Helena VIÑES FIESTAS, Chair of the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance, Commissioner of the Spanish FMA, Spain is a confirmed speaker at the 2024 edition of the ESG IN INSURANCE Conference, to be held in Vienna on 16 April.

Dialogue and close cooperation among a wide range of stakeholders from the public and private sector will be crucial to deliver on the aims of the EU Taxonomy Regulation and ultimately of the European green deal and the EU climate targets for 2030 and 2050. The Platform on Sustainable Finance plays a key role in enabling such cooperation by bringing together the best expertise on sustainability from the corporate and public sector, from industry as well as academia, civil society and the financial industry.

Considering insurers’ status as the largest European institutional investors, their adherence to the principles of sustainable finance is instrumental to support economic growth while reducing pressures on the environment to help reach the climate- and environmental objectives of the European Green Deal, taking into account social and governance aspects.

In a live dialogue with Prof. Karel van HULLE, Helena VIÑES FIESTAS will address the most relevant aspects of channeling insurers’ and pension funds’ investments into the transition to a climate-neutral, climate-resilient, resource-efficient, fair and sustainable economy.

IIF 2024 – ESG IN INSURANCE Conference is a top-level environment for exchanging business insights on the future outlook for the insurance industry and how it will be shaped by sustainability, technological, regulatory and distribution drivers. The conference will focus on some of the main aspects that incorporating ESG goals may have on insurers’ business, both as risk undertakers and strategic investors. Incorporating ESG goals both in insurance underwriting and shaping insurers’ investment policies, especially in challenging context created by the climate change are among the main topics, as well as the regulatory approach.

The conference works will be chaired by Prof. Karel Van HULLE, Professor, KU Leuven - Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.

More details on the conference, as well as online registration are available on the conference website. Register before March first to benefit from the Early Bird attendance fee!