Paris For Tomorrow Week

ILB Launches Its ESG Lab, the One-stop Shop for Green and Sustainable Finance Practitioners!

After the success of its DataLab, composed of a team of R&D engineers in data science, the ILB launches the ESG Lab. The objective is to develop tailor-made operational solutions and to advance the state-of-the-art to meet the needs of public and private practitioners of sustainable finance.

The ILB DataLab is incubating the ESG Lab team, which has a solid foundation: 10 people with a proven track record. The ESG Lab is thus a one-stop shop for all stakeholders in green and sustainable finance. Like the DataLab, the ESG Lab is highly interactive and relies on the academic researchers and experts of the Louis Bachelier network, guaranteeing the quality of the methodologies and other deliverables produced. This enables it to work on a wide range of issues: scenarios, alignment (climate or taxonomy), footprint measurement, impact, green financial engineering and ESG data. The integration and strong interaction of the ESG Lab with the DataLab also allows it to have an advanced processing and modelling capacity.

Reliable, innovative, responsive and agile, the ESG Lab offers a wide range of support formats and sets up ad hoc project teams for projects whose organisation is similar to that of consulting (governance, interaction, etc.).

Come and discover the ESG Lab, its track record, its skills and the feedback from partners, on Tuesday 25 October at the Palais Brongniart!

Sustainable Data, Research & Engineering

Programme:

• 17h30: Welcoming of guests
• 18h-18h05: Introduction by Louis BOULANGER, Director ILB Labs
• 18h05-18h10: Pauline BECQUEY, Managing Director of Finance for Tomorrow
• 18h10-18h30: Presentation of the ILB Labs and launch of the ESG Lab by Marine NEYRET (Head of the Data Lab) and Joao SERTA (Head of the ESG Lab)
• 18h30-18h35: Academics and the ILB Labs by Julie RAYNAUD, Fellow ILB
• 18h35-19h00: Round table with ILB Labs partners, moderated by Louis BOULANGER
• Bruno LEPOIVRE, PACIFICA
• Véronique BERTHOUT, BNPP Personal Finance
• Natacha BAUMANN, BNPP Personal Finance
• Inès CECILIO, Schlumberger New Energy
• 19h-19h10: Questions/Answers
• 19h10-19h30: Discussion and Networking

G7 countries are leading the way in the world’s journey towards net zero financial reform. Financial markets will be integral in the decarbonisation process over the next decades. We can already point to many initiatives being spearheaded at the international and national level, including Japan’s exploration of the role for Transition Finance. France’s leadership in pushing their financial institutions out of coal finance, Germany’s adoption of ESG standards that have recently exposed largescale greenwashing at the DWS investment bank and the UK’s commitment to mandatory transition plan disclosure, and their intent to create the world’s first Net Zero Financial Centre by 2050.

The UK’s announcement has committed 40% of the world’s financial assets (over 130 trillion USD) to be aligned with Paris Climate goals. New international climate finance commitments will mean that much of this investment will be diverted to helping other countries decarbonise and turn to renewables. However, it is important that international support is coordinated to kickstart mobilisation of financial flows for net zero.

Bringing together initiatives like the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, and government representatives pushing for net zero financial sectors, this event will enlighten the audience on existing initiatives to green the money markets and push participants to think through what more leading global economies can do to secure green growth and create a race to the top to deliver the finance required for net zero.

Speakers
Alex Michie, GFANZ
Fiona Macklin, Race to Zero

This 8th edition of the Climate Finance Day will be dedicated to financial solutions enabling and accelerating transition and adaptation actions for a sustainable future.

The IPCC have made it clear in its last report: we can halve emissions by 2030 but the time for action is now. We are at a turning point, halfway on the pathway to reach the 2030 Agenda and the climate objectives. We need to emphasize and scale up concrete game-changing solutions that have been developed so far on transition and adaptation.

What concrete solutions the financial sector can provide to strengthen and mainstream resilience and to accompany the transition of the real economy? How to build trust and demonstrate accountability of the financial actors' actions? How to accelerate?

Join us on october 27th, in a renewed format of the Climate Finance Day, to explore the financial solutions to build a sustainable future!

Article 29: new requirements and new ambitions for 2023

During this webinar, Carbon4 Finance will review the past year’s Article 29 report with regulators and discuss the new requirements for the upcoming 2023 report.

This is an opportunity for investors to get an update on Article 29, and to discuss with the regulators:
-What has been the track record of Article 29 reporting for 2022?
-How can investors equip themselves for the upcoming Article 29 report?
-What is the level of ambition expected by regulators in 2023?

This webinar will feature Mr. Arthur Campredon, in charge of responsible finance at the French Treasury Department (DG Trésor), as well as other invited regulators (more information to come).

Carbon4 Finance and CDC Biodiversité will explain how investors can conduct a comprehensive risk assessment and comply with biodiversity and climate regulatory frameworks using the comprehensive Article 29 offering.