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Canbury Conversations: U.S. Sustainable Policy Landscape with Satyam Khanna

Join Satyam Khanna and Canbury’s Will Martindale in discussion of the U.S. sustainable policy landscape, Monday 10th June, 3pm BST. The discussion will include topics such as the U.S. SEC ESG regulations, the Inflation Reduction Act, the dynamics of the U.S. election, and the anti-ESG movement.

Satyam Khanna most recently served as a Biden Administration appointee and a lead architect of the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency—playing a pivotal role in designing the first-of-its kind climate finance program, which will mobilise financing for tens of thousands of clean energy projects across America.

Additionally, Satyam served on the Biden-Harris Presidential Transition on the financial regulators’ review team. Satyam was Chief of Staff and Counsel to SEC Commissioner Robert Jackson and, earlier, a civil servant at the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Stability Oversight Council, which identifies threats to U.S. financial stability.

In 2021, Satyam was appointed as the U.S. SEC’s Senior Policy Advisor for Climate & ESG, the agency’s first-ever official dedicated to integrating sustainability risk considerations into the securities laws, where he led the release of several pathbreaking policies that significantly enhanced accountability and transparency in the U.S. sustainability market.

Satyam is the President of Khanna Economic Strategies, a sustainability consulting firm.

We provide our clients with a full service of sustainability support – from source data through to client reporting. We pride ourselves on offering bespoke and tailored advice to our clients. Here is a selection of insights that underpin our advice.

Trip to the Boreal Forest

It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh.” – Rachel Carson, Silent Spring.

AY Young

At Canbury, I typically work with asset managers, pension funds, companies and NGOs to help them meet their sustainability goals. However, I was pleased to get creative in pursuit of our mission of making sustainability meaningful – finding the intersection between sustainability and music!

nature policy

Following the King’s Speech last week, laying out Labour’s legislative priorities for its first few months in office, we take a look at the current and future picture for nature in the UK

Divulgaciones climáticas en LATAM

Los gobiernos latinoamericanos están mejorando las medidas de cambio climático, alineadas con los estándares internacionales de presentación de informes. Estos movimientos son impulsados por la región, que conoce el año más caluroso de su historia, marcado por sequías exacerbadas y condiciones climáticas extremas.

Carbon Offsets

Carbon offsets are a controversial part of decarbonising the economy. They have made headlines a number of times, most recently due to the Science Based Target Initiative’s (SBTi) Board of Trustee’s announcement that they intend to allow “Environmental Attribute Certificates” to be used in the attainment of companies’ Net Zero targets.

Water Sustainability in Industry

As pressures on water such as climate change, population growth, and industrialisation continue to grow and, consequently, so too water scarcity, understanding and mitigating water-related risks is becoming an evermore important component of investors’ sustainability objectives.

Responsible Investing in the Middle East

With COPs in Sharm-El-Sheikh, Dubai, and this year, Baku, attention to climate change is growing in the Middle East; quickly following, is attention to responsible investment. Here, we analyse the opportunities we see in the region.

Conflict

As a sustainability theme, conflict is not one that’s well-covered by investors. Our briefing explores the steps investors can take.

Look ahead to 2024

We’re look ahead to 2024 to see what investors might expect from the months ahead.

FCA’s SDRs

Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) and investment labels.

The Inflation Reduction Act

Up to $1 trillion of public funding for clean energy and climate transition is made available by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 plus related packages (inc. The Infrastructure and Investment Jobs Act (IIJA) and The CHIPS and Science Act (CHIPS)).

corporate sustainability due diligence directive

CSDDD is a European Union directive that mandates companies to conduct and report on due diligence regarding human rights and environmental impacts within their operations and supply chains.

European Sustainability Reporting Standards

Our short investor-focused briefing on the ESRS and CSRD.

Net Zero targets

Most investors have (or soon will) set a net zero target. Here we set out the characteristics of good-practice net zero target-setting.

Transition Plans

The UK government, in its commitment during COP26, established the Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) “Disclosure Framework”

Scenarios

This briefing introduces some of the challenges associated with scenarios – and how we can help solve them.

Fiduciary Duties

Decisions made by fiduciaries cascade through the intermediation chain and in turn through the investment decision-making process.

The UK asset owner industry

For Canbury clients only. Get in touch for further details.

Social issues

For a few reasons, investors tend to give social issues less attention than environmental issues. Here we set out how investors should address social issues.

Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)

For Canbury clients only. Get in touch for further details.

Vote Consistency

In 2021, the UK Department for Work and Pensions commissioned a nonbinding study on split voting.

Biodiversity and nature

This briefing introduces biodiversity, nature, natural ecosystems and natural capital.

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Our Insights

Canbury Conversations: U.S. Sustainable Policy Landscape with Satyam Khanna

Trip to the Boreal Forest

AY Young

nature policy

Divulgaciones climáticas en LATAM

Carbon Offsets

Water Sustainability in Industry

Responsible Investing in the Middle East

Conflict

Look ahead to 2024

FCA’s SDRs

The Inflation Reduction Act

corporate sustainability due diligence directive

European Sustainability Reporting Standards

Net Zero targets

Transition Plans

Scenarios

Fiduciary Duties

The UK asset owner industry

Social issues

Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)

Vote Consistency

Biodiversity and nature

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