Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI) Virtual Conference 2022

OVERVIEW

21st UN-Climate Change Conference’s (COP21) Paris agreement milestone to recent 26th UN-Climate Change Conference (COP26) continue to call for global action to prevent temperatures from rising above 2 degrees Celsius is crucial to reach net zero emissions by 2050. Malaysia is committed to be a carbon-neutral country in 2050 at the earliest. One of the initiatives to achieve this is through the plan of setting up a domestic emissions trading scheme and voluntary carbon market focusing on forestry and land use.

Following the recent launch of the Securities Commission’s Capital Market Masterplan 3 (CMP3), one of the strategic priorities is aimed at facilitating industries and businesses to transition to low carbon activities, which will enhance their relevance and competitiveness in the global market. Hence, it is timely for businesses to assess the exposure to climate change-related risks, plans, and be ready to embrace this push for a carbon-neutral economy.

At the SRI 2022, discussions will revolve around key catalysts advancing sustainability agenda focusing on crucial climate impact considerations, transparency and disclosures as well as the technology and ESG talent supporting the initiatives towards sustainable business and living.

OBJECTIVE

This programme is designed to help business leaders and policy makers to advance sustainability strategy into action in the wake of the 26th UN-Climate Change Conference (COP26) that has shown how climate action become mainstream business. It also aims to provide an important platform in which leaders and wide-ranging stakeholders will discuss various topics ranging from policy interpretations, sustainable business operations, development and talent readiness to thrive in a dynamic landscape where global industry and business collaboration, society’s activism, and innovation acceleration drive climate and biodiversity ambitions.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of this programme, participants will be able to:

• Discuss the key factors and catalysts in shaping greener capital market landscape
• Formulate forward thinking business strategies to rise to the challenge of the net zero pledge and commitment to climate action
• Analyse climate related risks, implications, opportunities and potentials as key factors in business decision making
• Discuss sustainable transformation drivers and strategies in enabling circular economy innovative measures supporting for sustainable business and living
• Examine the taxonomy framework for greater transparency and consistency
• Appraise the spill over effects of investment to the economy and society from various green long-term investments
• Examine the potentials and challenges of ClimateTech in providing solutions towards supporting net zero agenda
• Discuss the initiatives and practices applied across industries in balancing the needs of businesses and investors to improve the ‘S’ and ‘G’ objectives and impact
• Formulate forward looking strategies in building purpose-driven leadership and ESG talent towards sustainable business and living

METHODOLOGY

The conference will be delivered virtually with live and interactive presentations, talks, conversations and panel discussions.