Crédit Agricole CIB Americas hosts three climate-focused events in September

On September 14, Gary Herzog, Head of Loan Syndications and Acquisitions Finance for the Americas, and Fanny Charrier, VP, Loan Syndications Origination and Sustainability Coordinator, hosted the “ESG Lending: Is the Momentum “Sustainable”?” panel, alongside speakers from Micron Technology, Neuberger Berman, and PGIM Fixed Income, as part of the “Refinitiv LPC Middle Market, Direct Lending & Large Corporate Loans” virtual conference.

The discussion explored current trending topics in the ESG Lending space. Speakers provided insight regarding key considerations for investors and issuers, drivers of growth for sustainable financial instruments and specific trigger events that helped accelerate the talk about sustainability.
 

“The opportunity to moderate such an important topic in this prestigious event reinforces our leadership in sustainable finance. Our panel showed the increasing importance of the topic to both issuers and investors across the credit spectrum. We expect this topic to have major importance for years to come."

Gary Herzog, Head of Loan Syndications and Acquisitions Finance for the Americas

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On September 23, during the 2021 Climate Week NYC Virtual Conference (organized by Climate Group), we hosted the second annual “The Case and Opportunity for Scaling Hydrogen Adoption” webinar, and the third annual “The US Offshore Wind Finance Forum” webinar. Both webinars featured speakers from 174 Power Global, Cummins, Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind LLC, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners and Siemens Gamesa.

The webinars helped to educate the financial community, banks and investors on the ambitions, challenges and financing needs of the contribution of H2 in the low-carbon energy transition, as well as the upcoming impressive investment opportunities of the US Offshore Wind market.
 

“Energy transition is a strategic priority for all and a strength of our bank. In the US, international players have been at the forefront of renewable investments, and in new technologies, such as Offshore Wind and now Hydrogen. It has been a key initiative for us to organize these webinars during NY Climate week with our speakers from US subsidiaries of our international clients such as CIP, Iberdola, EDF, Siemens Gamesa, Hanwha or AirLiquid."

Ghislain Descamps, Head of MNC Coverage for the United States

Watch the replay for the "Case and Opportunity for Scaling Hydrogen Adoption” webinar here and the replay for the “US Offshore Wind Finance Forum” webinar here Will open in a new tab .

On September 30, we hosted a Climate Fresk virtual workshop, where employees participated in virtual interactive activities that aimed to raise awareness and understanding about climate change.

Participants of the workshop discussed the consequences, challenges and changesthat they see are in our future, or should be coming, in regards to the current climate of our Earth.