ESG INITIATIVE Building an EM Corporate Green Bond Fund: The Regio (Real Economy Green Investment Opportunities) Fund A Conversation with Dr. Michael Ridley Director, Senior Responsible Investment Specialist Responsible Investment HSBC Global Asset Management Ltd Tuesday, January 12, 9am EST / 2pm GMT Moderated by Fergus McCormick Director of Sovereign Research Emerging Markets Investors Alliance The Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Initiative engages... read more

The second of our webinar series in partnership with the Rainforest Foundation Norway will take place on January 8 at 10am EST.  Our speaker,  Paulo Moutinho, senior scientist and co-founder of the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) will address the process of land grabbing and speculation that drives the expansion of the agricultural frontier, converting forests into pastures and plantations.  The webinar will also cover how illegally seized public... read more

                           4TH ANNUAL EM ESG CONFERENCE                                                                                                        ... read more

The Emerging Markets Investors Alliance is pleased to host our next ESG Initiative call with Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo (GMO) Climbing the ESG Learning Curve: Lessons Learned in Emerging Markets A Conversation with Hardik Shah ESG Practice Lead Niyati Dangi ESG Analyst Tuesday, November 17 9am EST/ 2pm GMT / 10pm SGT Moderated by Fergus McCormick Director of Sovereign Research Emerging Markets Investors Alliance This month’s call will feature Hardik Shah, ESG... read more

The Alliance extractive industries program hosted a webinar on Deep Sea Mining (DSM). This is a rapidly evolving area of extractives which promises an alluring new supply of minerals -- including those critical to the low carbon energy transition -- but also brings with it environmental risks that are not yet fully understood. Professor Saleem Ali of University of Delaware spoke about demand projections for critical metals and how DSM can help meet these needs; the environmental and... read more

Please join us on Tuesday, October 13, 9am EDT / 2pm BST for our next ESG Initiative Call on Sustainable Investing in Emerging Markets. Jean-Marc Routier, Director, Product Strategist, GEM Fundamental Equities will present BlackRock’s approach to sustainable investing in emerging markets. Moderated by Fergus McCormick, Director of Sovereign Research, Emerging Markets Investors Alliance.  The ESG Initiative engages global and local institutional asset managers to discuss their... read more

On Friday September 18 at 10am EDT, our Agriculture Program will host a webinar on Deforestation Risk in the Brazilian Cattle Supply Chain.  Our guests Barbara Kuepper,  Matt Piotrowski and Tim Steinweg of Chain Reaction Research will present on their recently published report Brazilian Beef Supply Chain Under Pressure Amid Worsening ESG Impacts.  One of the major issues outlined in this report is the little progress made by the meatpackers in... read more

We are pleased to announce that Vanessa Forti of The United Nations University will be the first speaker to kick off our new Telecom/Media/Tech Program on September 17 at 10am EDT.  Vanessa will give us a solid overview of the global electronics waste issue and an update on the latest policy developments in her presentation Global Monitoring of E-Waste.  Vanessa is a Program Associate at UNU where she is focused on waste quantification and the evaluation of... read more

Please join us on Friday, September 11, 11am EDT/ 4pm BST for our next Debt, Sustainability and Governance Forum: Case by Case vs. Coordination: Which is the Better Debt Relief Path for Growth?  featuring Schwan Badirou Gafari (Paris Club), Edward Cuipa (U.S. Department of the Treasury), and Doerte Doemeland (The World Bank). The Forum engages officials from international financial institutions, emerging market institutional investors, and policy experts to... read more

Please join us on Tuesday, September 1, 9am EDT/ 2pm BST for our next Debt and Fiscal Governance working group call with Ian Carruthers Chair, International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board (IPSASB). Moderated by Fergus McCormick, Director of Sovereign Research, Emerging Markets Investors Alliance.  The Debt & Fiscal Governance Working Group engages policymakers, independent policy experts, and emerging markets... read more