Financial Sustainability Review: Looking Forward 2022 | Ben Caldecott, Jon Williams & Andrew Watson

Financial Sustainability Review: Looking forward to 2022. With Ben Caldecott (Oxford Sustainable Finance Group), Jon Williams (PwC) and Andrew Watson (Rethinking Capital)

Why you should watch: Post-COP, there is a lot going on. There is the GFANZ initiative, now with 450 members (though the 'integrity' of those commitments is something that is well-worth monitoring); there is the IFRS Foundation’s establishment of the ISSB ('Isby', anyone?) under the chairmanship of the ex-CEO of Danone, Emmanuel Faber; there are the first results of the BofE's incorporation of climate stress tests into its supervisory regime; there's a push to incorporate biodiversity into sustainability criteria after the Dasgupta Report; there is an almighty hoo-hah over the role of gas and nuclear in the transition to net zero; and there is the ever-present issue of the so-called 'taxonomy'. Plus a growing awareness of the social costs embodied in the 'Just Transition'. All of these (and more) covered by a very distinguished panel.

Moderator: Andrew Hilton (Director, CSFI)

Ben Caldecott is the founding director of the Sustainable Finance Group at Oxford's Smith School, and the inaugural Lombard Odier Associate Professor of sustainable finance. He is also founding director of the UK Centre for Greening Finance and Innovation, a member of the UK Green Finance Taskforce, leader of the sustainable finance theme at the Alan Turing Institute and co-founder of the Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative.

Jon Williams is a partner at PwC, where he leads the finance sector team within the Sustainability and Climate Chance Practice. He is also co-chair of the Carbon Markets and Investors Association Working Group and is project adviser to the WEF's Energy Access partnership. Prior to joining PwC, he was head of Group Sustainable Development at HSBC.

Andrew Watson is co-founder of Rethinking Capital - which he describes as 'an open community of experts in managing and measuring intangible assets' He is a former General Counsel and head of IP at Lumeon, founder of ipVA, and executive director and head of IP strategy at EY.

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