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Summary
While many Financial Institutions have committed to reducing their portfolios’ greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and achieving ‘net zero’, less than half (45%) of the leading listed companies in the U.S. have a net-zero target, according to the S&P Global Sustainable1 Transition Tracker dataset. For those that have set commitments, not all are created equal.
The scope, ambition, and type of commitment can vary across sectors and individual companies. Understanding these differences and taking a holistic view will be important for financial institutions looking to set and meet their own targets.
Join S&P Global Sustainable1 and industry specialists for this upcoming webinar as we explore:
- The current state of investee companies net zero commitments and interim GHG emissions reduction targets
- How investors can incorporate insights on companies’ commitments in their own research and analysis
- How financial institutions are approaching setting their own portfolio decarbonisation targets
Speakers
S&P Global Sustainable1
Patrizio Trapletti
Senior Analyst, Financial Institutions Analytics, Research & Methodology
Patrizio is a Senior Analyst within the Financial Institutions Analytics, Research & Methodology team at S&P Global Horizons. In his role, he leads the development of climate- and sustainability-related analytical methodologies and solutions underpinning S&P Global Horizons's product suite for financial institutions.
Patrizio is a Senior Analyst within the Financial Institutions Analytics, Research & Methodology team at S&P Global Horizons. In his role, he leads the development of climate- and sustainability-related analytical methodologies and solutions underpinning S&P Global Horizons's product suite for financial institutions.
Patrizio's prior experience includes focussing on climate-related analysis of investment portfolios at Affirmative Investment Management, a specialist green bond fund manager as well as working on climate data, analytics and advisory services for the financial sector at ISS ESG and South Pole. Patrizio trained at the European Investment Bank and at the UN Environment Programme.
Patrizio holds an MSc in Environmental Policy from the London School of Economics and an MA in Political Science from the Catholic University of Milan.
Budha Bhattacharya
Lombard Odier Asset Management
Head of Systematic Research
Budha Bhattacharya is the Head of Systematic Research at Lombard Odier. Budha brings with him almost 20 years of Capital Markets experience having worked for several tier 1 investment banks such as Goldman Sachs, UBS, JPMorgan and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Budha Bhattacharya is the Head of Systematic Research at Lombard Odier. Budha brings with him almost 20 years of Capital Markets experience having worked for several tier 1 investment banks such as Goldman Sachs, UBS, JPMorgan and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Prior to joining Lombard Odier Budha was the Founder and Chief Technology and Product Officer of ESG IQ, a big data mining
and analytics platform at KPMG in the UK.
Apart from being a sustainability SME and a data scientist with proven experience in developing AI/ML applications, he has successfully delivered major product development and change management programs at tier one investment banks. He has successfully created and exited three startups during his career, two of them from within large institutions.
Budha pursued his doctoral studies in Quantitative Finance specializing in ESG Big data mining, analytics and scoring from the Institute of Finance and Technology at University College London. He holds an Executive MBA from INSEAD (with modules at Wharton) and an MSc Financial Economics from the University of Exeter.
For several years Budha has been an Industrial Professor of Finance and Banking and Researcher at University College London, Institute of Finance & Technology he has also lectured occasionally at Wharton and other business schools.
Within LOIM Budha leads quantitative research on the sustainability side, his main responsibilities include maintaining and improving existing systematic models and launching new ones, as well as leading technology related innovation within sustainability.
S&P Global Sustainable1
Chris Perceval
Global Head of Sustainability Market Engagement
Sagarika Chatterjee
Climate Champions
Department Director, Climate Finance
Sagarika leads on finance for the UN Climate Change High-level Champions, HE Ms Razan Al Mubarak (UAE) and Ms Nigar Arpadarai (Azerbaijan).
Sagarika leads on finance for the UN Climate Change High-level Champions, HE Ms Razan Al Mubarak (UAE) and Ms Nigar Arpadarai (Azerbaijan).
The Champions catalyse climate action and act as a bridge for non-state actors to parties to the Paris Agreement, with 13,000 non-state actors from over 130 countries in their network. This includes corporates, cities and financial institutions. The Champions’ finance priorities in 2024 include mobilising capital for developing countries, financing nature, adaptation, net zero and transition.
Sagarika initially joined the Champions on secondment from the PRI and helped establish GFANZ with the COP26 Private Finance Hub. Sagarika was PRI’s Director of Climate Change and the Environment, having set up PRI’s climate change work including the Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance, the Inevitable Policy Response and early green finance work in China. Sagarika was seconded to PRI signatory Aviva Investors, to support Aviva and the PRI Chair’s in the TCFD recommendations.
Before PRI, Sagarika worked for over ten years at F&C Asset Management, was as an investment committee member for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation for five years and a trustee at Earthwatch, an environmental research organisation. Sagarika started her career in a commercial role sourcing independently certified timber for B&Q, part of European retailer Kingfisher plc.
Sagarika serves as an expert on the advisory board of the Imperial College Business School Centre for Climate Finance and Investment, on the Global Capacity-Building Coalition Working Group and on the GFANZ workstream on Mainstreaming Transition Finance and Real Economy Transition. Sagarika has an MSc in Development Studies from University of London, a post-graduate diploma in Management Studies from the University of Oxford and a BA in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge. Sagarika is bilingual in English and Bengali.
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