Greenwashing Outlook Conference: Legal & Regulatory Compliance and Risk Management Approaches

As Peter Bevan says, we look forward to seeing so many of you at our forthcoming Greenwashing conference, that we're co-hosting with AFME on Wednesday 27 November.

If you would like to attend but haven't registered yet, please do so - full details and the link to register are available here.

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Overview of the conference

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; and
• Hayley Fletcher, CMA Interim Senior Director, Consumer Protection.

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 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 10.00am 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.