2X Global CEO Jessica Espinoza and 2XChallenge Lead Jo McDonnell explained how the 2X Criteria Framework helps assess and monitor investments that empower women.

View EMIA's Questionnaire on Modern Slavery based on the The Modern Slavery Benchmarking Tool developed by Walk Free.

A group of experts led by the Rainforest Foundation Norway has developed new tools to assess the deforestation risk for a particular asset or company. To learn more about this tool, as well as about the impact of extractive industries on forests, watch the conversation we have with Erlend Trebbi, Sustainable Finance Advisor at RFN, and Karl Hogtun, Director of Governance and Biodiversity, Responsible Investments, at DNB Asset Management.

Learn about Romania's strategy on ESG financing
 

Persefoni's Chief Global Policy Officer, Emily Pierce, moderated a fireside chat session with ISSB's Vice Chair, JingDong Hua, to discuss the role that ISSB plays in developing sustainability disclosure standards.

EMIA's 8th Annual ESG Engagement Conference featured insightful presentations by ESG policy experts, issuers, and investors, aiming to delve into essential corporate and sovereign ESG themes. These sessions were designed to enhance investor engagement by showcasing best practices and fostering informative discussions and covered a wide range of panels and topics.

This webinar provided an update about GFANZ's progress and the main challenges and opportunities in emerging markets.

View this webinar to gain a comprehensive understanding of ICMM and its role in supporting sustainability in the metals and mining industry.

In this webinar, Tomasz Sawicki and Kumar Bhattacharyya from CDP shared insights from their recent report on deforestation and conversion-free supply chains, and an overview of the quality of disclosure focusing on EM companies.

International Budget Partnership (IBP) David Robins and Laura Castillo Cabral discussed the 2023 Open Budget Survey (OBS) results

UN Women speakers discussed strategies for achieving human capacity development for women and girls in education, social protection programs, and gender-responsive public procurement.

In this webinar, a panel of experts explored the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) methodology for the ICT sector, focusing on the unique challenges and opportunities faced by companies operating in emerging markets.

Continuing our webinar series on sustainable finance, a panel of experts discussed Chile’s ESG financing strategy.

In this webinar, IRMA experts shared their findings and discussed the current state of affairs and trends in responsible mining.

In this webinar, an expert explored the impacts of the anti-ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) agenda on investors in Latin America. They discussed how these policies and practices can influence investment decisions and market perception in the region.

This webinar provided insights into the construction and use of the Global Slavery Index. It also dived into specific country issues in emerging markets and offered concrete solutions based on each country's individual situation. The webinar is open to emerging markets financial professionals only.

A panel of experts from the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) delved into the PCAF standard and the challenges and opportunities for EM investors.

Dylan Hauser, Marco Tormen, Marlene Appel, Tiange Wei, and Eslam Mahdy discussed the challenges and opportunities financial institutions face while assessing and disclosing GHG emissions using the PCAF standard in emerging markets.

Current ESG criteria have brought environmental and social standards into investment decisions, but its approach to democratic versus autocratic regimes needs improvement. Indeed, it is easy to unintentionally finance autocrats by letting benchmark indices shape investor portfolios, because they include stocks and bonds of countries that fare poorly in democracy rankings. 

Marcos Buscaglia offered practical advice on how best to add or give more weight to democratic standards in the construction of investment portfolios.

Discover what happened to the U.S. Sovereign Loan Guarantee program and what implications a reformed and revitalized SLG program could have for emerging market decarbonization. Learn about the unique potential of SLGs to transform emerging market climate finance.

Embark on an insightful journey delving into the current landscape of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) factors, particularly within emerging markets, with a focused examination on Africa.