• Sustainable finance & ESG – what does this all mean for the Real Estate Industry?

  • 15/03/2022

  • 11:00

  • 12:00

  • 1.0

  • Online CPD, .

  • Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) considerations, and climate in particular, are increasingly a priority for investors, lenders, insurance providers, financial policymakers, regulators and Central Banks.  This session will provide insights into what is important to the financial sector with regards to the real estate industry and consider how will this influence the industry going forward. If you’ve been hearing about the EU Taxonomy, the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), the Task force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD), Green bonds, Sustainability-linked finance, ESG investing, Green Loans and want to know more about what these terms mean and how they will influence real estate development, construction and property management, then this is the webinar for you.

    Speaker Bio: Laura Heuston, Co-Founder, SustainabilityWorks

    Laura is a Co-Founder of SustainabilityWorks, a boutique sustainability consulting firm that offers a unique blend of skills and experience across sustainable finance and sustainability strategy, policy, innovation and communications.  A Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland and a Chartered Tax Consultant, for most of her career Laura specialised in working with companies in the renewable energy and energy efficiency finance sectors, advising them on international M&A transactions, and on financing and corporate structures. In 2017, she authored a report on the opportunity for the Irish international financial services sector in relation to green finance, and she subsequently pivoted her career to focus wholly on the sustainable finance agenda, with a particular focus on ESG, responsible banking, responsible investment, energy efficiency finance, and global sustainable finance policy and regulation.  She advises clients across banking and investment on sustainability and sustainable finance, from strategy to implementation, and she lectures on sustainable finance with the University College Dublin (UCD) Smurfit Graduate Business School.

    Please login to your SCSI account prior to booking a ticket for this CPD

  • SCSI Events

  • SCSI Events

  • 01 644 5500

  • events@scsi.ie

Back To Top