As EU regulation rolls out potently across the E, S and G areas, translation and implementation at the country level becomes paramount. In turn, governments are evolving their domestic responses to ESG, notably on climate change based on their nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement. In the biggest European institutional markets, this is rapidly translating into pension fund attention on ESG reporting, strategy and related asset decisions.

The RI UK conference will bring together leading policy makers, regulators, investors, asset managers and service providers to examine and discuss how the UK is adapting, responding to, and advancing ESG and sustainable finance initiatives.

It is a week-long event, comprising 5 plenary discussion sessions (one per day, Mon-Fri).

UK ESG developments that will be discussed:

- The UK's 10-point plan for greening its economy as it prepares to host COP26 in 2021.

- The UK’s 1300+ pension funds running assets of circa £1 trillion are already responding to the Financial Reporting Council’s new UK Stewardship Code 2020.

- The Pension Schemes Bill will likely introduce mandatory climate risk governance and TCFD reporting for pension schemes, and trustees are already having to focus on ESG under recent DWP regulatory guidance.

- The UK government has announced it will spend at least £3bn of international climate finance on nature and biodiversity over the next five years. What will this entail?

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