• Is there a need for ESG ratings to be effectively defined and standardized to provide a clear understanding of environmental, social, and governance factors?
• What measures can be implemented to improve transparency regarding the operations and methodologies employed by ESG rating providers?
• What steps can be taken to improve the comparability of ESG ratings across different providers?
• How can potential conflicts of interest of ESG rating providers be effectively identified and mitigated?
• Should ESG rating providers be authorized and supervised by ESMA?
• What strategies can be implemented to limit the risks of greenwashing and social washing in ESG ratings?
• What types of oversight mechanisms can be introduced to ensure the proper functioning and accountability of ESG rating providers?
• How can we ensure that rating methodologies are rigorous, systematic, objective and subject to validation?
• How can transparency be improved regarding the impact of ESG risks on individual credit ratings?
• How can we ensure that the rules are proportionate for smaller ESG rating providers?
14:00-14:30 Registration and networking
14:30-14:35 Introductory remarks by the moderator
14:35-15:10 Introductory remarks by speakers
15:05-16:10 Panel discussion and Q&A
16.10-17.00 Networking
Professor of Accounting, Head of the Accounting Group, University of Bristol Business School
Giovanna Michelon has been at the University of Bristol since June 2019 and has been Head of the Accounting group since September 2020. She obtained her PhD from the University of Padova. Her research interests are in the field of sustainability accounting and reporting, and her published work has focused on the governance process and systems that underpin corporate actions and accountability on sustainability issues, as well as on the role that sustainability information plays in capital markets. Giovanna has more than 40 publications in leading academic journals such as, among others, Science, Accounting, Organizations and Society, European Accounting Review, Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal, and the Journal of Business Ethics. Highly engaged with both the academic community and practitioners, she is currently Editor of Accounting Forum, where she advocates and promotes the diversity of interests and epistemologies in accounting research and also serves on the editorial board of several Journals. She is Chair of the EAA Virtual Activities Committee, and a member of the EAA Management Committee and EAA Publications Committee. She is also a Council member of the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (University of St. Andrews) and Chair of the ACCA Global Forum for Governance, Risk and Performance where she helps setting the research agenda of this professional body in the fields of corporate governance and risk management.
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