Greenwashing Conference: Legal & Regulatory Compliance and Risk Management Approaches

A reminder about the “Greenwashing Outlook” conference that Linklaters and AFME are hosting imminently. We look forward to seeing many of you at this event packed with an impressive line-up of expert speakers.

Wednesday 27 November 2024 | 08:30 - 14:00 GMT

Venue: Linklaters, One Silk Street, London EC2Y 8HQ (view map)

Demand for this event is high, and as such we have now closed the window for registrations. If you would like to attend but have not yet registered, do keep an eye on this blog post, as we may be able to re-open nearer the time.

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, ESMA Head of Sustainable Finance Unit; 
• Viet-Linh Nguyen, AMF Head of Sustainable Finance;
• Hayley Fletcher, CMA Interim Senior Director, Consumer Protection; and
• Pedro Faria, EFRAG Environmental leader in the technical leadership team.

Alongside these speakers, we will also be joined by advisors to policy-setters including Vanessa Havard-Williams (Lead of the Transition Finance Market Review), Mark Manning (independent advisor on sustainable finance and Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE) who will focus on greenwashing in the context of transition planning and disclosure, and Meghan O'Sullivan - Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School - who will reflect on the day's discussion against the US political backdrop.

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 10.00am we will move on to explore the wider themes, risks and opportunities relevant to not only financial services firms but 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 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.