(WEBINAR) Toward sustainable finance in Asia: Deforestation and due diligence

According to WWF-Singapore’s latest Sustainable Banking Assessment, Asian financial institutions are increasingly aware of nature-related risks. Yet more is needed to develop their capacity to identify, assess and manage these risks.

Deforestation is a key nature-related impact. By investing or providing services to companies that produce, trade or process forest risk commodities - such as palm oil, soy and beef - banks and investors become exposed to regulatory, reputational and financial risk.

Join experts from WWF-Singapore and Trase to discuss:

• How Asian banks are recognising and managing nature-related risks, including in the palm oil sector
• How the finance sector is exposed to deforestation
• How due diligence processes can identify, evaluate, mitigate and manage deforestation-related risks
• The tools, data and frameworks available to support these processes

Speakers: 

• Ashish Sharma, Vice-President for Asia Sustainable Finance, WWF-Singapore
• Ben Levett, Researcher, Trase/Neural Alpha

Moderator: 

• Jolene Tan, Communications Lead, Trase

Webinar title: Toward sustainable finance in Asia: Deforestation and due diligence

Date: 28 February 2023

Time: 8.00 GMT | 16.00 SGT

Register here: https://bit.ly/ddasia23