S&P Global Energy at Ecosperity Week 2026

S&P Global Energy will host a closed-door lunch co-led by Rick Lord, Head of Research & Innovation for Sustainable1, in collaboration with the S&P Global Climate Center of Excellence. The session convenes senior climate and sustainability leaders for a practical, science-based discussion on how robust methodologies and data can inform business and financing decisions amid evolving energy transition and climate-related risks and opportunities.

The discussion will feature Dr. Kimberley Drouin, Climate Scientist at S&P Global, whose work focuses on modeling physical climate hazards, including next-generation wildfire, drought, and tropical cyclone models. Guests will engage in peer exchange, with opportunities for both active participation and observation.

This is an invite-only event, please contact zelda.koh@spglobal.com

This session highlights how high-resolution hazard data, asset-level insights combined with ownership information provides a more complete picture of a company's operations and specific assets that could be exposed to physical climate risks.  We examine common blind spots in climate scenario analysis and show how asset-location data, including the ability to model adaptation measures, can improve real-time decision making for risk management, investment research and disclosure. We look at the key hazards and projected changes for the SEA region, quantifying the threat to the economy as well as size up the resilience of infrastructure in the region's major economic centers. Afterall, physical risk doesn't discriminate, but your data should.

Investing in the Energy transition - how are adaptation, geopolitics, and carbonomics interacting with each other?

• Cleantech cost curves 
• Net zero in a fractured geopolitical landscape
• Investments likely to be in the money in the long term 

This workshop explores how autonomous AI agents can support climate-aligned financial decision-making and ESG analysis. Participants will learn how AI can automate data gathering, risk assessment, and sustainability reporting across investment workflows. The session focuses on practical use cases, governance considerations, and responsible deployment of AI in sustainable finance.

Agenda

• Introduction to S&P Sustainable finance Agents and AI fundamentals
• Hands on workshop using S&P AI agent for a sustainable finance workflow
• Presentation and Discussion of results and key takeaways

Carbon market developments have been facing headwinds globally amid geopolitical conflicts that have disrupted energy supplies and trade. Under such pressure, expanding compliance-based carbon pricing regimes and increasing the prices on emissions have become even more difficult agendas. Regulators worldwide have been asked by the private sector and the public to ensure that carbon policies will not significantly raise energy costs or compromise industrial competitiveness. With all these challenges ahead, how will carbon policies be calibrated, and how will carbon markets be affected? Join us for an expert conversation to navigate through uncertainties and discover how economic, energy and climate policies will interact and evolve.

Transition credits represent a nascent but strategically important market mechanism to finance early retirement of coal-fired power plants in Asia—a region where coal still dominates energy supply and represents roughly one-third of regional greenhouse gas emissions.  Yet the market remains at an inflection point. Success depends on, Closing the financing gap between investment and credit issuance, scaling pilot projects to demonstrate bankability and harmonizing policy across host countries and buyer jurisdictions to create predictable demand. Maintaining integrity as the market grows, ensuring transition credits remain credible and differentiated from avoidance credits.

The Asia-Pacific region is at a critical inflection point for sustainable finance. Regulatory frameworks are evolving rapidly from MAS in Singapore to APRA in Australia, HKMA in Hong Kong, RBI in India, and OJK in Indonesia — while international standards on climate risk, nature disclosure, and sustainable taxonomies continue to develop and, at times, diverge.

APAC banks and insurers are navigating this complexity in real time: translating global commitments into regional portfolios, engaging clients across very different stages of transition readiness, and responding to regulatory expectations that are not always aligned across jurisdictions.

UNEP Finance Initiative in partnership with S&P Global Energy convenes this closed-door peer roundtable to create the conditions for a different kind of conversation, one grounded in shared practitioner experience rather than institutional positioning, and oriented toward collective progress rather than individual disclosure. This forum is designed around one principle: peer exchange is most valuable when it reflects genuine practitioner experience.

This is an invite-only event, please contact rong.yu@spglobal.com

The session will outline how sustainability is increasingly embedded in corporate strategy, risk management, and long‑term value creation. It will explore sustainability from a buyer’s perspective, highlighting how organizations assess portfolio‑level risks and opportunities across their supply chains. This will be complemented by the supplier’s perspective, emphasizing how companies can report with confidence, manage sustainability‑related risks, and proactively seize emerging business opportunities. The session will also have a fireside dialogue with external experts to discuss “ROI Linked to Sustainability” .

Carbon markets are at an inflection point. The finalisation of Article 6 at COP29 has hardened the architecture of international carbon flows, while across Asia‑Pacific a new generation of regulated exchanges is moving from launch to genuine market‑building. Hosted in partnership with the UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative, live roundtable brings together the exchanges at the centre of this shift, alongside leading carbon standards. The discussion will be direct: where liquidity is forming, where it has stalled, and how Article 6.2 and CORSIA are reshaping the supply calculus for APAC‑origin credits. As sovereign programmes deepen across Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia and Singapore, the focus will be on what a regionally integrated, globally connected carbon market looks like in practice—and how to separate signal from noise.

This is a closed door event, if you would like to attend please register your interest at this link and we will get back to you shortly.

Rethinking energy security amid disruption in Middle East

• Diverging government responses 
• Striking a balance between energy security and sustainability
• Renewables as a long-term solution?

AI and data centers are reshaping global energy markets—and forcing a fundamental rethink of how companies secure clean power. As demand explodes, so too do the challenges: How do you move beyond renewable certificates to guarantee carbon-free baseload power around the clock? What role do emerging technologies play? And how are shifting policy frameworks worldwide reshaping investment?

Join us for an expert conversation on the explosive growth in AI-powered data center demand and its implications for grid infrastructure, clean power procurement, and shifting policy frameworks worldwide.

Asia is poised to double its renewable capacity by 2030, adding nearly 670 GW led by India and Southeast Asia. However, realizing this growth will depend on whether renewable projects can be financed quickly enough to support rapid project build out. China’s strong manufacturing push have made cleantech components highly affordable, and PPAs remain essential for unlocking investment and corporate demand. However, project bankability is weakened across much of Asia by grid congestion, curtailment risk, unclear pricing and access rules, financially strained utilities, and slow permitting and connection processes. These challenges push up financing costs, delay projects, and ultimately influence where clean power can scale

Our panel of regional experts will tackle: the financing gap, grid bottlenecks, policy enablers, and case studies of successful projects.