As the ferocious summer of 2023 has vividly illustrated, the climate and biodiversity emergency is now fast approaching critical tipping points. The key target of keeping global average temperature rise from breaching the 1.5C “red line” is now in jeopardy. What political decisions do we need now to ensure meeting today’s needs does not compromise the interests of all future generations?
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8:45am
9:00am
Climate Change Journalist & Commentator
9:20am
Preparing for the future of mandatory ESG disclosures
- Breaking down the CSRD and the road to compliance
- What and who will the CSRD impact? What to focus on in 2024
- What is the difference between the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the EU Taxonomy?
Companies that are starting their sustainability reporting journey are confronted with many new terms and may face initial confusion about the differences between the “Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive” or “CSRD”, “Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation” or “SFDR” and the “EU Taxonomy”
9:40am
Learn how to approach double materiality in practice:
- What exactly does it mean?
- How is it integrated in the CSRD?
- What are investors looking for?
- How companies should approach it in their sustainability reporting
Professional Accountancy Lead, Chartered Accountants Ireland
Technical Manager, Advocacy & Voice Dept, Chartered Accountants Ireland
10:05am
The European Commission is getting more serious about sustainability and joining the list of different sustainability directives, the CSDD will require companies operating both inside and outside of the European Union to demonstrate their responsibility and efforts to protect the environment, society and their suppliers.
- What is the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive?
- How is it different from other sustainability reporting directives within the EU?
- How can the CSDD help to promote sustainability across the globe?
10:25am
10:45am
STREAM 2: Setting up an effective sustainability reporting programme
STREAM 3: The path to sustainability for SMEs
11:15am
STREAM 1: ESG data challenges
11:20am
STREAM 1: ESG data challenges
Companies and asset managers discuss the most challenging issues:
- Impact of ESG data challenges on the EU’s SFDR, CSRD and other regulations
- Progress towards standardisation of data, methodologies and metrics among rating agencies and data providers
- Finding accurate data for the “s” and “g” of ESG, including diversity, culture, purpose and governance/ How to make ‘S’ an area for real impact, with creative data collection and aggregation methods, metrics, and frameworks that ensure social factors are materially known and managed.
- What are the data barriers to the growth of sustainable investing? Does ESG data help to deliver superior stock picking performance?
- Data for nature impacts and biodiversity
Brian Kennedy CFA, Senior Global Equity Portfolio Manager, Mediolanum International Funds Ltd(MIFL)
CEO, Clearstream Solutions
11:50am
STREAM 1: ESG data challenges
- Having accurate and specific data about your Scope 3 emissions is the first step in moving towards meaningful carbon reduction targets. Learn how you can leverage new technologies and ways of working with your supply chain to ensure you’re getting high-quality Scope 3 data that’s accurate and stands up to scrutiny
- Issues surrounding circular supply chain management: Hear insights and learnings from active work in this area to give you ideas and inspiration for embedding circular approaches in your supply chains.
Group Head of Innovation & Sustainability, Kilsaran Group
Sustainability Manager, HealthBeacon, Chair of Friends of the Earth Ireland, VP at Alliance to Zero, Chair of HTI Sustainability Working Group
11:15am
STREAM 2: Setting up an effective sustainability reporting programme
11:20am
STREAM 2: Setting up an effective sustainability reporting programme
Discover new systems and processes to help provide data that auditors can trust
11:40am
STREAM 2: Setting up an effective sustainability reporting programme
Plus, as the requirement for auditable, climate-related financial disclosures gathers pace, how are finance and sustainability teams working together?
12:00pm
STREAM 2: Setting up an effective sustainability reporting programme
11:15am
STREAM 3: The path to sustainability for SMEs
11:20am
STREAM 3: The path to sustainability for SMEs
- What are the main ESG drivers and challenges to finance SMEs’ green and digital transition?
- Learn more on how investors and stakeholders can support SMEs
- Discover the main ESG drivers and challenges to finance SMEs’ green and digital transition. Learn more on how investors and stakeholders can support SMEs and explore how to leverage SMEs’ awareness and access to sustainable finance
Sustainability and Environmental Management Consultant
11:55am
STREAM 3: The path to sustainability for SMEs
- Which SMEs will need to prepare sustainability reports?
- When will listed SMEs need to prepare their first report?
- Sustainability reporting standards for small and medium-sized undertakings
- Value-chain and the role of reporting of non-listed SMEs
- When will listed SMEs need to prepare their first sustainability report?
- Sustainability reporting standards for small and medium-sized undertakings
- Value chain and the role of reporting of non-listed SMEs
12:30pm
1:30pm
1:55pm
- What are the different ways of using ESG data, which metrics are proving material for investors, and what are its limitations?
- What key challenges or obstacles still need to be addressed to support the integration of ESG factors into portfolios?
- How far have we come in creating consistent, shared disclosure and reporting standards, for example with the creation of the EU Taxonomy?
- There has been a great deal of focus on the ‘E’ of ESG. What about the ‘S’ and ‘G’?
- Given the importance of biodiversity in building a sustainable future, how can institutional investors factor it into their decision-making?
Head of ESG Policy & Regulation, First Sentier Investors
Investment Director, Aviva Investments
2:25pm
Become a change-maker and effectively achieve B Corp certification. Discover the ESG standardsyou should look for when seeking out ESG investment opportunities. Be a part of this conversation and understand what it really means to be a B Corp and how you can achieve it too. This inspiring session will have you walking away from the conference with answers to these key questions:
- Who should consider becoming a B Corp
- The pathways and processes and key insights on how to achieve certification
- How you can contribute to creating an inclusive, equitable, and regenerative economic system.
Country Manager Ireland, B Lab Europe
2:45pm
- How do companies “humanise” their discussion of environmental issues?
- How are companies soliciting input from stakeholders on the environmental sustainability transition?
- How can companies improve how they communicate their efforts and progress with stakeholders?
- The evolving landscape of shareholder voting: Are corporate boards responding to successful ESG proposals from shareholders? Majority-supported shareholder
- proposals are rare, but as they start to grow, company responsiveness to their shareholders is being put to the test.
Head of Sustainability, Glenveagh Properties PLC
Global Head of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging, ISS World Services
Chief Risk Officer, Liberty Insurance