Impact Stage

Leveraging Credible Sustainability Systems for Resilient Investments

10 Sep (Thur) Day 1 : 15:50 – 16:40

Effective sustainability standards have systems to capture and share data, ensure good management systems are in place, and provides tools to track sustainability issues along the value chain. This session will explore how investors can leverage credible sustainability standards to drive better long-term management of social and environmental risk. Hearing from standards and finance institutions, the session will help you manage low-carbon and green value chains.

Session Learnings:

  • Learn how credible sustainability systems are working with investors and finance institutions to manage risks
  • Understand how data from credible sustainability systems can support and power your sustainability objectives.
  • Learn which types of sustainability systems can be trusted partners to help ensure socially and environmentally responsible returns on investment.

Post-Event Actions:

  • Understand how to integrate sustainability systems into investment risk assessment
  • Assess sustainability systems credibility components to understand which sustainability systems can be trusted to help you achieve sustainability goals.

Speakers

Alistair Monument

ISEAL

Director, Programmes

Alistair Monument joined ISEAL in August this year to support credible and effective sustainability systems through robust practices, multistakeholder engagement and supply chain solutions at a global scale. Alistair leads the Impacts and Innovations Programme, driving impact on climate, biodiversity, livelihoods and human rights while also helping to shape strategy and build global partnerships.

Before, he was WWF International’s Conservation Impact Director in Asia Pacific, supporting regional and national teams to build impactful strategies, partnerships and programmes. He previously served as Global Forest Practice leader for WWF, as the Asia Pacific Director for FSC and was the founding Director of ASI. Alistair has expertise across fields including conservation, forestry, climate, labour rights, land rights, development, standards and certification.

Feifei Teng

Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil

Market Transformation Manager

Ms. Feifei Teng joined the RSPO in August 2019 and successively served as the Country Representative of China and the market transformation manager. She works with multi-stakeholders in China to improve the awareness and leverage acceptance of sustainable palm oil, and transferring the market towards sustainability in the ways of corporations with stakeholders and various supply chain actors.

Before RSPO, Ms. Feifei served in the sustainability relevant functions in private sectors and international non-profit organisations for over 14 years. She is deeply diving in business sustainability and supply chain’s transparency, and wide knowledge on leveraging green financing tools to engage stakeholders and industry participants in the palm oil sector.

Ms. Feifei Teng has obtained a master’s degree from Fudan University and Melbourne University, and a certificate of completion of the course from MIT.

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