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 at Linklaters LLP (One Silk Street, EC2Y 8HQ) on 27 November 2024.

We will be joined by

  • Fayyaz Muneer, HM Treasury Deputy Director for Prudential and Sustainability, Financial Services group;
  • Alicia Kedzierski, FCA Head of  Department for ESG;
  • Dora Blanchet from ESMA’s Sustainable Finance Unit;
  • Hayley Fletcher, CMA Interim Senior Director, Consumer Protection.

along with panellists from financial institutions navigating the real-life, real-time challenges in this space.

Alongside these speakers, we will also be joined by advisors to policy-setters including Vanessa Havard-Williams (Lead of the Transition Finance Market Review) and Mark Manning (independent advisor on sustainable finance and Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE) who will focus on greenwashing particularly in the context of transition planning and disclosure.

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 we will move on to explore the wider themes, risks and opportunities relevant to corporates from all sectors. 

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 remit, role and approach 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 enjoying 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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