ESG Risk Assessment Criteria for Sustainable Finance (Malaysia)

Content

There are more corporates leveraging on opportunities in sustainable project financing. Companies in power, transport, and land use sector with commitments towards Net Zero would approach green energy project financing from banks. Large amount of investments are required for going green or to decarbonize.

Regulators set ESG mandates on financial institutions to assess ESG risks of corporates in financing large scale projects.

Being called Green does not necessarily ensure the project is green. Hence the companies and banks should understand ESG Finance and Risk Assessment criteria, to avoid any greenwashing and loss of reputation. ESG foundational knowledge is necessary to frame suitable due diligence questions.

Learning Outcomes

• to learn ESG risk assessment for project
• to learn ESG due diligence questions
• to gain knowledge on financing Climate risk mitigation
• to identify the right kind of data for risk assessment
• to learn of best practices within companies that contributes to better ESG ratings
• to find out what are greenwashing practices

Duration

1 hour

Speaker

Sunita Devi

Sunita is a Certified Sustainability Reporting and Audit Assurance Specialist. Her expertise lies in technical advisory of gaps related to Sustainability reporting, ESG performance, Net Zero strategy of Public Listed Companies (PLCs). Her keen eye for technical review of impact analysis in ESG investments is in accordance to the reporting and audit principles.

She is also Certified in Law and Sustainability from Oxford University.

Her advisory helps Board of Directors and Senior Management to keep their reputation in check and avoid greenwashing in their sustainability journey.

She has worked with global European companies in navigating best practices in sustainability for their Supply Chain stakeholders worldwide.

Therefore, her training, webinar, coaching, advisory and consulting services on sustainability analytics, provide holistic approaches for Senior Management to strategically run their organization at the same time drive sustainability and ESG performance.

Some of the organizations she has worked with include names such as Sunway, YTL, Prudential, Stanchart, OCBC, Starwood, Marriott, Malaysia Airports, Ancom, Swift, Air Selangor, Cenviro, Sabah Port, Hektar, Suria Capital, just to name a few.

Since 2008, Sunita has been writing on Sustainability and working on grant projects in Vietnam, Bhutan and Indonesia. She holds a Masters Degree in Knowledge Management and is currently concluding a DBA in Sustainable Development.