Objective:

The conference will explain the legal implications of climate change for financial services – banking, investment services and financial infrastructure.

Key topics:

• The EU's three-step approach to climate action
• Enforcement approaches
• EU taxonomy of eco-compatible activities
• Methodologies for EU climate benchmarks and disclosures for benchmarks
• Corporate disclosure of climate-related information
• Microfinance and climate change adaptation
• Towards an EU Green Bond Standard
• Conceptualising climate-related physical and transition risks as financial risks
• Calibrating climate risk within the framework of capital requirements

Who should attend?

EU and national regulators/supervisors, legal officers in financial services sectors (credit institutions, investment firms, asset managers, CSDs), lawyers in private practice, compliance officers.