ESG Day - 16 April 2024

We're delighted to announce that we're organising our ESG Day on 16th April 2024 in our premises. This fully physical event will consist of a plenary session in the morning followed by a variety of selective hands-on workshops.

During the event, we will focus on various aspects supporting your ESG ambitions, incl. non-financial reporting and CSRD, decarbonisation, tax incentives for ESG transition, climate and ESG risk management, as well as how technology can help your journey. We will also explore the current evolution happening in the SFDR space, focusing on investment funds..

As a change to the autumn edition, we expanded the duration of the workshops to further foster interactions between yourselves and with our experts. Note that most of the topics across the event we will cover are helpful for the financial industry players as well as for corporate players.

Date & schedule

This event will take place on Tuesday 16 April 2024 from 8.30 AM to 3.00 PM CET at our premises, including a networking lunch.

Location

PwC Luxembourg: 2 rue Gerhard Mercator - 2182 Luxembourg

Agenda

08:30 Welcome coffee & Registration
09:00

Welcome & Introduction

Frédéric Vonner, Partner, PwC Luxembourg

Session 1 - "CSRD - Are you ready for non financial reporting?" - A sneak preview

Michael Horvath, Partner, PwC Luxembourg

Julien Melotte, Partner, PwC Luxembourg

Session 2 - Driving your transition towards net zero

Olivier Carré, Partner, PwC Luxembourg

Julien Jacqué, Director, PwC luxembourg

Session 3 - Challenges and opportunities along your CSRD journey: cross-industry views

Panelists:

  • Giulia Roccia - Head of Corporate Sustainability, Quintet Private Bank (Europe) SA
  • Helena Evert - Group Director of ESG and Sustainability, Olympic Entertainment Group AS
  • Florence Cosse - Deputy Compliance Officer, Allianz Bernstein
  • Gustavo Zandona - Senior Manager Financial Reporting, Millicom International S.A.

Moderated by:

  • Frédéric Vonner, Partner, PwC Luxembourg
  • Claire Cherpion, Director, PwC Luxembourg

 

11:00 Workshop to choose upon registration - please see details below
11:45 Workshop to choose upon registration - please see details below
12:30 Lunch break
13:30 Workshop to choose upon registration - please see details below
14:15 Workshop to choose upon registration - please see details below
15:00 End of the event

In the following section you will find the details of each workshop. 

If you have any questions, please contact our Events Team by email: lu-pwc-events@pwc.lu

Workshops

  • Description : Corporates in Luxembourg can enjoy tax benefits linked to their green and digital transitions. This workshop aims at providing you with an understanding of these benefits and how to leverage on them

  • speakers : Murielle Filipucci, Nenad Ilic & Baptiste Guionnet

  • Description : Gaining trust is key for sound investor relationships. This also applies to ESG-related disclosures. Explore in this workshop commonly observed pitfalls in SFDR disclosures, and how to remediate them.

  • speakers : Geoffroy Marcassoli & Kenny Panjanaden

  • Description : On 4 December 2023, the European Supervisory Authorities published a final report setting out proposals to amend the draft RTS to the SFDR Delegated Regulation. During this session, we will focus on the key take-aways and attention points for investment fund managers.

  • Speakers : Frédéric Vonner & Melek Sahinoglu
  • Description : How our tool empowers clients to deep understand their Insurance-associated & Financed Emissions, through an interactive visual dashboard. Additionally, we will reveal our successful resolution to a major industry challenge – ensuring data availability through optimal collection, harmonization, and highly efficient data filling process.

  • speakers : Anthony Dault & Ruth Garcia Fernandez (PwC DE)

  • Description : "The CSRD and EU Taxonomy, among other regulations, require companies to address climate and ESG risks. We will explore how companies can do so with the following steps:

1- Management of climate and ESG risks

2- Development of transition/ mitigation plans and actions

3- Setting up risk management processes and controls

4- Report and disclose on the above to regulators and stakeholders

  • speakers : Amra Sejtarija, Turan Namazova & Kirti Sharma

  • Description : Practical end-to-end demonstration on how to compy with the CSRD and EU taxonomy using technology, i.e., from double materiality assessment to data colection to final sustainability statement (i.e., CSRD report)

  • Speakers : Julien Jacque & Ruggero Golini

  • Description : A practical workshop on how to get to net zero focusing on scope 3 emissions and related emissions disclosures.

  • Speakers : Julien Jacque, Ruggero Golini & Mihai Stroe

  • Description : Non-financial reporting is built on trust. This workshop will help you anticipate the expectations of your stakeholders and assure them about the robustness of your report.

  • speakers : Claire Cherpion & Olivier Mennel

  • Description : During this workshop, we will explore the regulatory context driving ESG risk management at a bank level, differentiate ESG from climate risks and share some key practical observations from European and Luxembourg banks, incl. incorporation in strategic planning processes and embedding in the risk management framework and credit processes

  • speakers : Ryan Davis & Daniel Theobald

Contact us

Frédéric Vonner

Advisory Partner, Sustainability, PwC Luxembourg

Tel: +352 49 48 48 4173

Olivier Carré

Deputy Managing Partner, Technology & Transformation Leader, PwC Luxembourg

Tel: +352 49 48 48 4174

Julien Melotte

Audit Partner, Industry & Services, Sustainability, PwC Luxembourg, PwC Luxembourg

Tel: +352 49 48 48 5287

Geoffroy Marcassoli

Audit Partner, ESG Assurance Leader, PwC Luxembourg

Tel: +352 49 48 48 5410

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