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Joint Conference on “Finance on the Brink: Sustainability, Simplification, and Geopolitical Pressures”
The European Banking Institute (EBI) together with University of Madrid Carlos III and in collaboration with Green Central Banking
are pleased to invite you to their joint conference on:
“Finance on the Brink: Sustainability, Simplification, and Geopolitical Pressures”
(in Madrid)
Sustainable Finance is under scrutiny. Across the globe, governments are considering paring down sustainability rules, or abandoning them altogether, while companies ponder whether to ditch “ESG” labels, or some of their letters. Too often, the discussion oversimplifies, treating climate and competitiveness, environmental and social, sustainability and geopolitics as polar opposites. We need a more nuanced discussion. Sustainability opens a space for gathering new data and intelligence, which can be a lever for nimbler companies, safer banks, and smarter supervisors.
This conference seeks a meaningful debate over the tensions and complementarities. It will be structured in three panels, covering the above topics.
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:
- Pedro Aránguez-Díaz, EBI YRG & UC3M
- Juan Carlos Delrieu, Bank of Spain
- Natasha Katz, Climate X
- Eila Kreivi, Finnvera
- José María de Paz, Pérez Llorca
- Amado Gil Martínez, Naturgy
- Peter McKillop, Green Central Banking & Climate & Capital Media
- David Ramos Muñoz, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid & EBI
- Dinita Setyawati, Ember Energy, Indonesia
- Michele Siri, University of Genoa, & EBI
- Nejc Smole, EBI
- Agnieszka Smoleńska, LSE & EBI
- David U. Socol de la Osa, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo
- Luis Eduardo Stancato da Souza, Banco Central do Brasil
CONFERENCE DETAILS:
Day 1 – 24 September 2025
(09:00 am – 03:30 pm)
Panel 1: Sustainability, Competitiveness and Data: Simplifying, Tackling Risks, and Enabling Transformation
Panel 2: Sustainability in Balance: Tensions and Alignments
Panel 3: Sustainable Finance and Geopolitics: Energy Transitions, Critical Minerals and Beyond
Day 2 – 25 September 2025: Conference of the EBI Young Researchers Group (YRG)
(09:30 am – 03:30 pm)
Panel 1: Sustainability in the EU Financial Framework: Risks, Mandates and New Frontiers
Panel 2: Sustainability in Global Value Chains: Contracts, Markets and Society
Panel 3: Simplification and its Limits: Rethinking Sustainability Disclosure in the EU
Interview/w David Ramos Muños & Nejc Smole:
