ESG & Climate Risk Summit Europe 2023
Delivering practical takeaways and driving best practices in ESG and climate risk management to achieve improved market confidence, brand reputation and higher shareholder value.

Where ESG risk leaders connect, exchange ideas and make vital steps towards the new future of finance
ESG is seeing massive money inflows due to the growing importance of climate action. With global ESG assets expected to reach $53 trillion by 2025, many are searching for ways to better analyze and improve how their business and their investments perform when it comes to impact-investment decision making.
The event will gather senior risk management and investment strategy decision makers from asset managers, hedge funds, life insurance firms, pension funds and investment banks in the UK and Europe online, guaranteeing that you gain new ideas, new connections and a new perspective on ESG risk management and climate risk.
Key 2023 themes include:
ESG investments and Net Zero goals
The current headwind for ESG investments and Net Zero goals
Recession and economic downturn
How will this impact investors’ appetite for ESG investments?
Navigating regulatory requirements and expectations
Including disclosure requirements; stress testing requirements
Investors Debate
Measuring Climate Risk and ESG
Analytics/ data/ ways of measuring climate risk and ESG. Models: what works and what doesn’t?
Climate promises
Practical implementation and delivering on climate promises in your organisation
Transition Finance
Using Transition Finance as a key to getting to the Net Zero targets
Capital requirements
Addressing capital requirements over climate risk
Biodiversity
Looking beyond climate: focus on biodiversity etc
Our 2022 experts included:

Nick Stansbury
Head of climate solutions
Legal & General Investment Management
Nasreen Kasenally
Chief risk officer, asset management and sustainability, Emea
UBS
Nasreen Kasenally is the global chief risk officer and head of sustainability risk at UBS Asset Management. She is a senior risk professional with over 20 years of experience mostly at UBS covering investment banking, asset and wealth management. In her role as chief risk officer, Kasenally is responsible for all financial risks within UBS Asset Management globally and in all the business divisions of UBS Group in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Within sustainability, she has the oversight of the risks across the group and leads the engagement and positioning to deliver the firm’s purpose and values with regards to sustainability.

Christian Kjaer
Head of liquid markets
ATP
Christian Kjær is Senior Vice President and ATP’s Head of Liquid Markets, an in-house risk-balanced multi-asset investment team with overall responsibility for the liquid part of ATP’s investment portfolio. He is a member of the investment committee, the committee for social responsibility and the corporate governance forum within ATP. Christian has previously held responsibility for global equities, inflation and volatility in ATP which he joined in 2015 as Portfolio Manager.
Prior to joining ATP Christian was Head of Inflation Trading in Nordea Markets. Before that he held positions in the Insurance and Pension Solutions Group at Credit Suisse, the Institutional Solutions group at Nordea Markets and Mckinsey & Company
Christian holds a M.Sc in Economics and a Ph.D in Economics (Game Theory) from the University of Aarhus, Denmark
In his spare time, Christian enjoys hanging out with his family and loves taking his race bike for a spin in the countryside

Lakshmi Murthy
Global lead, climate risk, ESG and sustainability analytics
Credit Suisse
Lakshmi Murthy is the Global lead for Climate Risk Strategy and ESG Analytics at Credit Suisse.
She is an experienced Financial Services leader with a passion for building scalable data-enabled products to solve business problems using advanced analytics.
Lakshmi has a Master’s degree in Computer Science from India, and an Master’s degree in Business Analytics from NYU Stern School of Business

Will Hadfield
Investing editor
Risk.net
Will Hadfield runs the investing team for Risk.net, overseeing coverage of hedge funds, conventional asset managers and insurance companies. He previously covered market structure for Bloomberg News in London, both as a reporter and an editor. He studied history at the University of Durham and speaks French.
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Top 25 firms attending in 2022

BNY Mellon is a global investments company dedicated to helping its clients manage and service their financial assets throughout the investment lifecycle. Providing financial services for institutions, corporations or individual investors, BNY Mellon delivers informed investment and wealth management and investment services in 35 countries.
Lloyds Bank – Commercial Banking
Supporting British businesses and the UK economy continues to be central to what we do. Growing our lending, supporting with day-to-day business needs and helping to protect you from the growing threat of financial fraud, are just some of the ways where we can support.
Through relationship-led support, clients receive core banking solutions such as lending, deposits, transaction banking and risk management services. They also benefit from extensive expertise in capital markets, financial markets and private equity, all of which aims to meet the varying and often complex client needs, regardless of their sector, location or objectives.
As part of Lloyds Banking Group, in 2020 we lent £31 billion to businesses which included £1.1bn to support manufacturing. Supporting a more sustainable, low-carbon economy that is resilient to climate change impacts is also essential. In 2020, over £2.3bn of green finance was made available in Commercial Banking, helping clients in their journey to transition to more sustainable business models. This increased our total green finance support to over £7.3bn since 2016.
All lending is subject to status.
Societe Generale is one of the leading European financial services groups. Based on a diversified and integrated banking model, the Group combines financial strength and proven expertise in innovation with a strategy of sustainable growth, aiming to be the trusted partner for its clients, committed to the positive transformations of society and the economy.
Active in the real economy for over 150 years, with a solid position in Europe and connected to the rest of the world, Societe Generale has over 149,000 members of staff in 67 countries and supports on a daily basis 31 million individual clients, businesses and institutional investors around the world by offering a wide range of advisory services and tailored financial solutions. The Group is built on three complementary core businesses:
- French Retail Banking, which encompasses the Societe Generale, Crédit du Nord and Boursorama brands. Each offers a full range of financial services with omnichannel products at the cutting edge of digital innovation;
- International Retail Banking, Insurance and Financial Services to Corporates, with networks in Africa, Russia, Central and Eastern Europe and specialised businesses that are leaders in their markets;
- Global Banking and Investor Solutions, which offers recognised expertise, key international locations and integrated solutions.
Societe Generale is included in the principal socially responsible investment indices: DJSI (World and Europe), FTSE4Good (Global and Europe), Euronext Vigeo (World, Europe and Eurozone), four of the STOXX ESG Leaders indices, and the MSCI Low Carbon Leaders Index.

Schroders is an independent global asset management company with over 210 years of investment heritage. Asset management is our business and our goals are completely aligned with those of our clients – the creation of long-term value.
We manage $650 billion on behalf of institutional and retail investors, financial institutions and high net worth clients from around the world, invested in a broad range of asset classes across equities, fixed income, multi-asset and alternatives. We employ over 5,600 talented people worldwide operating from over 34 different countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia Middle East, and Africa.
We manage over $38bn on behalf of Official Institutions and have a dedicated team to support these institutions.


Stand: 41
Legal & General are one of the UK’s leading financial services companies and have been insuring homes for over 90 years.
Come and see us at Stand 48 to meet our dedicated Broker Team and find out how we’re using technology and automation to improve the claims process.
You’ll also have the chance to win one of our famous brollies. We look forward to seeing you there.

HSBC is a financial services organisation that serves more than 40 million customers, ranging from individual savers and investors to some of the world’s biggest companies and governments. Its network covers 64 countries and territories, and its expertise, capabilities, breadth and perspectives open up a world of opportunity for its customers. HSBC is listed on the London, Hong Kong, New York, Paris and Bermuda stock exchanges.


BNP Paribas is a leader in banking and financial services and has a long association with the official institutions' sector. The Group is present in nearly 75 countries globally enabling clients to benefit from a range of services including corporate & institutional banking; asset servicing and asset management. www.bnpparibas.com BNP Paribas Asset Management is the asset management arm of BNP Paribas, and offers high value-added solutions to individual savers, companies, and institutional investors. We have a broad range of skills in four investment divisions: Equities, Fixed Income, Private Debt & Real Assets, and Multi-Asset, Quantitative and Solutions (MAQS). Sustainability is at the heart of our strategy and investment decision-making process. Our aim is to achieve long-term sustainable investment returns for our clients. We have assets under management of USD 475 billion (as of 30 September 2019), with 520+ investment professionals and 500+ client servicing specialists, serving clients in 71 countries. To learn more, visit bnpparibas-am.us.
DWS is one of the world's leading asset managers with EUR 700 billion of assets under management (as of December 31, 2017). Building on more than 60 years of experience and a reputation for excellence in Germany and across Europe, DWS has come to be recognized by clients globally as a trusted source for integrated investment solutions, stability and innovation across a full spectrum of investment disciplines.
We offer individuals and institutions access to our strong investment capabilities across all major asset classes and solutions aligned to growth trends. Our diverse expertise in Active, Passive and Alternatives asset management - as well as our deep environmental, social and governance focus - complement each other when creating targeted solutions for our clients. Our expertise and on-the-ground-knowledge of our economists, research analysts and investment professionals are brought together in one consistent global CIO View, which guides our strategic investment approach.
DWS wants to innovate and shape the future of investing: with staff from 35 nationalities, speaking more than 75 languages rooted in 22 countries, we are local while being one global team.
DWS為全球首屈一指的資產管理公司之一,旗下管理的資產總值7,000億歐元(截至2017年12月31日)。憑藉60多年來在德國和歐洲累積的經驗及讚許,DWS提供的綜合投資方案、穩健策略和創新思維,涵蓋全方位投資領域,備受環球客戶投以信賴一票。
我們為個人及機構投資者,提供各主要資產類別選擇及捕捉增長潛力的投資方案,把握每個投資機遇。我們運用主動、被動和另類資產管理的多元專業知識,融會我們對環境、社會和監管方面的深入和清晰了解,為客戶創造目標為本的投資方案。我們的經濟學家、研究分析師及投資專才,將其豐富的專業知識和地區經驗,匯集成環球「投資總監觀點」(CIO View),引領戰略性投資決策。
DWS致力推動創新,塑造未來投資格局:我們的投資專才來自35個國家、於22個國家扎根及熟識逾75種語言;環球團隊擁有國際視野同時緊貼地區脈搏,全力為客戶規劃資產管理方案。
DWS グループ GmbH & Co. KgaA(以下DWS)は、約6,760億ユーロ(2018年3月末時点)の運用資産残高を誇る世界有数の資産運用会社です。60年以上の運用実績を有し、ドイツおよびヨーロッパ各地において優れた運用体制への評価を確立してきました。そして現在、DWSは世界のお客さまから、資産運用のあらゆる分野における総合的なソリューション、持続性および革新性を提供する運用会社として信頼を集めています。
DWSは個人および機関投資家のお客さまに対し、その強固な運用体制を基盤として、すべての主要な資産クラスへのアクセスと成長トレンドを適切に捉えた資産運用ソリューションを提供します。アクティブ、パッシブそしてオルタナティブ運用における多岐にわたる専門性と、ESG(環境、社会、企業統治)投資における積極的な取り組みは、お客さまの期待に応えるソリューションを提供する上で補完的な役割を果たします。エコノミスト、リサーチアナリスト、運用プロフェッショナルが有する専門性と現地に根ざした調査は、DWSのグローバル投資見通しである「CIO View」に集約され、それが戦略的な運用アプローチ策定の根幹となっています。
DWSでは、35の国籍から成るスタッフが75以上の言語を駆使しながら、一つのグローバル・チームの一員であるという高い意識を持ちつつ、各国・地域に精通する専門家として22カ国で活躍しています。我々は資産運用に革新をもたらし、未来に向けた資産運用ビジネスを形作ることを目指しています。




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