What is the climate risk in your business?

@Electronic event

Hvernig hafa áherslur í loftslagsmálum áhrif á uppgjör, getu fyrirtækja til að laða að sér fjárfesta og bæta kjör á lánum?



A recording of the meeting can be accessed here.

Hvernig geta fyrirtæki nýtt sér tilmæli Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) til að meta og greina frá sínum áhættum og tækifærum tengdum loftslagsmálum í sínum rekstri?

Festa, Marel and Íslandsbanki invite you to an electronic morning meeting on April 14 at 9:00 a.m. At the meeting, we will hear from the Minister of Tourism, Industry and Innovation and experts from Íslandsbanki and Marel about the impact and assessment of climate risk on business operations.

We will gain insight into the journey of companies and financial institutions, as well as hear from the minister about the government's priorities when it comes to laws and regulations on annual accounts and climate disclosure today and in the coming months.



Dagskrá:

• Moderator: Hrund Gunnsteinsdóttir

• Flying higher – disclosure and transparency of companies
• Þórdís Kolbrún R. Gylfadóttir – Minister of Tourism, Industry and Innovation

• How does climate risk affect companies' solvency? – investors demand answers
• Þorsteinn Kári Jónsson, Director of Sustainability and Community Relations at Marel, talks about Marel's journey and how investors have responded to their focus on climate issues.

• Do climate issues affect risk management?
• Kristján Rúnar Kristjánsson, Head of Risk Management at Íslandsbanki, discusses how the bank is increasingly placing emphasis on sustainability and climate risk in both lending and internal operations.



• Panel discussion – questions “from the audience”
• Þorsteinn Kári and Kristján Rúnar, along with Harpa Theodórsdóttir, an expert from the Ministry of Industry and Innovation, will be answering questions.
• Questions will be taken “from the floor” from meeting attendees, but you are also welcome to submit inquiries in advance to festa@samfelagsabyrgd.is marked “Panel – Climate Risk”

• Chair's summary

• Open meeting and all welcome
• Fer fram yfir fjarbundarbúnaðinn Zoom – hlekkur hér
• Skráðir fundargestir fá fundarhlekk sendan daginn fyrir viðburðinn
• 14.apríl, 9:00 – 10:00

Further information related to the meeting – links:

• Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (fsb-tcfd.org)

• Ambitious corporate climate action – Science Based Targets

• Publications | Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (fsb-tcfd.org)

• Umfjöllun um vegferð Marels: Marel has also committed to integrating the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) into Marel’s 2021 climate-risk reporting.



• Íslandsbanki became the first Icelandic supporter of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). The bank's risk report (Pillar 3) for 2020 will include a dedicated section on sustainability and climate risk for the first time, following the international TCFD guidelines.

• Proposal for a relevant and dynamic EU sustainability reporting – report from the European Reporting Lab (EFRAG) on the EU's proposal for sustainability standards

• Væntanlegar lagabreytingar á sviði fjármálamarkaðarins varðandi sjálfbærni þar sem innleiddar verða tvær reglugerðir ESB: reglurgerðir Evrópuþingsins og ráðsins (ESB) (2019/2088)

• Reglugerð (ESB) 2019/2088 er mælir fyrir um samræmdar reglur fyrir aðila á fjármálamarkaði og fjármálaráðgjafa um gagnsæi að því er varðar samþættingu áhættu tengda sjálfbærni.

• Reglugerð (ESB) 2020/852 kveður á um samræmdan ramma sem stuðlar að sjálfbærum fjárfestingum. Með reglugerðinni er komið á fót flokkunarkerfi með skilgreiningum á því hvað teljist sjálfbær atvinnustarfsemi.