asset Managemen

Lise Kingo
CEO and Executive Director, United Nations Global Compact

Chris Hohn
Co-Founder, TCI

SPEAKERS:

Annie Bersagel
Senior Analyst, Folketrygdfondet

Martin Weymann
Head Sustainability, Emerging & Political Risk Management, Swiss Re

Frank van Lerven
Economist, New Economics Foundation

Edward Mason
Head of Responsible Investment, Investment Division, Church Commissioners for England

Dave Chen
Principal & Chairm, Equilibrium

Lorenzo Bernasconi
Senior Associate Director, The Rockefeller Foundation

Rupesh Madlani
CEO, Global Sustainable Capital Management

Iain Henderson
Head of International Cooperation, UN Environment

Vince Knowles
Investments & Strategy Manager, Ceniarth

Nazia Mintz Habib
Research Director, Resilience and Sustainable Development Programme, University of Cambridge

Alistair Clark
Managing Director of the Environment and Sustainability Department, EBRD

MODERATORS:

Thomas Hale
Reporter, Financial Times

Javier Espinoza
Private Capital Correspondent, Financial Times

2018 Sponsor

ASSOCIATE SPONSOR:
• Ukrgasbank

MEDIA PARTNER:
• The Banker

SUPPORTING PARTNER:
• European Venture Philanthropy Association (EVPA)