Part 1 | ESG: Calculating Carbon Emissions for Financiers and Investor Assessment and Reporting
Part 2 | ESG: Legal Disclosure Requirements and Regulations
Part 3 | ESG: Social Aspects of Green Financing
The University of Miami School of Law in association with Holland & Knight, is offering a three-part series that takes an in-depth look at the core features of green financing, as well as provide analysis of its regulation and its far-reaching implications. Caroline Bradley, Miami Law Professor and Associate Dean, is an expert in climate finance and serves as the point person to coordinate the series for the law school. Speakers discuss how various industries could benefit, examine opportunities and present scenarios that could affect individuals, clients and businesses. Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) investing measures the sustainability and societal impact of an investment in a company or business. These types of investments in green financing – credit for projects promoting improved environmental outcomes and sustainability – are increasingly becoming central features of U.S. and international markets, climate change mitigation, abatement of greenhouse gas emissions and public policy decisions.
Part 1, Wednesday, April 28, 2021| ESG: Calculating Carbon Emissions for Financiers and Investor Assessment and Reporting
The first part of the series focused on the foundational issues of data, reporting and calculation, which are the undercarriage for the environmental aspects of ESG. It addressed these topics:
Current method of bank and investor ESG emissions reporting
Emerging regulatory trends and implications
Connection with developing U.S. government policy
Fundamental data and methodological questions
Presentations and a panels examined these issues from a multi-sectoral perspective (aviation, shipping, power generation and real estate) including presentation of the carbon calculator developed by the Aviation Working Group (AWG), for which Holland & Knight is international supporting counsel. The new tool calculates the emissions of aircraft and fleet portfolios, which will help ESG investors assess and report in connection with aviation financing and leasing transactions.
Topics and Presenters
Current Method of Bank and Investor ESG Emissions Reporting Jamie Martin | Executive Director, Morgan Stanley Global Sustainable Finance
Connection with Developing U.S. Government Policy Beth Viola | Senior Policy Advisor, Holland & Knight
Fundamental Data and Methodological Questions Jeffrey Wool | Partner and Director of International Law and Policy, Holland & Knight (on secondment to the Aviation Working Group)
Industrial Sectors and Presenters Aviation: Example of Carbon Calculator Developed by Aviation Working Group Daniel da Silva | Vice President, Strategic Regulatory Policy, Boeing Capital Corporation; Co-Chair, Aviation Working Group
Shipping Michael Parker | Chairman, Global Shipping, Logistics and Offshore, Citigroup Jovi Tenev | Partner, Holland & Knight
Power Generation Lara Rios | Partner, Holland & Knight
Real Estate and Related Financings Stephen Humes | Partner, Holland & Knight Mark Kalpin | Partner, Holland & Knight
Part 2, Thursday, November 4, 2021 ESG: Legal Disclosure Requirements and Regulations
In the second segment of our three-part series, the presenters took an in-depth look at two topics: the rapidly changing environment for, and content of, legal disclosure requirements relating to environment reporting, and the regulation of, and criteria for, green and sustainable financing.
Adolfo Jimenez | Chairman, Miami International Arbitration Society Claus von Wobeser | Partner, Von Wobeser, Mexico Juan Felipe Merizalde | Owner, JFM, Colombia Dyalá Jiménez | DJ Arbitraje, Costa Rica María Teresa Quiñones Alayza | QA Legal, Peru Geraldo Ovalle | YCIA Abogados, Chile Cristiano de Sousa Zanetti | Cristiano Zanetti Advogados, Brazil
Upcoming Session:
The date for the next webinar in this series will be announced in the future.
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