Greenwashing Outlook: Legal & Regulatory Compliance and Risk Management Approaches

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Linklaters and AFME are delighted to invite you to a half-day “Greenwashing Outlook” conference.

We will be joined by

  • Fayyaz Muneer, Deputy Director for Prudential and Sustainability, Financial Services group at HM Treasury;
  • Alicia Kedzierski, Head of  Department for ESG at the FCA;
  • Viet-Linh Nguyen, Head of Sustainable Finance at the AMF;
  • Pedro Faria, EFRAG Environmental leader in the Technical Leadership team;
  • Dora Blanchet, Head of Sustainable Finance Unit at ESMA’s; and
  • Hayley Fletcher, Interim Senior Director, Consumer Protection at the CMA.

Alongside these speakers, we will also be joined by advisors to policy-setters including Vanessa Havard-Williams - Chair of the UK Government’s Transition Finance Market Review and Mark Manning - Independent advisor on sustainable finance and Visiting Senior Fellow, LSE who will focus on greenwashing in the context of transition planning and disclosure. And to conclude the conference, Meghan O'Sullivan - Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School - will set the previous discussion against the current US political context.

With the first panel session starting at 9am, the morning begins by addressing the regulatory landscape faced by all types of financial services firms. 

From 10.20am HMT’s Fayyaz Muneer will help us move on to explore the wider themes, risks and opportunities relevant to not only financial services firms but to corporates from all sectors, as he unpacks the UK government’s agenda and priorities in this space.

Throughout the conference we will be exploring, from the EU and the UK perspectives:

Specifically, we will be exploring:

  • The state of play of the various greenwashing frameworks and obligations, and their interaction both with each other across the globe and with the wider ESG landscape;
  • Greenwashing beyond the financial services regulators – with a look at the impact and influence of other regulatory regimes particularly in the competition, advertising and broader consumer-focused spaces;
  • Greenwashing litigation and enforcement trends; and
  • The impact of greenwashing regulation, supervision, litigation and enforcement trends on risk management, and practical approaches to sharing the opportunities whilst managing the risks.

Alongside representatives from HMT, your regulators, AFME and industry experts, Linklaters lawyers will provide practical insights on each of the above topics and on how firms can build organisation-wide compliance against a backdrop of myriad differing local and sectoral regimes.

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