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EMIA Notes - May 29, 2023
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Recordings of Prior Webinars
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1. AXA Investment Managers Join The Emerging Markets Investors Alliance
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We are thrilled to announce that AXA Investment Managers’ Emerging Market Debt and Equity Teams have joined our asset manager members alongside AllianceBernstein, abrdn, Barings, T. Rowe Price, and others.
The Emerging Markets Investors Alliance initiated the Asset Manager Membership Program in late-2020. Companies wishing to join us must meet participation requirements to remain in good standing. In return, EMIA offers several benefits to our members, including access to our Research Library and to our collective engagement activities.
For more information on becoming a member, please contact Claire Meier Underhill at claire.meier@emia.org.
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2. EMIA Partners with the Mexican Institutional Stock Exchange (BIVA) on its first BIVA Day UK
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We would like to invite you to join us at the Mexican Institutional Stock Exchange (BIVA) on its first BIVA Day UK 2023 on June 12, 2023, in the Old Library at Lloyd’s in London.
EMIA is partnering with BIVA on this unique opportunity to meet Mexican issuers, both in debt and equity, from the local stock market and to hear panel discussions covering a range of sustainability challenges unique to Mexico.
Issuers such as America Movil, Fibra UNO, Vinte, Fibra Hotel, Fibra Shop, Fibra Plus, Gentera, Cox Energy America, Orbia, Fresnillo, Rotoplas, Javer, Fibra Terrafina, Nacional Financiera, Banobras, OMA, Traxion, Fibra Monterrey, GAP, OMA, Vesta, Aleatica, CYDSA, among others, will be on hand for small group and 1-1 meetings as well as part of the general agenda.
The small group and 1-1 meetings will provide an excellent platform for a deeper understanding and long-term vision of Mexico’s potential in sustainable finance and to explore new opportunities in this rapidly growing market.
Our President and CEO, Ashok Parameswaran, will moderate a panel on Overcoming ESG Challenges in Mexico.
For registration and more information, please click here.
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| Open to: EMIA members, partners, and affiliates; financial professionals; civil society and multilateral ESG experts; and staff of national governments and publicly listed companies. |
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June
06
10:00 am EDT
3:00 pm BST
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1. How Stock Exchanges Can Create Sustainable Investment Opportunities: Bolsa Institucional de Valores (BIVA) and the Mexican Private Sector
(ESG Initiative Webinar)
Tuesday, June 6, 8 am Mexico City / 10 am EDT / 3 pm BST
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Many emerging market corporates struggle to keep pace with investors' demands for sustainability information. Stock Exchanges can provide a critical leadership role for both equity and debt issuers. They can also offer higher-quality engagement with investors on complex sustainability information and performance.
Maria Ariza, Bolsa Institucional de Valores (BIVA) CEO, and Iker Vinageras Massieu, Corporate Issuers & Head of ESG Solutions at BIVA, will discuss BIVA’s incubator program that helps Mexican corporates with equity and debt offerings, understand investor demand for sustainability information, and deliver relevant data.
BIVA's work showcases best-in-practice leadership skills on how stock exchanges globally can play a key role in supporting higher quality disclosures and best practice adoption, as well as Mexican corporates’ desires to lead on sustainability best practices.
Speakers:
Maria Ariza, CEO, BIVA
Iker Vinageras Massieu, Corporate Issuers & Head of ESG Solutions, BIVA
Claire Meier Underhill, Head, Memberships & Partnerships, EMIA (moderator) |
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June
08
10:00 am EDT
3:00 pm BST
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2. Nature - An Overlooked Risk and Unrealized Opportunity for Financial Institutions
(Financial Institutions Program Webinar)
Thursday, June 8, 9 am Colombia / 10 am EDT / 3 pm BST / 4 pm South Africa
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Biodiversity is inextricably linked to climate change, food security, clean air and water, and our health and safety. According to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), we have altered approximately 75% of the earth’s land and are getting closer to a global biodiversity threshold, which if crossed, could lead to its irreversible decline and large-scale economic loss.
Financial institutions play a crucial role in protecting and reversing biodiversity loss via their investments, loans and insurance; not only to companies with high exposure to it but also via their supply chains. At the same time, their investments, loans and insurance portfolios are also at risk from extreme weather effects, and the social and economic loss associated with it.
The webinar will focus on the status of biodiversity, its risks and opportunities to society and the economy, and actions and frameworks available to financial institutions to tackle such an important issue. EM financial institutions will also talk about the challenges and opportunities associated with it.
Speakers:
Annelisa Grigg, Board Member (Partnership Biodiversity Accounting Financials), Senior Associate (Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, Cambridge University), Fellow (UNEP-WCMC), Director (Globalbalance Ltd.) and Technical Committee - Biodiversity (Global Reporting Initiative)
Gert Kruger, Chief Risk Officer, FirstRand
Catalina Cano Zapata, Leader of International Agenda on Sustainability, Bancolombia
Maria Tinedo, Director, Financial Institutions Program, EMIA (moderator) |
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June
09
10:00 am EDT
3:00 pm BST
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3. GHG Accounting in Metals & Mining
(Extractive Industries Program Webinar)
Friday, June 9, 10 am EDT / 3 pm BST
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Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have become an important metric widely used by investors on par with earnings and other financial parameters. Yet, it entered the realm of investment management very recently, and the approaches to GHG measurement and reporting are still being hammered out.
Estimates of emissions and their intensity often vary for similar processes. The breadth of reporting and materiality criteria are still being discussed. Neither consumers nor producers know with certainty the amounts of embodied emissions in the products they buy and sell.
Our partners at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment have been involved in the COMET project aimed at harmonizing the GHG calculation framework for mineral supply chains. During this work, they conducted in-depth research on the current shortcomings of GHG accounting. John Biberman, Senior Policy Associate from the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, has agreed to come to our webinar to talk about the findings of this research, about important issues in accounting for GHG emissions in the metals and mining industry, and their implications for investors.
Speakers:
John Biberman, Senior Policy Associate, CCSI
Pavel Laberko, Director, Extractive Industries, EMIA (moderator) |
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June
15
11:00 am EDT
4:00 pm BST
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4. Racial Equity Pact Brazil - How the ESG Racial Protocol Engages Corporate Brazil to Better Integrate Racial Minorities Into the Professional Workforce
(Health, Education and Human Rights Program Webinar)
Thursday, June 15, 11 am EDT / 4 pm BST
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Social and specifically racial inequality is one of Brazil’s most significant challenges. Blacks, who comprise 56% of the population are starkly underrepresented among professionals. One of the top obstacles to the training of black professionals is the low quality of public education.
Pacto Promoção da Equidade Racial developed a Racial ESG Protocol for Brazil and is promoting its adoption by companies and institutional investors. The Racial ESG Protocol is an excellent opportunity for companies to develop a stand and a narrative consistent with this new demand from society and support greater social justice by promoting the productive inclusion of the Black population.
The initiative has received various awards and is supported by many national and international institutions, among others UN Global Compact and ANBIMA.
Members from Pacto Promoção da Equidade Racial and corporate Brazil will explain how the protocol has been developed, what the different elements are, how it is working so far, and how international investors can support the initiative.
Speakers:
Jair Ribeiro, Founder, Parceiros da Educação
Gilberto Costa, Head, Pacto Promoção da Equidade Racial
Uwe Schillhorn, Director, Health, Education and Human Rights Program, EMIA (moderator) |
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RECORDINGS OF PRIOR WEBINARS
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1. WWF Biodiversity Risk Filter and its Application for Agriculture and Extractive Industries (Consumer Staples Program and Extractive Industries Program Webinar), held on Thursday, May 25, 2023
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The Consumer Staples and Extractive Industries Programs held a webinar with Regula Hess, Rebekah Church, and Florian Oeschger from WWF. The speakers gave an overview of the importance of biodiversity, its interconnectedness with climate change, and physical and transition risks that its loss brings to economies and investors all over the world. The team then delved into the Biodiversity Risk Filter, a tool that allows companies and investment managers to assess their biodiversity-related risks.
The speakers also touched upon the topics of data sources, availability and quality, and explained in detail how the tool works and the future holds for its further development.
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More Prior Webinars
Our webinar recordings are available to EMIA members and partners. To watch them visit our events page.
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1. Volunteer Opportunities
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The Emerging Markets Investors Alliance could not function without its many volunteers who contribute their skills to our future. If you want to be part of our project, please send us an email at applicants@emia.org including your resume/ or LinkedIn profile, and mentioning "Volunteer Opportunities" in the subject line.
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