Save the Date: Nature Finance: Incentives and barriers workshop

On the 11th of June, the Green Finance Topic Advisory Group will be hosting a workshop entitled “Nature Finance: Incentives and barriers”. There will be options to attend the workshop both in-person and online.
During the workshop we will look at a wide range of issues associated with nature investing through the lens of academic research, policymaking objectives and practitioners experiences.
The workshop will seek to bring real-world insights on the challenges and direction of travel for policies and regulations that stimulate nature investing, how to unite multiple stakeholders’ interests in nature investing, benefits of nature investing for asset managers, nature accounting and much more. The morning will be devoted to academic research:
9:35 – 10:05 Dr Ayman Omar, ULSB, “Self-selection in the voluntary carbon market”
10-05 – 10:35 Dr Lisa Sheenan, UCD, Ireland, “Investigating the impact of climate-related risks: A regime-switching analysis of bond market dynamics and inflation expectations”
10:35 – 11:05 Prof Ania Zalewska, ULSB, “Promoting corporate biodiversity awareness: Governments versus institutional investors”
11:25 – 12:35 Prof Vikas Agarwal, Georgia State University, USA, “ESG Metrics in Executive Compensation: a Multitasking Approach”
The afternoon will be filled with the panel discussions:
13:30 – 14:45 Panel 1: Regulating Nature Finance
Moderator: Prof Ania Zalewska, ULSB
Panellists: Mark Adams, Joint Nature Conservation Committee
Louise Pryor, Ecology Building Society
Bart Reumkens, Central Bank of Ireland
Melissa Swartz, Environmental Agency
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15:00 – 16:15 Panel 2: Nature Finance in Action
Moderator: Prof Vikas Agarwal, Georgia State University, USA
Panellists: Farook Chaka, Watergates
Richard Fitton, Finance Earth
Eoin Murrey, Rebalance Earth
Alice Roberts, National Trust
Click here to view a detailed programme with the bios on the panellists.
The workshop will take place in Sir Bob Burgess Building, room 1.03, University of Leicester, LE2 6BF. To attend it in person, please fill in the registration form. The registration closes on 3 June.
If you cannot join us in person, but would like to attend the sessions online, please register using the following links:
Morning session registration link (online attendance): 9:30-12:30
Panel 1 registration link (online attendance): 13:30-15:00
Panel 2 registration link (online attendance): 15:00-16:30
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Professor Ania Zalewska
Green Finance