OVERVIEW

The Financial Times and IFC have launched the FT/IFC Sustainable Finance Conference and Awards 2012, the leading global summit and awards programme designed to recognise banks and other financial institutions that demonstrate leadership and innovation in integrating environmental, social and corporate governance considerations into their business.

Now in their seventh year, the Sustainable Finance Awards reflect the growing role that the financial sector plays in addressing some of the world's most pressing challenges, including climate change and environmental degradation, social exclusion, food security, improving access to finance and using technology to better serve the world's poor.The deadline for entries is March 15, 2012. For more details and entry forms, please click here.
 

The Conference will discuss the fundamental challenges of resource security and climate change, and the large sections of society -- in particular, women -- that continue to suffer social and financial exclusion that hinders development. It will explore how financial institutions from both developed and emerging economies can tackle these issues, the lessons they have already learned on sustainability, how they can influence business more widely, and what governments can learn from them. For more details, please click here

The Conference and Awards Dinner will be held on 14 June 2012 at the Landmark Hotel in London. Registration will open soon. To stay updated, please click here.