Sustainable investment workshop

Description

Investment is the life blood of the economy. Yet the choice about what is invested in and how substantially impacts sustainable development outcomes and the impact on the environment.

Society needs to see a transition towards more sustainable business and economies, yet the transition for many small and medium sized businesses (that make up much of the UK economy) most often requires finance and sometimes a level of risk taking to make the transition.

This is the first of a series of UWE workshops that focuses on these as related sustainable finance challenges. Providing an open engagement platform to develop the field, between academics, business and policy makers.

Programme

9:30 - Registration

Speakers

10:00 – Daniel Proctor, Director of Future Leap Finance will be speaking on: “Supporting SME investment into the sustainability journey”

10:45 – Ian Brooks, Senior Lecturer at UWE Bristol will be speaking on: “Comparison of sustainability analyst scores from Bloomberg”

Themed break out groups

11:30 – “Quality of ESG data and differences between analysts. What is really ESG.”

11:30 – “Encouraging employee and consumer behaviour towards sustainable finance”

12:00 – Report back for break out groups

12:30-13:30 – Lunch

Themed break out groups

13:30 – “EU Taxonomy versus UK taxonomy for sustainable activities”

13:30 – “Transition pathways and decisions on sustainable investment”

14:00 – Report back for break out groups

14:30 – Round up and conclusion of the workshop

15:00 – Event ends