Overview
Agenda
Sponsors
Date: 25 June 2024
The 2024 Annual Conference of the Green, Social, Sustainability and Sustainability-Linked Bond Principles (collectively known as the “Principles”) was held in Amsterdam on Tuesday 25 June. The Principles are the leading framework globally for the issuance of sustainable bonds and are the de facto standard referenced by over 98% of sustainable bond issuance internationally. The Principles underpin a market representing $5 trillion of securities in stock, the largest source of debt capital finance available for sustainable projects and transition finance.
The full day conference agenda combined keynote speeches and panel discussions with leading market figures and experts in sustainable finance. It featured key updates on the 2024 guidance from the Principles, as well as the critical topics being debated in sustainable finance from a global perspective including transition finance, market integrity and regulation.
Session recordings and event photos will be uploaded by 5 July.
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| 08:30 | Registration | |
| 09:00 | Welcome remarks Bryan Pascoe, Chief Executive, ICMA |
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| 09:15 | Keynote address Emmanuel Faber, Chair, the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) (Virtual) |
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| 09:30 | 10-year anniversary of the GBP: a retrospective from its leadership Open discussion between the incumbent and past chairs of the Executive Committee Panellists:
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| 10:00 | 2024 innovations and guidance from the Principles Panellists:
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| 10:45 | Break | |
| 11:15 | Panel 1: Dutch leadership in sustainable finance Moderator: Majoke Hegen, ESG Treasury Officer, NWB Panellists:
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| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:00 | Keynote address Ulf Erlandsson, CEO, Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute View presentation slides |
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| 13:15 | Panel 2: Enabling the transition with the sustainable bond market Moderator: Paul O’Connor, Head of EMEA ESG Debt Capital Markets, J.P. Morgan Securities Panellists:
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| 14:00 | Panel 3: Perspectives on innovation and policy impact in the market Moderator: Nicholas Pfaff, Deputy Chief Executive, Head of Sustainable Finance, ICMA Panellists:
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| 14:45 | Break | |
| 15:15 | Fireside Chat: Regulatory and market developments in Asia
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| 15:40 | Keynote address Christa Clapp, Global Head of Sustainable Finance Market Analytics, S&P Global Ratings |
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| 15:50 | Panel 4: Wider themes and priorities in the sustainable bond market Moderator: Romina Reversi, Managing Director, Head of Sustainable Investment Banking, Americas, Crédit Agricole CIB Panellists:
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| 16:35 | Closing remarks Nicholas Pfaff, Deputy Chief Executive, Head of Sustainable Finance, ICMA |
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| 16:40 | Networking reception | |
| 18:00 | Event close |
Lead sponsors
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As a leading global provider of credit ratings, research, and risk analysis, we offer valuable insights into the financial stability and creditworthiness of organizations, debt instruments, and securities. Credit ratings from Moody’s Ratings allow issuers to create timely, go-to-market debt strategies and capture wider investor focus. Likewise, investors gain a broad view of global debt markets through our credit ratings and research. Moody’s insights can help decision-makers navigate through market volatility. |
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At S&P Global Ratings, our analyst-driven credit ratings, research, and sustainable finance opinions provide critical insights that are essential to translating complexity into clarity so market participants can uncover opportunities and make decisions with conviction. By bringing transparency to the market through high-quality independent opinions on creditworthiness, we enable growth across a wide variety of organizations, including businesses, governments, and institutions. S&P Global Ratings is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/ratings. |
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Sustainable Fitch provides insights, tools and data that have been designed and built entirely and exclusively to help bring clarity to the ESG financial community. Our focus is, and will always be, on providing transparent, objective and substantive data that enables confidence in decision-making. To best serve our clients and partners, Fitch realized that it would be necessary to build an entirely new product suite of objective ESG data and analysis, focusing on consistency, comparability, coverage and granularity. Leaning on our expertise in best-in-class analytics and research, and reputation for transparency and integrity, our team of leading ESG experts came together to bring the financial community a robust and comprehensive ESG data and analysis solution. Powered by the human insight that has differentiated Fitch for over 100 years, Sustainable Fitch brings experience and heritage to help the financial community make smarter decisions, using the best ESG information available. |
Sponsors
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Amundi, the leading European asset manager, ranking among the top 10 global players, offers its 100 million clients - retail, institutional and corporate - a complete range of savings and investment solutions in active and passive management, in traditional or real assets. This offering is enhanced with IT tools and services to cover the entire savings value chain. A subsidiary of the Crédit Agricole group and listed on the stock exchange, Amundi currently manages more than €2 trillion of assets. With its six international investment hubs[3], financial and extra-financial research capabilities and long-standing commitment to responsible investment, Amundi is a key player in the asset management landscape. Amundi clients benefit from the expertise and advice of 5,500 employees in 35 countries. Amundi, a trusted partner, working every day in the interest of its clients and society |
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BNP Paribas is the European Union’s leading bank and key player in international banking. It operates in 65 countries and has nearly 185,000 employees, including more than 145,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main fields of activity: Commercial, Personal Banking & Services for the Group’s commercial & personal banking and several specialised businesses including BNP Paribas Personal Finance and Arval; Investment & Protection Services for savings, investment and protection solutions; and Corporate & Institutional Banking, focused on corporate and institutional clients. BNP Paribas has implemented a Corporate Social Responsibility approach in all its activities, enabling it to contribute to the construction of a sustainable future, while ensuring the Group's performance and stability. |
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The Climate Bank of the European Union The EIB is the EU’s climate bank. It finances sound and sustainable investments that contribute to the EU policy goals, notably the European Green Deal. The EIB raises the bulk of its lending resources through benchmark bonds issued in the international capital markets. Since 2007, the EIB has raised over EUR 93bn in green and sustainability bonds across 23 currencies. |
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ING is a global bank with a strong European base. Our more than 60,000 employees offer retail and wholesale banking services to customers in over 40 countries. Our purpose is to empower people to stay a step ahead in life and in business. Our products include savings, payments, investments, loans and mortgages in most of our retail markets. For our Wholesale Banking clients we provide specialised lending, tailored corporate finance, debt and equity market solutions, sustainable finance solutions, payments & cash management and trade and treasury services. Customer experience is what differentiates us and we’re continuously innovating to improve it. We also partner with others to bring disruptive ideas to the market faster. The ING Group is headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. |
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J.P. Morgan is committed to building a more sustainable and inclusive economy, from accelerating the transition to a lower-carbon world, to bridging development gaps in emerging countries, to advising on board diversity strategies and much more. In 2021, the firm set a target to finance and facilitate more than $2.5 trillion over 10 years, putting these objectives into practice by addressing climate change and directly contributing to sustainable development. J.P. Morgan is part of JPMorgan Chase & Co., a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2.6 trillion and operations worldwide. Our rich history spans over 200 years. We are a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small business, commercial banking, financial transactions processing and asset management. |
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The Luxembourg Stock Exchange established the Luxembourg Green Exchange (LGX) in 2016 with the goal of redirecting capital flows towards sustainable investments. Today, LGX displays more than 3,000 sustainable securities, raising more than EUR 1 trillion for sustainable development projects around the world. As the world’s leading platform dedicated exclusively to sustainable finance, LGX has a leading market share of listed green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked bonds worldwide. In 2020, LGX established the LGX Academy and the LGX DataHub to facilitate access to sustainable finance education and structured sustainability data, and thereby address some of the main barriers to sustainable finance today. |
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Sustainalytics, a Morningstar Company, is a leading ESG research, ratings and data firm that supports investors around the world with the development and implementation of responsible investment strategies. For more than 25 years, the firm has been at the forefront of developing high-quality, innovative solutions to meet the evolving needs of global investors. Today, Sustainalytics works with hundreds of the world's leading asset managers and pension funds who incorporate ESG and corporate governance information and assessments into their investment processes. Sustainalytics also works with hundreds of companies and their financial intermediaries to help them consider sustainability in policies, practices and capital projects. With 16 offices globally, Sustainalytics has more than 800 staff members, including more than 300 analysts with varied multidisciplinary expertise across more than 40 industry groups. |
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NIB is an international financial institution owned by eight member countries: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden. The Bank finances private and public projects in and outside the member countries. NIB has the highest possible credit rating, AAA/Aaa, with the leading rating agencies Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s |
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