Webinars

Sustainalytics hosts online webinars on the ESG issues and trends that are relevant to responsible investors. These in-depth sessions offer the audience a better understanding of specific ESG risks and opportunities. Below you can find an overview of our upcoming and previous webinars including the webinar recordings, presentations and more.

UPCOMING WEBINAR - UNCONVENTIONAL OIL AND GAS WEBINAR SERIES: DEEPWATER AND ARCTIC DRILLING - June 13, 2012
Please join us on Wednesday June 13, 2012 at 10:00 EST/15:00 GMT/ 16:00 CET for the second webinar in our unconventional oil and gas series where we will discuss the potential risks faced by companies that continue to test environmental boundaries in oil and gas development.

Sustainalytics' Presenter: Alberto Serna Martín, Associate Analyst, Research Products
Guest Speaker: Hugh Wheelan, Managing Editor and Co-Founder Responsible Investor

Responsible Investments in Emerging Markets (April 2012)
In this webinar Sustainalytics discussed the ways that investors can effectively integrate an ESG strategy into their emerging market equity portfolios.

Sustainalytics' Presenters: Andrea van Dijk, Senior Manager, Research Products and Lotte Griek, Research Manager
Guest Speakers: Benjamin McCarron, Head of Research at Responsible Research and Rebecca Lewis, Investment Analyst at Arisaig Partners

Fracking under Pressure: The Environmental and Social Impact and Risks of Shale Gas Development (April 2012)
Sustainalytics details the potential risks faced by companies that continue to test environmental boundaries in oil and gas development.

Sustainalytics' Presenter: Dayna Linley, Senior Analyst
Guest Speaker: Elizabeth McGeveran, Senior Vice President, Governance & Sustainable Investment at F&C Management

License to Operate: Indigenous Relations and Free, Prior and Informed Consent (March 2012)
Sustainalytics examines the challenges of implementing free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) policies for natural resource development projects.

Sustainalytics' Presenter: Irene Sosa, Senior Analyst
Guest Speakers: Philippe Bélanger, Analyst and Assistant Director, RRSE and François Meloche, Extra Financial Risk Manager, Bâtirente

Access to Medicine: Perspectives on the Medicines Patent Pool (June 2011)
Sustainalytics explores the issue of access to medicine and the role pharmaceutical companies and their investors can play in improving access worldwide.

Sustainalytics' Presenters: Laurence Loubières, Senior Analyst and Purasisi Jinadasa, Associate Analyst
Guest Speakers: Rohit Malpani, Senior Advisor, Campaigns, Oxfam America, Ellen ‘t Hoen, Executive Director, Medicines Patent Pool and Lauren Compere, Managing Director/Director of Shareholder Engagement, Boston Common Asset Management

Complicity in the Congo: Investor Risk in the Minerals Supply Chain (October 2010)
Sustainalytics examines  the issue of conflict minerals in the technology hardware supply chain. Technology hardware companies are facing a challenge to their reputations as good corporate citizens.

Sustainalytics' Presenters: Azadeh Sabour, Senior Sustainability Intelligence Consultant and Matthew Barg, Associate Analyst
Guest Speakers: Jay Celorie, Global Program Manager for Conflict Minerals, HP and Sasha Lezhnev, Policy Advisor to The Enough Project and Executive Director of the Grassroots Reconciliation Group

The Bitter Taste of Cocoa: Supply Chain Risks and Opportunities (June 2010)
Sustainalytics examines the issue of indirect use of child labour in the cocoa industry. Despite efforts to alleviate risks in their supply chain and to be more transparent, the cocoa industry continues to be the subject of many controversies.

Sustainalytics' Presenter: Esther Hougee, Director, Research Products, Europe
Guest Speaker: Anna Pot, Senior Sustainability Specialist, APG Asset Management

Insurance and Climate Change: Taking Risk Management to the Next Level (May 2010)
Sustainalytics outlines the risks and opportunities climate change presents to the insurance industry which experiences the direct and indirect impacts of climate change, and this affects shareholders and other key investors as the number and cost of climate-related insurance claims steadily rises.

Sustainalytics' Presenter: Laurence Loubières, Senior Analyst

Sifting Through the Sand: The Alberta oil Sands and Investor (April 2010)
Sustainalytics provides an overview of the situation in the Albertan oil sands in this presentation.

Sustainalytics' Presenter: Dayna Linley, Senior Analyst