OMFIF & the Future of Sustainable Data Alliance (FoSDA) hosted an event to celebrate FoSDA’s first anniversary and to discuss how data can be leveraged to enable the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Paris Agreement goals, and a sustainable post-Covid recovery.
The event took place from 13:00 to 14:00 CET on February 17th and was centered around key focus areas and actions needed in the year ahead, including the mapping of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) data holes and gaps, taxonomies and their mapping to data, and the need for ESG data talent development globally.
Speakers included:
Sean Kindey, Co-founder and CEO of Climate Bonds Initiative
Sherry Madera, FoSDA Chair and Chief Industry & Government Affairs Officer at the London Stock Exchange
Fabio Natalucci, Deputy Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department at the International Monetary Fund
Verena Ross, ESMA Executive Director & IOSCO Sustainable Finance Task Force co-lead on work stream 3 on CRAs, ESG ratings and ESG data providers
Michael Sheren, Senior Advisor at the Bank of England
Huw van Steenis, Senior Adviser to the CEO and Chair of the Sustainable Finance Steering Committee at UBS
Patricia Torres, Global Head of Sustainable Finance Solutions at Bloomberg
Simon Zadek, Finance for Biodiversity Chair
Agenda
13.00 CET: Welcome by Sherry Madera, FoSDA Chair & Chief Industry & Government Affairs Officer, LSEG
13.02-13.30 CET: PART 1 – In conversation with moderated by Sherry Madera
ESG data needs in the coming year – supervisory/user perspective
Speakers:
- Verena Ross, ESMA Executive Director & co-lead of the IOSCO STF workstream focused on CRAs, ESG ratings and data providers
- Fabio Natalucci, NGFS co-lead on bridging the data gaps & IMF Deputy Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department
- Michael Sheren, Senior Advisor, Bank of England
- Huw van Steenis, Senior Adviser to the CEO, Chair Sustainable Finance Steering Committee, UBS
13.30-13.58 CET: PART 2 – Panel discussion moderated by Danae Kyriakopoulou, Chief Economist and Director of Research at OMFIF
Key actions & focus areas in the year ahead from FoSDA partner perspective
Speakers:
- Sean Kidney, Co-founder and CEO, Climate Bonds Initiative and member of EU Platform on SF
- Simon Zadek, Finance for Biodiversity (F4B) Chair
- Patricia Torres, Global Head of Sustainable Finance Solutions at Bloomberg
13.58 CET: Concluding remarks by Sherry Madera, FoSDA Chair & Chief Industry & Government Affairs Officer, LSEG
About FoSDA
Launched in Davos in January 2020 by Refinitiv and the World Economic Forum, the Future of Sustainable Data Alliance (FoSDA) is a multi-member alliance aiming at addressing the climate crisis and sustainability issues from a data perspective and fostering collaboration in financial markets. FoSDA believes that investors need reliable, decision-ready data to confidently invest in sustainable economic activities.
Founding partners of FoSDA include: OMFIF, IIF, ASIFMA, Tsinghua University, GFMA, Climate Bonds Initiative, FinTech4good, Everledger, Oxford University, the Spatial Finance Initiative, Catapult, Finance for Biodiversity, GoImpact and Icebreaker One.