Future Sustainable Finance Leaders

🎉 Happy 1-Year Anniversary to Future Sustainable Finance Leaders! 🎉 This week, we celebrated our 1-year anniversary with an insightful event hosted by HSBC CI. A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has consistently supported us by attending our events, contributing to thought-provoking discussions, speaking, and helping with organisation. At the event, we explored key topics around achieving net zero as a firm, financed emissions, supply chain emissions, incentives, challenges, and innovative ideas to overcome them. Huge thanks to HSBC for hosting such a fantastic session! ✨ Special Mentions ✨ To our founders who started this group in November 2023: Tom McKenna, Alexandra Faure, Evan Laframboise, Amy King, Simon Finch - Chartered MCSI, Joshua Sherrard-Bewhay and Ellen Hibbs. To those who have stepped in to help organise events throughout the year: Sam Wilkes, Lydia Stephens, and Anna-Marie Egre. To our speakers and host organisations over the past year: Digital Jersey, JTC Group, Aztec Group, Standard Bank Group, HSBC, Prosperity 24/7, and Investec. 💡 Looking Ahead: If you’d like to join us for the upcoming year, we’d love to have you! Our first event of 2025 will be in January. We’re always on the lookout for speakers and host organisations, so please reach out if this could be you or your firm. Here’s to another year of collaboration, innovation, and driving sustainable finance forward! 🌱 #SustainableFinance #FutureLeaders #NetZero #Collaboration #Impact #esg #sustainability #futureleaders #sustainablefinanceleaders #partnerhships

We’re so excited to celebrate the 1-year anniversary of the FSFL group with you tomorrow! 🎉 Hosted by David Carpenter and the HSBC team at their King Street branch in St Helier, this promises to be an evening of insightful discussions, engaging activities, and great networking opportunities.  Here’s what to expect:   - Thought-provoking keynotes on achieving operational and financed net-zero goals.   - Interactive activities led by HSBC to inspire collaboration and new ideas.   - A chance to network and unwind with drinks, generously sponsored by HSBC.  If you haven’t RSVP’d yet, please do so we can finalise numbers.  We can’t wait to see you there for an evening of learning, connecting, and celebrating! 🎉  #FutureSustainableFinanceLeaders #Sustainability #NetZero #Collaboration #SustainableFinance #Impact Amy King Simon Finch - Chartered MCSI Sam Wilkes Evan Laframboise Alexandra Faure Lydia Stephens Tom McKenna Anna-Marie Egre

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Thank you to all those that wrote to States Assembly – Jersey's elected parliament members challenging them to vote in favour of the Amendments to the Marine Spatial Plan. Frustratingly, the Government’s proposal, which was significantly worse for our local waters and their long term survival was voted through today. Jonathan Renouf the former Minister for Environment, has agreed that we can share his response to the votes below: [Many of you] wrote to States members regarding the Marine Spatial Plan (MSP) urging support for greater marine protection. I agree entirely. You may know that I commissioned the MSP and fully supported the draft plan which included 27% of the island's waters to be put into marine protected areas (MPA's). Unfortunately, the minister chose to remove some of the most important areas - including 50% of the maerl areas - from the marine protected areas. I supported the first amendment to the MSP that would have reintroduced the areas the minister had removed. I spoke in the debate along with many others; we tried our best, but I regret to say that the government view prevailed. It was particularly disappointing that members didn't support protecting maerl, and didn't even support protecting the most important area for the scallop divers, who fish entirely sustainably, and who we should be supporting. I'm sorry that my efforts and those of others who worked very hard to get a better result did not work. But I thank you for writing. Your voice was heard, I referenced the letters that people wrote in my speech, and it gave members considerable pause for thought to know that there was such strong support for greater marine protection. The fight goes on... All best JONATHAN RENOUF Deputy for St Brelade.” Further to that, Deputy Renouf reminds us of what the current Chief Minister Lyndon Farnham said in 2021 “I am completely against a continuation of heavy duty trawling & dredging. That has to be stopped. It is pure vandalism of our seabed." So Chief Minister, we challenge you to answer what has changed your mind in those few years? Why have you voted against stopping dredging in even the most sensitive, threatened habitats. “Man of principle.” #sustainability #biodiversity #saveourshores

🐠 ACTION NEEDED! 💪 The States Assembly – Jersey's elected parliament is due to vote upon the Marine Spatial Plan 🐟 Tuesday 22 October - the National Trust for Jersey 🌳 is asking for you to contact the States Members here https://lnkd.in/ekSdZX4C 🗳️ to voice your support for how much of our precious Maerl we should be protecting for future generations 👶 Our Maerl is one of the most biodiverse marine habitats in the world, providing shelter, nursery grounds, breeding grounds, and feeding areas for a large number of marine species. In Jersey specifically, you can find up to 173 different species within just one square metre of Maerl, including juvenile populations that are critical for our fishing industry such as scallops 🦀 and 🦞 Like the more familiar corals, Maerl grows at a pace of just 0.5mm per year, so it can take decades and even centuries for a Maerl bed to fully establish. Some can reach 1000 years old, like in Jersey, or up to 5000 years old, like off the coast in Brittany. Aside from biodiversity, Maerl beds play an important role in stabilising our seabed and in regulating our climate, by drawing down carbon and locking it away for hundreds, and even thousands of years. Jersey has a rare and important opportunity to protect its precious Maerl. On Tuesday 22 October, States Members will be voting on the extent of Maerl that will be protected in the Marine Spatial Plan. This includes voting on an amendment to the proposed document, that would ensure that 88% of the Islands Maerl will be protected, rather than the 33% currently proposed. Without your input, we may lose our wonderful Maerl and all the rich biodiversity it supports to the cost of future generations. A quick email can make a huge difference. Thank your 🙏 FSFL founders. #sustainability #strongertogether #ecoactive #biodiversity #savesourshores Jersey Association of Sustainability Practitioners (JASP) Jersey Heritage National Trust for Jersey National Trust Lewis Pugh

Thank you to everyone who contributed and attended our event last night, particularly Standard Bank Group for hosting! It was great to welcome a few new faces too! Anna-Marie Egre and Charlie Petulla spoke candidly and with pride about Standard Bank’s recent impact assessment, and then Liall Medina from Etcho presented on the power of advisors. As I mentioned last night, our next event on 19 November will be a celebration of the first anniversary of our group. On the back of feedback received, we will be shaking up the format for this event and using it as an evening for us all to communicate challenges with a view to influencing matters relating to Sustainable Finance in Jersey. More details to follow soon, but in the meantime, get thinking about any challenges you, your colleagues or businesses are experiencing. Abigail Syvret and Michelle Moffat also asked for our members help. It would be great if some of you could volunteer and represent our group and of course your place of work. The detail of their request is as follows: 'As part of the work to deliver policy OE6 of the Carbon Neutral Roadmap, the Climate Change Engagement team is hoping to offer a series of Lunch and Learn session during the week commencing 21 October to cover a range of topics addressing financial literacy and sustainable finance. The sessions would be targeted at under 30s, including College students, and would provide a short introductory talk followed by questions and networking. The sessions would cover:   ·        day to day finance and budgeting (e.g. current accounts, money management etc.) ·        savings and investments (everything from saving for Christmas to saving a mortgage deposit) ·        borrowing (e.g. overdrafts / credit cards, loans and mortgages) ·        crypto currencies ·        selecting sustainable financial products and services   If you, or a colleague would be interested in delivering one of these short talks or would just like to find out more, please contact Abbie Syvret, Climate Change Engagement Officer: a.svvret2@gov.je' Looking forward to seeing you all on the 19 November!!!

We’re looking forward to seeing many of you next week! Our event on September 18th is just around the corner, and it’s set to be an exciting and insightful evening. We’ll be joined by Standard Bank Group, who will share the results of their recent Impact assessment—one of the first in Jersey’s financial sector. They’ll discuss the outcomes, recommendations, and their journey towards greater sustainability. Following this, Etcho will delve into the power of advisors and effective strategies for engaging clients in meaningful Impact discussions. We encourage you to invite your colleagues and friends who share our passion for sustainable finance. Let’s make this a great opportunity for learning and networking! Can’t wait to see you all there! #SustainableFinance #ImpactAssessment #Networking #FutureFinanceLeaders Tom McKenna Lydia Stephens Amy King Simon Finch - Chartered MCSI

We are excited by the inaugural Sustainable Business Conference due to take place on Tuesday 15 October in Guernsey and on Wednesday 16 October in Jersey. A great line up of speakers and topics, with a vision to bring together leaders from a diverse range of organisations across the Channel Islands to drive innovation and to discuss best practices in sustainable business. Mourant TPA Investec Hand Picked Hotels TISE - The International Stock Exchange

Some fantastic presentations and thought-provoking discussions at our latest event this week focussing on the trust industry and sustainability. Thank you to Prosperity 24/7 and Chris Clark for hosting us in The Space, to Elizabeth Shaw and James Painter for their insights, to Harry Sutton and Douglas Robertson for stepping up to host the World Cafe forum. If you’d like to find out more about FSFL, joining or the issues we discussed please get in touch with founders Alexandra, Lydia, Simon, Tom, Amy or Sam. #sustainability #FSFL