Explore the growing importance of climate scenario analysis, driven by initiatives like NGFS and ISSB standards, and its implications across financial, legal, and policy domains. Delve into the critical questions for market operators amidst concerns over scenario accuracy, ensuring effective decision-making in an uncertain climate landscape.
Sustainability as a legal duty?
A fundamental reset in investor-corporate relationships is underway. Sustainability threats to economic systems are prompting a paradigm change in our understanding of how directors’ and investors’ legal duties apply. This piece, co-authored by David and published by Bloomberg, looks at how.
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With keynote from Emmanuel Faber, Chair, International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB)
Plenary - Leading with purpose: asset owner expectations for the next 10 years
New climate commitments, greater reporting expectations and tighter manager monitoring are changing the relationship between asset owners and asset managers.
David discusses key themes in The Social Licence for Financial Markets.
In order to reorient financial markets towards social goods we need to change perceptions of finance. David Rouch tells Daybreak Europe's Roger Hearing and Caroline Hepker that regulation has a place, but so too does a recognition of finance's social purpose.
