Future of sustainable data and its role in achieving global sustainability goals

OMFIF and the Future of Sustainable Data Alliance (FoSDA) host an event to celebrate FoSDA’s first anniversary and to discuss how data can be leveraged to enable the achievement of the UN SDGs, Paris Agreement goals and a sustainable post-Covid recovery.

Themes center around key focus areas and actions needed in the year ahead, including the mapping of ESG data holes and gaps, taxonomies and their mapping to data, and the need for ESG data talent development globally.

Panelists:

Sean Kindey
Co-founder and CEO
Climate Bonds Initiative

Sherry Madera
FoSDA Chair;
Chief Industry and Government Affairs Officer
LSEG

Fabio Natalucci
Deputy Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department
International Monetary Fund

Verena Ross
Executive Director
European Securities and Markets Authority

Michael Sheren
Senior Advisor
Bank of England

Huw van Steenis
Senior Adviser to the CEO, Chair Sustainable Finance Steering Committee
UBS

Patricia Torres
Global Head
Sustainable Finance Solutions
Bloomberg

Simon Zadek
Chair, Finance for Biodiversity
F4B Initiative

Timings:
12:00-13:00 (London)
07:00-08:00 (New York)
20:00-21:00 (Singapore)

This meeting will be recorded and will be available on OMFIF On Demand

In partnership with:

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.

This virtual discussion is part of the OMFIF Sustainable Policy Institute. The SPI is a high level community which brings together central banks, sovereign funds, public pension funds, and their counterparts in asset management, banking and professional services to explore policy, regulatory and investment challenges posed by environmental, social and governance themes.

See more information on OMFIF’s SPI here.