Join us for the launch of the COP26 declaration of asset owner climate expectations of asset management.

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This set of minimum standards will be endorsed by influential asset owners, including leading universities and charitable foundations. This will send a strong market signal to asset managers about what asset owners expect, and help other asset owners, journalists, civil society, and politicians to judge what is good practice and what is greenwash.

The initiative is led by Students Organising for Sustainability (SOS-UK) and Friends Provident Foundation, in partnership with the Charities Responsible Investment Network (CRIN) and Responsible Investment Network – Universities (RINU).

The launch will include a panel discussion, chaired by Simon Mundy, Moral Money Editor at the Financial Times. Speakers are outlined below. This will be followed by drinks and the opportunity to network, running from 5pm to 6.30pm.

The event will run on from 17:00 – 18:30 in the COP26 Learning Zone @ the Federated Hermes Fringe Festival, Skypark Site 7. Entrance is via West Greenhill Place, Glasgow, G3 8JR (What3words location ///water.slate.slam).

For those joining online, the event will be streamed live on Zoom Webinar. Click here to join.

Speakers

Simon Mundy

Moral Money Editor, Financial Times

Simon covers environmental and sustainability issues for the award-winning FT Moral Money platform and the wider Financial Times. He began his reporting career in Johannesburg, where he covered Southern Africa for the FT before a period writing on the London financial sector. He then spent seven years in Asia, heading the FT bureaux in Seoul and Mumbai. In 2019 he began a two-year journey travelling across six continents to research Race for Tomorrow (HarperCollins, October 2021), a book on the global struggle to respond to climate change.

Colin Baines
Investment Engagement Manager, Friends Provident Foundation

Colin is responsible for aligning and utilising Friends Provident Foundation’s endowment for its goal of a sustainable economy. He uses the foundation’s influence as an asset owner and shareholder to encourage asset manager and investee company behaviour change and wider system change. Previously, Colin worked for the Co-operative Bank and Group, responsible for the Co-op Bank Ethical Policy, Co-op Asset Management Ethical Engagement Policy, and Co-op Group Social Goals campaigns. He sits on advisory committees to the London School of Economics Grantham Institute and Manchester University Tyndall Centre and is vice-chair of the climate charity Possible.

Mark Campanale
Founder & Executive Chair, Carbon Tracker Initiative

Following a career in asset management, Mark founded and now chairs the Carbon Tracker Initiative, a non-profit focused on aligning the fossil fuel industry with goals of the Paris climate agreement.  Mark developed the ‘unburnable carbon/stranded assets’ capital markets thesis published in “Unburnable Carbon – Are the World’s Financial Markets Carrying a Carbon Bubble?” report in November 2011. More recently, Mark co-founded ‘Planet Tracker’ and ‘Industry Tracker’ which look at the challenges of corporate sustainability through the lends of natural capital. Mark is responsible for management strategy, board matters and developing their capital markets framework analysis. Their goal is to align capital markets with natural ecological limits to growth.

Kate Rogers
Co-Head of Charities & Global Head of Sustainability, Wealth Management

Kate has 22 years of investment experience and has been working at Schroders Investment Management since 2005. She specialises in investment on behalf of purpose-led clients and leads the company's sustainability capability, building investment portfolios that offer strong financial returns and positive impact. Kate is the chair of the Schroders Plc Global Charity Committee and member of the Schroders plc Corporate Responsibility Committee. In 2018, Kate won the Women in Investment award for her work with the Treasury, Charity Commission and FCA to establish the Charity Authorised Investment Fund.

Larissa Kennedy
National President, National Union of Students (NUS)

Larissa (23) is the President of NUS, which represents seven million students across further and higher education in the UK. Throughout her 2-year term in office, NUS seeks to grasp at the root of a broken system to de-marketise, democratise and decolonise education & build a new vision for education. Larissa is also on the Board at Students Organising for Sustainability (SOS-UK), a charity set up by students and staff at NUS in 2019 to take climate justice work further and faster in the student movement. Further to this, she is a member of the team at the Free Black University, co-creating a radical, imaginative, and transformative hub for knowledge production centred on the healing and wellbeing of Black people.

Elizabeth Passey
Convener of Court, University of Glasgow

Elizabeth is Convener of The University of Glasgow, Chairman of the Committee of Scottish University Chairs, and EXCO member of The Committee of University Chairs. She is Chairman of The Rural Payments Agency, a Member of the Board of the National Lottery Community Fund, Non-Executive Director of VPC Specialty Lending Investments PLC and a Senior Adviser to J Stern & Co. She is a Trustee (past-Chairman) of the Wye & Usk Foundation, and a founding Trustee of The Black Mountains College Project. She is an ambassador for The 30% Club and Co-Chair of The 30% Club Higher Education Initiative, and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford. She is a past Managing Director of Morgan Stanley, past Chairman of the Board of Morgan Stanley International Foundation, a past Managing Director of Investec Asset Management, and past consultant to Artemis Fund Management and EFG Harris Allday. She is a former Vice President & Member of Council of The Zoological Society of London, and former Programme Committee member of WWF-UK.