{"id":30393,"date":"2021-06-14T09:40:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T00:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pp.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/?p=30393"},"modified":"2021-06-14T09:40:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T00:40:20","slug":"2021-06-14-30393","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/events\/2021-06-14-30393\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Speaker Seminar \u201cA partnership between UNEP and the global financial sector for sustainable development\u201d Ms. Yuki Yasui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pp.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GuestSpeakerSession_5140488_2021S1S2_20210621-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Guest Speaker Seminar with <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Ms. Yuki Yasui<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> \u201c<em>A partnership between UNEP and the global financial sector for sustainable development<\/em>\u201d<b><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">This guest speaker seminar is organized for UTokyo students in conjunction with Case Study (Public-Private Partnerships)<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Date and Time<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\">: 18:45-20:30 on Monday, June 21, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Guest Speaker<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\">: Ms. Yuki Yasui, Asia Pacific Region Co-ordination Manager, UNEP Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), United Nations Environment\u00a0Programme<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">About the guest speaker<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\">: Ms.\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Y<\/span>uki Yasui has been working on sustainable finance for the last 18\u00a0years. She moved to the UN Environment Programme\u2019s (UNEP) Asia Pacific Office in 2018 to expand UNEP Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) activities in the region. Before joining the United Nations,\u00a0<span>Yuki\u00a0was<\/span>\u00a0at\u00a0PwC\u00a0in London\u00a0and is a qualified\u00a0chartered accountant (ACA).<span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">She has a BSc from the London School of Economics and an MSc from the University of Oxford.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/th.linkedin.com\/in\/yuki-yasui-b029a71b\">https:\/\/th.linkedin.com\/in\/yuki-yasui-b029a71b<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>A<\/b><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">genda<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Introduction<\/span><b><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Setting the scene\u2014<i>No one business can manage oneself out of today\u2019s global environmental and social (E&amp;S) risks such as climate change. What does this mean for a bank and what do you think are the solutions?<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span lang=\"EN-US\">What does \u201crepurposing of business\u201d and \u201cstakeholder capitalism\u201d mean? How are they related to the Net Zero Carbon Neutrality pledges by EU, China, Japan, Korea and the US?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span lang=\"EN-US\">Banks are urged to move from \u201cfuture takers\u201d to \u201cfuture makers.\u201d This statement is about the changing business models of banks. What are the roles of banks in the Net Zero Transition?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Conclusion\u2014<i>Why UNEP is partnering with the global finance industry<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Language<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\">: English<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Registration<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\">:<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">This lecture is only open to UTokyo students.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> Those who are not enrolled in Ca<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">se Study (Public-Private Partnerships) are asked to<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> register via the following link<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/Rou4HsfBdJAYQcWg8\">https:\/\/forms.gle\/Rou4HsfBdJAYQcWg8<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Guest Speaker Seminar with Ms. Yuki Yasui \u201cA partnership between UNEP and the global financial sector f [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[69],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-30393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-guest-speaker-seminar"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30393"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=30393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}