Mobilizing the next $10 trillion

When:
December 2-6 | New York City and Toronto

What:
Sustainable Finance Week, a product of collaboration between Bloomberg and our core partners, is a new center of gravity focused on accelerating the next $10 trillion in sustainable finance. Four core events will showcase the emerging trends, visionary ideas and market moving players critical to mainstreaming sustainable finance — and provide the backdrop for essential conversations, insights and leaders to emerge.

Why:
Worldwide, sustainable assets under management grew over 500% in ten years. At this rate of growth, $40 trillion will be in-market by 2020. The next $10 trillion will see the creation of the defining standards and practices for business and the markets for decades to come. It represents the mainstreaming of ESG from an ”experiment” to the everyday reality for capital markets. Let’s make it happen faster.

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Core conveners

Core convener events

Global Responsible
Investing Forum

December 2-3

Responsible investing is more than generating returns– it’s showing how these investments impact the world for the better. Hear from experts on how to maximize performance while making a difference.
Presented by Nuveen.

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Moving the Market:
SASB 2019 Symposium

December 3

The SASB Symposium convenes companies, investors, and advisors to discuss how sustainability factors drive value and how to use sustainability information to inform corporate strategies and investor recommendations. The Symposium aims to bring skeptics and true believers together to examine how organizations are considering material sustainability information and the SASB standards.

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Canadian Sustainable
Investment Forum

December 4

In conjunction with Sustainable Finance Week, Bloomberg and BMO are launching a new franchise: the Canadian Responsible Investing Forum. Taking place in Toronto, Canada, this will be Sustainable Finance Week’s first international event.

The Canadian Responsible Investing Forum will feature newsmakers and thought leaders discussing topics around sustainable finance among an influential delegation of institutional and retail investors and advisors.

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Responsible Investor
Conference New York

December 4-5

RI New York, taking place on 4-5th December 2019 at Convene, 117 West 46th Street, New York City, is the forum for 600+ investors and companies to examine a wide range of responsible investment issues. Participants will debate issues like shareholder rights and proxy access; the role of central banks, securities regulators, companies, and investors in climate risk; the increasing regulation of sustainable finance via the EU Action plan and other plans; the importance of transforming energy systems; the impact of technologies like AI and machine learning on financial portfolios; requirements for data privacy and ways to incorporate human rights and other governance factors into business strategy and investment portfolios.

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Related events

Investing in the
Blue Economy

December 3

Investing in the Blue Economy is a Responsible Investor event bringing together leading investors and policymakers to debate the short and long-term risks and opportunities associated with ocean resources as a source of financial return. Join us at the Canadian Mission to the UN on December 3, 2019 and hear expert views on how investors are developing new approaches to finance a sustainable Blue Economy.

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Art of the
Corporate-Investor
ESG Conversation

December 3-4

For the past three years, the Aspen Institute Business & Society Program has invited a small number of ESG experts – select investors, senior sustainability and corporate responsibility strategists, academics and others – to take stock of where the frenzy of interest is taking ESG and explore how we can improve ESG-related conversations, both inside companies and between companies and the market.

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IR Magazine ESG
Integration Forum

December 5

Corporate Secretary and IR Magazine are partnering to help companies respond to the growing demand for improved ESG practices and disclosures with an integrated approach to environmental, social and governance related risks.

The ESG integration forum brings investor relations, governance, risk and compliance experts together to explore the underlying factors that have driven the rise of ESG, deepen shareholder engagement, help companies identify and act on material risks, and better manage shareholder proposals. Further details about the agenda and speakers will be announced shortly.

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Forum for Better
World Leadership

December 5

Companies seek to develop business leaders for a sustainable future. At this third annual forum for Better World Leadership, business and NGO leaders will present the results of the new 2019 Nonprofit Board Leadership Study. Past studies provide evidence of the value of nonprofit board service for companies, their employees, nonprofits, and communities. This year’s study looks at company practices for nonprofit board training & matching.

In an interactive format with the audience, panelists will discuss ways in which companies can advance board service to achieve company goals for leadership development, diversity and inclusion, recruitment and retention, the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals, and sustainability.

Register here

Interested in hosting an event during Sustainable Finance Week? Please contact Tom Bloch at tbloch2@bloomberg.net.

Your leadership agenda

Bloomberg can help accelerate your leadership agenda on sustainable finance, no matter where you are in the journey.

ESG data, analytics, indices and research to enhance your investment process

Contact Patricia Torres at ptorres1@bloomberg.net for ESG solutions on the Bloomberg Terminal, and Enrique Neves-Martin at enevesmartin@bloomberg.net for more information on Enterprise Data feeds.

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Custom analysis and insights on sustainability topics via BloombergNEF – Bloomberg’s primary research group focused on industry-transforming trends and technologies driving a cleaner, more competitive future

Contact Lee Ballin for BloombergNEF at lballin@bloomberg.net.

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Brand strategy, thought leadership and creative to raise your company’s profile on sustainability among priority stakeholders

Contact Mary Catherine Fixel for Panorama: Bloomberg Media Studios at mfixel2@bloomberg.net.

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Bloomberg Good Business Hub

Changing global demographics, a rise in populist movements, and increasing awareness of environmental risks have pushed the business world to reckon with new issues. Access the Bloomberg Good Business Hub, sponsored by Nuveen, for the latest reporting on sustainable investment practices, climate risk and policy, global demographics and the changing labor market.
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