1. What do investors need? Penny Shepherd MBE Chief Executive UKSIF – the sustainable investment and finance association Climate Parliament Forum: The Multiplier Effect 26-27 May 2011

2. UKSIF: 1991-2011 Supporting the UK finance sector to Advance sustainability through financial services supporting leadership, growing markets

3. Finance Sector Sustainability Initiatives Sustainable Investment and Finance Associations (SIF, SIO, UKSIF, ASRIA, RIAA, Eurosif, AfricaSIF & more) Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) UNEP Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) and its sister organisations Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) Equator Principles (for Project Finance)

4. Financing the Low Carbon Transition

5. What do we mean by “investors”?

6. Making it work

7. Bonds have replaced Equities as the preferred asset class for SRI investors. ‘Other’ is a growth area that encompasses private equity, commodities, real estate Source: Eurosif European SRI: Asset Class Diversification

8. Managing an Investment Mandate

9. Managing Risk

10. UK Green Investment Bank What do investors need?

11. “The GIB, the first national development bank in the world to be dedicated to the low carbon economy, might just be the turning point in the UK when we leave the dirty old economy behind and start really building the stable, sustainable green economy. That means new jobs, cleaner air, less severe impacts from global warming and more. When we look back, it may truly have started here.” The Guardian, 23 May 2011 UK Green Investment Bank This week’s announcements

12. Thank You www.uksif.org penny.shepherd@uksif.org