Conference moderator
Svetlana Bik, Executive Director of the National Association of Concessionaires and Long-Term Investors in Infrastructure (NACLI), Chairman of the Expert Council on the Long-Term Investments Market at the Bank of Russia
09:30 – 10:00. Registration and welcome coffee
10:00 – 12:00. Plenary session.
Russia's place in the system of transforming the financial and investment markets to ensure sustainable development
Topics for discussion
- How exactly do the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) change the investment and financial landscape? What financial innovations are the UN Global Compact, PRI and UNEP FI looking for to ensure the SDGs?
- How far off is Russia from the international processes of transformation and regulation in the field of responsible investment and financing? Do we need to wait for complete terminological clarity, or is it time to start acting all the while continuing the discussions?
- Financial and investment responsibility: international practice, the synchronisation of concepts.
- Opportunities for the authorities and investors to influence the development and financing of green infrastructure projects.
- Can a new market be launched without the will of a regulator? International experience. Government policy and incentive system.
- What are the obstacles? Barriers to investment flows, the development of green energy and infrastructure. Why is there no single member of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment Programme in Russia? Why did the work on rapprochement with the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative start and then stop?
- And what if we do not wait? Implementing sustainable development principles and ESG in corporate governance and investment strategies; the first results.
- How can we include responsible investment, green finance and ESG-factors into the strategy participants of the Russian financial and investment market adhere to?
Speakers
Mikhail Babenko, Director of the Green Economy program, WWF Russia
Vsevolod Gavrilov, Director of the Energy Efficiency and Natural Resource Use Project Management Directorate, Sberbank of Russia
Dmitry Galankin, Head of the Ministerial Project Office, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation
Daria Goncharova, Chief Sustainability Officer, Polymetal
Rashid Ismailov, Deputy Chairman of the Public Business Council for the national project, Ecology; Chairman, Russian Ecology Society
Yekaterina Levitanskaya, Senior Financial Sector Adviser, Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation (FCI) Global Practice, World Bank in Russia
Sergey Smirnov, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Centre-Invest Bank
Yuliya Sofronova, Head of Investor Services Department for Scandinavia, Central and East Europe, CIS, PRI (London)
Yury Sizov, First Deputy CEO, Leader
Vladimir Tamozhnikov, Head of the Strategic Development Department, Central Bank of the Russian Federation
12:00 – 12:30. Coffee break
12:30 – 14:30. Strategy session.
Tools for developing the practice of responsible investment and the green finance market
Topics for discussion
- National Stewardship Code – is it needed in Russia?
- Methodical (methodological) solutions and standardization in green finance. Prospects for the creation of a methodological centre and verification system in Russia.
- Green bonds on the stock exchange and their verification. Is there really currently no one to verify?
- Rankings, ratings, indices: who should be considered green and why?
- Green loans and securitisation. How should standard solutions be composed?
- Long-term money in green projects. Risk assessment and management.
- Roadmap for the formation of a green finance market in Russia.
Speakers
Dmitry Grishankov, Member of the Board of Directors, Expert RA Rating Agency; CEO, RAEKS Analytics
Vladimir Zhukov, VP for Investment Community Services, Norilsk Nikel
Vladimir Zaluzhsky, Head of Communications and Investor Services Department, Severstal
Antonina Levashenko, Head of the Russian OECD Competence and Standards Analysis Centre
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Anna Lvova, Head of International Relations and Communication Department, International Investment Bank
Maksim Remchukov, Chief Sustainability Officer, Sibur
Elena Feoktistova, Chief Operations Officer for Corporate Responsibility, Sustainability and Social Business, RUIE
Gleb Shevelenkov, Head of the Bond Market Department, MOEX
14:30 – 15:30. Lunch break
