Navigating UN Disclosure & Reporting Initiatives

Keith Mullin

In this video, Keith covers some ESG initiatives under the UN umbrella, such as the UNFCCC, SDGs, and UNEP FI. On the banking and investment front, he outlines the Principles for Responsible Investment, the PRI, and the Principles for Responsible Banking, the PRB.

Disclosure & Reporting

Overview

The urgency to protect the environment has given rise to one of the most powerful calls to action the world has ever seen. It’s a call that has unified governments, businesses, the financial sector, consumers and broader society.

Efforts to protect the planet and make the world a better place have accelerated only in the past decade so we’re at early stages. Led by the European Union, governments around the world are now starting to codify vague and tenuous concepts around environmental sustainability and using them to force convergence to ambitious targets.

The United Nations has played a key role in pushing the ESG agenda and is behind many of today’s core workstreams. Key UN agencies driving the principal work streams include the UNFCCC, the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, who developed the SDGs, and the UNEP FI.

Key learning objectives:

Understand how the UN has been driving the ESG agenda
Identify some of the key UN agencies driving ESG

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Keith Mullin

Keith is the founder and director of KM Capital Markets, a media and thought-leadership consultancy. He spent the past 35 years working in specialist capital markets media and has had a ring-side seat at all of the major market events. Prior to setting up KM Capital Markets in 2017, Keith worked at Thomson Reuters.