ISFCOE - International Sustainable Finance Centre of Excellence

As the festive season approaches, we at ISFCOE would like to wish all our followers, partners, and supporters a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Thank you for being part of our journey in 2024. Together, we've made great strides in advancing sustainable finance and creating a better future for all. Here's to a prosperous 2025!

Last month saw the 7th edition of Sustainable Finance Week Ireland, supported by Skillnet Ireland, proudly sponsored by AIB and coordinated by ISFCOE - International Sustainable Finance Centre of Excellence. The week saw a range of great conversations focused on Transition and Nature Finance, Social and Gender Finance and AI. Thank you to all of our supporters and sponsors, Maples, ILIM, Arthur Cox, Euronext, IoB, Aviva, S&P and Philip Lee. And a big thank you to the team at the CBI for hosting the European Leg of the Global UNDP Insurance Summit. On a personal note, this SFWI was my last as I finish up here at the end of the year, it's been a pleasure collaborating with so many great leaders, and to see so much progress in this space over the past number of years. I'm looking forward to seeing the series progress further in 2025. Sarah Dempsey CBD FPRII, Anne Williamson, Justin Sullivan, Ireland for Finance, Mary Whitelaw, Eoin Diffley, Catherine Daly, Catherine Madden, Laura Brouder, Eoin Fahy, Philip Brennan

A heartfelt thank you to all those who supported Sustainable Finance Week Ireland 2024! 💚   Your involvement made this year’s event a resounding success. - Proudly sponsored by AIB - Supported by Skillnet Ireland - In association with Department of Finance Ireland - Sponsored by Arthur Cox LLP, Aviva, Climate-KIC, Euronext, Irish Life Investment Managers, IOB, Maples Group, Philip Lee LLP, S&P Global Ratings Together, we’re shaping the future of finance! #SFWI2024

Explore the latest global insights into sustainable finance in our Research Insights Monthly Digest 🌍📘 This edition features: 📊 Global research highlights, including the Climate Policy Initiative’s Global Landscape of Climate Finance 2024 and the OECD’s Working Paper on Biodiversity and Development Finance. 💡 Updates from COP29, including discussions on the New Climate Finance Goal and the scaling of the Loss and Damage Fund. 🌱 Practical takeaways on how finance is evolving to tackle critical challenges in climate, biodiversity, and social equity. Stay tuned for next week’s comprehensive roundup of Sustainable Finance Week Ireland 2024, where we’ll delve into the key themes, discussions, and takeaways from this year’s event. #SustainableFinance #ResearchDigest #COP29 #ClimateFinance #ISFCOE

Sustainable Finance Week 2024 hosted by ISFCOE - International Sustainable Finance Centre of Excellence brought together leaders, innovators and changemakers from across sectors to take stock and explore how we can drive real, impactful change in sustainable finance practices. In this short video, our Head of ESG Sarah Thompson looks back at the events that took place during the week. This included the session she participated in, which looked at advancing gender equality in sustainable finance and how this can drive sustainable economic growth, as well as our collaborative event with Euronext on transition finance and bond issuances, which featured Aisling Kelly and Maedhbh Clancy from our Finance Group. For more on Arthur Cox's ESG group, visit our website here: https://lnkd.in/gKU58NZc #SFWI2024

As part of Sustainable Finance Week, CUMA was delighted to hold a one-day specialist training event titled “Advancing ESG Leadership – Peer Learning, Collaboration, and Innovation for Irish Credit Unions”, last Wednesday 27th November at the Horse and Jockey Hotel. The Sustainable Futures Team from KPMG Ireland delivered a very insightful training session. Many thanks to all delegates who attended and to all of the team at KPMG Ireland. ISFCOE - International Sustainable Finance Centre of Excellence Sustainable Finance Skillnet #CUMA #CreditUnions #CEOs #ManagementTeam #SustainaibleFinanceWeek #SFWI2024 #Sustainability #Decarbonisation #ClimateRisk #NatureBasedSolutions #ESGReporting #Collaboration Lisa Stapleton Suzanne Ryder Hortense Mansell

  The UN convened Global Sustainable Insurance Summit at the Central Bank of Ireland proved to be a meaningful day bringing together a wide range of topics around how insurance must play a pivotal role in driving the Sustainability agenda. Insurance contributes strongly in building resilient societies and has the power to influence positive change. The Summit was well attended by the UN, regulators and other policymakers and insurance providers amongst others. I was pleased to convey the importance of Health and how we can incentivise healthy behaviours to change the nature of risk and increase healthy life expectancy. If we can reduce the disease burden in this way it also has the positive effect of reducing demand for healthcare and hence the emissions associated with this. We know that the climate emergency is also a health emergency and it is critical that we advance preventative risk measures to support a better world and contribute positively towards the UN SDGs. Well done to Butch Bacani at the UN and all participants that are championing this cause. #Sustainability Central Bank of Ireland Butch Bacani Ricardo Lara Lauretta Filangieri Bruno Lepoivre Isabelle Moulin Sharon Donnery Stephen Nolan Mardi McBrien Gabrielle Durisch Coenraad Vrolijk

Last Wednesday, our co-founder & CEO Coenraad Vrolijk was invited by the ISFCOE - International Sustainable Finance Centre of Excellence to Dublin to discuss "how insurance can enable climate solutions and reduce risks as industries transition to sustainability". Coenraad shared the stage with Gabrielle Durisch (Allianz), Steven Whiddett (Aon), Alex Campbell (Long Duration Energy Storage Council (LDES Council)) & Butch Bacani (United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)) to discuss the critical role of insurance in the transition to net zero.   Insurance is present in every mature industry, and carbon markets should be no different. Coenraad emphasized that insurance will enable developers, buyers, and investors to invest with confidence in carbon markets and to allow those markets to scale by providing a centralized, efficient, and regulated risk-bearing capacity.

Our monthly highlights newsletter is out now! This month we are bringing you: 🗺️ More from our "Career Journeys at Arthur Cox" series, with Robert Cain 📽️ The Data Act Video series, which covers data access and sharing obligations as well as cloud switching rules with Ciara Anderson, Fionn Henderson and Shay Buckley 🌍 Highlights from Sustainable Finance Week 2024, hosted by ISFCOE - International Sustainable Finance Centre of Excellence To read more, click below: #monthlyhighlights #newsletter

📣 This week we had the privilege to add to the discussion on advancing #GenderEquality in #SustainableFinance, including sharing how #FC4S is integrating gender considerations into financial practices across financial centres throughout our network. ➡️ It was a pleasure to highlight the transformative work of our Gender Finance Working Group, showcasing the power of collaboration in driving the sustainable finance agenda. 🤝💡 Delfina Monteverdi | ISFCOE - International Sustainable Finance Centre of Excellence