PROGRAM
9:00am – 10:00am
10:25am – 11:30am
Registration & Breakfast
Greening the Banking System
10:00am – 4:50pm
General Session
10:00am – 10:10am
Welcoming Remarks
This panel will provide in-depth focus on key
pillars of green finance in the banking system,
including: disclosure and reporting, environmental
standards in risk management, stress testing, and
fiscal measures and incentives to promote green
credit.
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
Kenneth E. Bentsen, Jr.
CEO
GFMA
President and CEO
SIFMA
Zhang Hongli
Vice President
ICBC
Madelyn Antoncic (Moderator)
Executive Director
Institutional Investment Solutions
Principal Global Investors
10:10am – 10:25am
Opening Remarks
The mandate of the Green Finance Committee
(GFC) of the China Society for Finance and
Banking is to promote the development of
green finance in China, via organizing policy
research, facilitating policy implementation, and
disseminating best practices of green finance
among Chinese financial institutions. Mr. Ma’s
remarks will focus on the recent efforts by China
in establishing its green financial system, the
outlook of China’s green finance initiatives in the
coming few years, and the recent adoption by
G20 of the Chinese proposal to launch the G20
green finance study group.
Dr. Ma Jun
Chief Economist, Research Bureau
The People’s Bank of China
Chairman
Green Finance Committee
Mark Schwartz (Moderator)
Vice Chairman
Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia
Pacific
PANELISTS
Matt Arnold
Managing Director and Global Head
of Sustainable Finance
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
William Beloe
Financial Institutions Group –
Climate Lead, Asia
IFC
Kenneth Hsi Jung Koo
Deputy General Manager
& Citi Chief Representative
Citi Orient Securities
Simon Zadek
Director
United Nations Environment
Programme
11:30am – 11:50am
Networking Break
11:50am – 12:50pm
12:50pm – 2:10pm Lunch
Catalyzing Green Investment Flows
Networking Lunch
Panelists will provide insights on steps that can
be taken to enhance the role of capital markets
in driving green investment, including, leveraging
public capital for greater private capital flow;
encouraging green bonds and international
harmonization; promoting capital market
mechanisms; and developing green guidelines for
institutional investors.
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
Xue Hefeng
Vice President
Industrial Bank Co., Ltd
2:10pm – 3:10pm
Opportunities and Challenges - Green
Finance and Smart Cities
With nearly two-thirds of the world’s population
estimated to live in cities by 2050, this panel will
discuss the momentum towards mobilizing public
and private capital for financing green sustainable
“Smart Cities”, and their needs for more efficient
energy grids, transport and digital infrastructure
- putting green finance into practice. This panel
will look at design and linkages to financing
solutions, including government support - and
discuss the opportunities and challenges facing
the development of smart cities.
Kyung-Ah Park (Moderator)
Managing Director, Head of
Environmental Markets
Goldman Sachs
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
Jin Hainian
Chief Research Officer
Noah Wealth Management Ltd
PANELISTS
David Gardner (Moderator)
Managing Director, Global Head of
Infrastructure, Energy and Export
Finance, Capital Financing
HSBC
PANELISTS
Ulrik Ross
Global Head of Public Sector and
Sustainable Finance
HSBC
Michael Sheren
Senior Bank Advisor
Bank of England
An Guojun
Deputy Secretary General
Green Finance Committee
China Society for Finance and
Banking
Michael Ka-Yue Kwok
Director
Arup
Dr. Wang Yao
Director of the Research Center for
Climate Energy Finance (RCCEF),
Central University of Finance and
Economics (CUFE)
Deputy Secretary General of China’s
Green Finance Committee
China Finance Society
Chen Yaqin
Director of Market Development
Division of Environmental Finance
Department
Industrial Bank CO., LTD(IB)
PROGRAM
3:10pm – 4:10pm
4:10pm – 4:30pm
Global Green Bond Market
& China Practices
Quzhou City Action on Green
Development
Mobilizing debt markets will be essential in
advancing green finance solutions. To achieve this
goal, the market will need to develop green bond
definitions and standards, verification, certification
and enforcement systems. This panel will focus
on global and Chinese efforts to develop the
standards that will be the foundation for robust
green finance debt markets.
Sub-national governments are leading the way on
green policy, incentive mechanisms, and attracting
private capital flows.
Mayor Du Shiyuan
Deputy Secretary of the Quzhou
Municipal CPC Committee
Mayor of the Quzhou Municipal
Government
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
Zhou Rongfang
CEO
Shanghai Clearing House
4:30pm – 5:00pm
Mushtaq Kapasi (Moderator)
Chief Representative of Asia Pacific
ICMA
Mr. Paulson will discuss how China could move the
needle on green finance under the G20 structure,
particularly when it comes to developing
innovative policies, incentives and regulatory
structures that encourage the effective allocation
of capital.
PANELISTS
Sean Kidney
CEO and Co-Founder
Climate Bonds Initiative
Benjamin Lamberg
Global Co-Head of MTNs & Private
Placements
Head of Asia Syndicate
Credit Agricole CIB
Featured Speaker:
The Green Finance Imperative
The Honorable
Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
Chairman
The Paulson Institute
Former United States Secretary of
the Treasury
Gary D. Cohn (Moderator)
President and Chief Operating
Officer
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
5:00pm – 6:00pm
Gloria Lu
Senior Director
Corporate Ratings, Asia Pacific
Standard & Poor’s
Rahul Sheth
Executive Director, Capital Markets
Solutions
Standard Chartered
Cai Tao
Deputy Director, Asset Management
Division
Shanghai Pudong Development
Bank (SPD)
NETWORKING RECEPTION