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It is our role, as investors, to hold companies to account for the commitments they are making

Three years ago, the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a global call to action for positive change. Ever since, the global investment community has become increasingly eager to achieve some kind of “SDG alignment”. Near the anniversary of the establishment of the SDGs, this RI/ISS-ESG webinar provides an overview of how impact investing connects to the SDGs, and how investors are measuring effectiveness. What drives investors to choose the SDGs as a framework for investing and how are they approaching this? What tools are available to identify and measure companies’ contributing to the SDGs? Should SDG investments be focusing on products & services or on companies’ operations? What are the challenges to investing in the SDGs? Are the SDG even investable in mainstream investment, given the fact that many of the SDGs and targeting problems in emerging markets that are probably rather solved by modest projects rather than large listed corporates? Is there a risk of SDG-washing and sticking SDG labels on existing mainstream investments? How can this be prevented? Speakers Ladislas Smia, Co-head of Responsible Investment Research, Mirova Piet Klop, Senior Advisor Responsible Investment, PGGM Jennifer Signori, Senior Vice President, ESG and Impact Investing, Neuberger Berman Julia Hakke, Head of Responsible Investment Sales, ISS ESG Moderater: Vibeka Mair, Senior Reporter, Responsible Investor

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Hear from the UN body that is evolving the SDGs 3 years on, on the Ethical Finance 2018 conference pre-event webinar. Ahead of the Ethical Finance 2018 conference on October 22/23 in Edinburgh, meet the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the lead UN development agency for implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with governments. The UNDP is a supporting partner for the Ethical Finance 2018 Conference, along with the UK and Scottish governments. On this webinar, Responsible Investor's Managing Editor will talk to Gail Hurley, UNDP Policy Specialist for Development Finance, about the work the UNDP is doing on driving the SDGs with policy makers, and about how they see the role of investors within that. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to put your questions to UNDP about the evolution of the world’s biggest sustainability initiative! Speakers: Gail Hurley, Policy Specialist Development Finance, UNDP Hugh Wheelan, Managing Editor, Responsible Investor