09.00 - 10.45

Mizue Unno (Japan)
Managing Director - So-tech Consulting Inc.

Yoshiyuki Makino (Japan)
Senior Director and Head of S&P Indices Tokyo - S&P Indices

S&P’s Sustainable Index Solutions for Environmentally Conscious Investors

More and more investors demonstrate a preference for sustainability to factor carbon efficiency into their investment decisions. S&P Indices strives to provide sustainable indices to enable investors to reduce their carbon exposure without abandoning their investment strategy or experiencing below-market returns.

In the past, simplistic screening approaches eliminated whole sectors or industries - such as airlines, utilities or oil companies - which created skewed portfolios. S&P's approach maintains the balance between economic sectors and countries, while adjusting individual company weightings to reduce investor exposure to the carbon footprint. As a result, the Index meets the dual goals of reducing carbon exposure while keeping the performance differential between the carbon efficient index and its parent index, known as the 'tracking error,' at moderate levels.

In this session, S&P will introduce the S&P carbon efficient index series, its significance to the environment, corporations, and investors.

Paul Hoff (Japan)
Director Business Development Asia - FTSE Group

10 Years of FTSE4Good and integration of ESG into investor practice

10 years since the launch of the FTSE4Good Index Series, it is time to reflect on progress made through evolving inclusion criteria and corporate engagement on ESG issues, and to consider how to tackle the great sustainability challenges ahead.

At TBLI CONFERENCE™ ASIA 2011, we would also like to take the opportunity to reflect on the challenges and progress made by companies in Japan, as well how collaborative investor engagement linked to the FTSE4Good has helped in improving the disclosure and corporate responsibility standards in other Asia Pacific markets.

Hazel Henderson (United States of America)
Founder and President - Ethical Markets Media (USA and Brazil)

Measuring Growing Green Sectors Worldwide

Presents the latest results of Ethical Markets Media "GREEN TRANSITION SCOREBOARD®" totaling all private investments in green sectors worldwide since 2007.
Current totals over $2 trillion. We exclude nuclear power, "clean" coal and CCS and food-based biofuels.
So far we only counted deals over $100 million, but will begin digging deeper into smaller deals under $100 million. Description of worldwide progress to measure nations' progress beyond GDP, including Canada's Index of Wellbeing, OECD's Better Life Index and Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators for the USA.
Explains how these new national scorecards influence TBL and ESG investing.