A momentous shift on the reporting requirements of companies, banks and the investment community is underway, driven by a growing awareness of the scale of climate risk and opportunity in financial markets.
While investors, lenders and insurers are increasingly interested in consistent data to inform investment, credit and underwriting decisions, countries are seeking to manage broader considerations of financial stability.
Join us as we dig into the practical considerations of how to do TCFD reporting, providing important insights for all market participants, from corporations to financial institutions. Our specialists will share their perspectives on the TCFD reporting journey, offering answers to common questions including:
How do I set the right carbon footprint baseline and management targets?
How do I quantify different climate risk scenarios?
How do I communicate uncertainty in TCFD disclosure?
How do I assess credit risk and opportunity in a changing climate?
How does TCFD align with other reporting standards?
How do I engage stakeholders to integrate TCFD analysis in business strategy?
Lauren SmartChief Commercial Officer, S&P Global Sustainable1, S&P Global Sustainable1
Lauren Smart is Chief Commercial Officer of S&P Global Sustainable1, with global expertise in sustainable finance. Full Bio
Lauren Smart is Chief Commercial Officer of S&P Global Sustainable1, with global expertise in sustainable finance. She leads a team committed to growing S&P Global’s ESG business with functional responsibilities for commercial strategy, go to market, product specialists, client engagement and marketing.
Prior to joining S&P Lauren was a member of the board and senior management team of Trucost responsible for the successful sale of the business to S&P Dow Jones Indices in 2016 and integrating the Trucost business into S&P Global Market Intelligence in 2018. She was integrally involved in a number of major market innovations such as developing the world’s first portfolio carbon footprint and helped grow the Trucost business from being a start up to a market leader in climate finance. Prior to Trucost, Lauren worked in Equity Research in the fund management industry and was a consultant at the UK Government’s Department for International Development working on the Millennium Development Goals.
Lauren is a regular speaker and respected commentator on sustainable finance, quoted in publications such as the Economist, Investment Week, IPE and The Actuary. In 2019 she was a speaker in Davos at the World Economic Forum on, “The future of finance”. Lauren holds a BA & MA from Cambridge University in Archaeology & Anthropology and an MSc in Anthropology & International Development from the London School of Economics.
Giorgio BaldassarriPhD, Global Head, Analytical Development Group, S&P Global Market Intelligence
Giorgio leads the Analytical Development Group, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Credit Risk Solutions. Full Bio
Giorgio leads the Analytical Development Group, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Credit Risk Solutions. His team includes highly-skilled individuals with multiple qualifications in the financial and quantitative space (FRM, CFA, PhD) and develops all credit risk statistical models that power the Credit Analytics product.
Giorgio’s team developed several statistical models to assess credit risk of public and private companies, more recently including a trade-payment model that was used to succesfully monitor payment behaviour of SMEs during the 2020 pandemic.
On the climate-change front, Giorgio’s team developed two statistical models that estimate the financial and credit risk impact of energy transition scenarios on public and private firms:
Climate Credit Analytics, developed with Oliver Wyman, offers a sector-specific, bottom-up approach for companies operating in carbon-intensive sectors.
Climate Risk Gauge, developed internally, offers a consistent and scalable view across all industry sectors.
Giorgio regularly speaks at international credit risk conferences, webinars and events (RiskMinds, RISK EMEA, IECA). More recently, he authored a paper in the Journal of Energy Markets on the credit risk implications of various carbon tax scenarios (Journal of Energy Markets, Vol 13, number 2, pages: 1-24, June 2020) and spoke at several conferences (IRMC 2020, EDHEC 2020), panel discussions (“Navigating climate risk as a financial risk”) and webinars (“Tackling climate change for banks: the culture, the data and the analytics”) on banks’ challenges to implement climate-related stress testing scenarios, climate-related scenario analysis and credit risk assessment in TCFD reporting, and impact of various carbon tax policies on public companies credit-worthiness. Minimize
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Steven BullockManaging Director, Global Head of ESG Innovation and Solutions, S&P Global Sustainable1
Steven Bullock leads the ESG Innovation and Solutions Team at S&P Global Sustainable1. Full Bio
Steven Bullock leads the ESG Innovation and Solutions Team at S&P Global Sustainable1. As head of this group, Steve has successfully led the development of Trucost's suite of climate and impact analytics products, including Carbon Earnings at Risk, Paris Alignment, Physical Risk and SDG Analytics. Steve has played a leading role on the world’s first public environmental profit and loss “EP&L” account for PUMA and supported GPIF, the world's largest asset owner, on their inaugural TCFD-aligned reporting.
Steve has also contributed to the technical development of the S&P Global Ratings Green Evaluation Tool and the recent S&P Paris-Aligned & Climate Transition (PACT) Indices.
Prior to joining S&P Global Trucost back in 2008, Steve worked as an analyst for a performance management consultancy. He holds a BA 1:1 with honors in Geography and a MSc with Distinction in Sustainable Development from the University of Exeter.
Alyson GenoveseSenior Director, Global Head of Corporate Responsibility, S&P Global
With more than 25 years’ experience in corporate citizenship and sustainability, Alyson Genovese leads S&P Global’s global corporate responsibility Full Bio
With more than 25 years’ experience in corporate citizenship and sustainability, Alyson Genovese leads S&P Global’s global corporate responsibility strategy and implementation. In this role, she oversees S&P Global’s work with nonprofit and corporate responsibility partners, the company’s employee engagement programs as well as its philanthropic work. Alyson and her team also lead the company’s ESG performance, reporting and enterprise-wide integration.
Prior to joining S&P Global, Alyson was the head of North America for the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), an independent organization providing the world’s most widely used standards for sustainability management, tracking and disclosure. Alyson was the principal owner of Cause Solutions, a strategic advisory group serving business and nonprofit organizations in program design & implementation, corporate responsibility and stakeholder engagement. She built her experience in community investment, cause branding, and stakeholder communications through earlier roles at Comcast, Cone Communications, Points of Light Foundation and more.
Alyson holds an MBA from the University of New Hampshire and a graduate certificate in nonprofit & public administration from George Mason University. She received her bachelor’s degree from Fairfield University. When not working, she can be found chasing her husband and two teenage daughters around Utah’s Wasatch Mountains.
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