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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.

OCTOBER 2024

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!

AUGUST 2024

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

JULY 2024

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.

JULY 2024

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.

JUNE 2024

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.

MARCH 2024

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.

MARCH 2024

Conflict

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

JANUARY 2024

Look ahead to 2024

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

JANUARY 2024

FCA’s SDRs

Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR)
and investment labels.

DECEMBER 2023

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)).

DECEMBER2023

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.

NOVEMBER 2023

European Sustainability Reporting Standards

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

OCTOBER 2023

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.

OCTOBER 2023

Transition Plans

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

OCTOBER 2023

Scenarios

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

SEPTEMBER 2023

Fiduciary Duties

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

SEPTEMBER 2023

The UK asset owner industry

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

SEPTEMBER 2023

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.

SEPTEMBER 2023

Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)

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

SEPTEMBER 2023

Vote Consistency

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

SEPTEMBER 2023

Biodiversity and nature

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

SEPTEMBER 2023

The FCA's sustainability disclosure requirements

Coming Soon

Climate change

Coming Soon

Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)

Coming Soon

The UK asset owner industry

For Canbury clients only. Get in touch for further details

Canbury Conversations - Climate reporting in Latin America

Join us for a conversation with Acrux’s director, Maria Tinelli, a sustainability expert in LATAM and Canbury’s climate change reporting specialist Vishal Kumar.

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

JULY 2024

Divulgaciones climáticas en LATAM

JULY 2024

Carbon Offsets

JUNE 2024

Water Sustainability in Industry

MARCH 2024

Responsible Investing in the Middle East

MARCH 2024

Conflict

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

JANUARY 2024

Look ahead to 2024

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

JANUARY 2024

FCA’s SDRs

Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR)
and investment labels.

DECEMBER 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act

DECEMBER2023

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.

NOVEMBER 2023

European Sustainability Reporting Standards

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

OCTOBER 2023

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.

OCTOBER 2023

Transition Plans

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

OCTOBER 2023

Scenarios

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

SEPTEMBER 2023

The UK asset owner industry

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

SEPTEMBER 2023

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.

SEPTEMBER 2023

Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)

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

SEPTEMBER 2023

Fiduciary Duties

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

SEPTEMBER 2023

Vote Consistency

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

SEPTEMBER 2023

Biodiversity and nature

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

SEPTEMBER 2023

The FCA's sustainability disclosure requirements

Coming Soon

Climate change

Coming Soon

Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)

Coming Soon

The UK asset owner industry

For Canbury clients only. Get in touch for further details

Conflict

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

JANUARY 2024

Look ahead to 2024

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

JANUARY 2024

FCA’s SDRs

Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR)
and investment labels.

DECEMBER 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act

DECEMBER2023

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.

NOVEMBER 2023

European Sustainability Reporting Standards

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

OCTOBER 2023

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.

OCTOBER 2023

Transition Plans

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

OCTOBER 2023

Scenarios

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

SEPTEMBER 2023

The UK asset owner industry

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

SEPTEMBER 2023

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.

SEPTEMBER 2023

Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)

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

SEPTEMBER 2023

Fiduciary Duties

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

SEPTEMBER 2023

Vote Consistency

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

SEPTEMBER 2023

Biodiversity and nature

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

SEPTEMBER 2023

The FCA's sustainability disclosure requirements

Coming Soon

Climate change

Coming Soon

Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)

Coming Soon

The UK asset owner industry

For Canbury clients only. Get in touch for further details