2021, the year of the ESG business change

2021 will be the ESG and Sustainable Finance year! This year, financial market players will set the foundations for their sustainable finance through the implementation of the first action required. And authorities will complete the set of regulatory measures initiated in the 2018 sustainable finance action plan, while setting the direction for the coming years with the renewed sustainable finance strategy.

January

2021, the year of the ESG business change – Outlook & milestones

AWM Monthly Briefing

During the next session organised on 25 February 2021 and starting at 9:00, our experts will talk about CSSF filing fast track & Website disclosures.

To date, the agenda of the session is the following:

09:00: Introduction (Frédéric Vonner, PwC Luxembourg)
FOCUS ON SUSTAINABLE FINANCE:
- Investing for Impact - the new Frontier of Investment Management? (Andrew McDowell, PwC Luxembourg)
- The key challenges of the Fast Track procedure and outlook on level 2 disclosure requirements (Melek Sahinoglu, PwC Luxembourg)
- A practical view on the reduced subscription tax (Sébastien Sadzot, PwC Luxembourg)
- Your Challenges: our tools to help you (Sébastien Schmitt, Sophie Perdriel and Ashraf Ammar, PwC Luxembourg)

Find more details here

February

Fast Track procedure, SFDR Level 2 and Reduced subscription tax

EMEA ESG Webinar

9 March 2021

24 hours before the SFDR deadline, are you ready and prepared for the next step?

More details here

PwC Sustainable Finance Forum

17 March 2021

PwC Sustainable Finance Forum, focusing on the relevant regulatory milestones, facilitating industry standards setting and enabling business managers to understand the impacts of ESG on their respective areas of responsibility.

More details here

Nachhaltigkeitsforum

24. März 2021

Das Thema Nachhaltigkeit ist nun offiziell ein Teil unternehmerischer Strategie und hat nicht nur Auswirkungen auf die Anlageperformance, sondern auch auf die strukturelle Situation im Wettbewerbsumfeld. Gewisse Kenntnisse und Vorbereitungen sind erforderlich, um auf die entsprechenden Änderungen und Anforderungen, die das Thema mit sich bringt, rechtzeitig und richtig zu reagieren.

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Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation – What’s next?

In the midst of the preparation to comply with the first regulatory deadline on the Sustainable Finance agenda of the European Union –the 10 March 2021 implementation deadline of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (“SFDR”)– the European Supervisory Authorities (“ESAs”) issued their “Final Report on draft Regulatory Technical Standards” (“SFDR RTS”) on 2 February 2021

Read the full article here

March

EMEA ESG Webinar, PwC Sustainable Finance Forum & Nachhaltigkeitsforum, SFDR article

Details coming soon

April

Sustainability risks - how do I measure them?

EMEA ESG Webinar

11 May 2021

More info here

PwC Sustainable Finance Forum

19 May 2021

The last weeks brought along much of the long-awaited and politically discussed inputs to the sustainability framework of the EU. The EU Climate Law compromise was reached, the EU Taxonomy 'Climate' is published and the new legislative approach to corporate sustainability reporting (Corporate Sustainability Disclosure Regulation) was issued. All complemented by a shift in mindset of the international community as exposed on the Climate Summit hosted by the US.

More details here

May

EMEA ESG Webinar, PwC Sustainable Finance Forum

Details coming soon

June

PAI & DNSH Test

Details coming soon

July

NFRD update + EFRAG

Details coming soon

September

Market trends regarding product classification & distribution (Art. 8/Art. 9)

PwC Sustainable Finance Forum

5 October 2021 (further information to follow)

Nachhaltigkeitsforum (German event)

7 October (further information to follow)

October

PwC Sustainable Finance Forum, Nachhaltigkeitsforum

Details coming soon

November

Business impacts: Taxonomy & SFDR Level 2 & Outside EU

Details coming soon

December

PwC Sustainable Finance Forum

Details coming soon

January

Outlook 2022 – Taxonomy Go Live

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Our insights over the 2021 journey

January

AWM Monthly Briefing

February

EMEA ESG Webinar

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PwC Sustainable Finance Forum

Nachhaltigkeitsforum

Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation – What’s next?

March

April

EMEA ESG Webinar

PwC Sustainable Finance Forum

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