WBW: SMI Forum

Environmental Social Governance (ESG) ... Distraction or Revolution?

The "SMI Online Forum on Nov 5th 2024" is an international online event planned for the first time by the Chair of Economics and Business Management (WBW) in cooperation with EURECA-PRO, in which current topics on the "Green Transformation" of European industrial companies are discussed. In line with the SMI discussion platform, topics from international speakers from science and industry will be presented and discussed with participants in this new online format.

This online forum aims at various stakeholder groups such as leading researchers, managers, employees, experts and PhD students from the fields of corporate energy and sustainability management, sustainable finance and all sectors involved in the "Sustainable Transformation" of industrial companies.

Key Topics

ESG ecosystem: concepts, assessment metrics, portfolio optimisation, trigger points
Strategic development strategies: UN sustainable development goals (SDG), Paris objectives, climate neutrality, "net zero"
"Green materials" and raw materials management: critical raw materials, conflict minerals, circular economy
EU regulatory focus: EU taxonomy, CSRD, CSDDD, SFDR
Financial valuation metrics in sustainability reporting (double materiality)
Approaches and models of operational value creation
Capital markets, credit markets and venture capital markets as drivers of the operational energy transition

Program

12.15
Opening and Welcome
Wolfgang Posch, Economics and Business Management, Montan University, Leoben (AUT)
Volkmar Kircher, International Relations and European University, Montan University, Leoben (AUT)
12.20
Looking ‚under the hood‘ of an ESG Score
Claudia Lucciola, Bloomberg LP, London (UK)
12.40
ESG Risk Management from a Financial Institution‘s Perspective
Matthias Frisch, Raiffeisenbank International, Vienna (AUT)
13.00
Monetization of LCA-based Impacts
Gerald Feichtinger, Economics and Business Management, Montan University, Leoben (AUT)

13.20 Coffee Break (online)

13.30
Digital Product Passports in the Hydrogen Supply Chain: Enhancing Transparency and Sustainability through Blockchain
Volker Wannack, Blockchain Competence Center, University of Applied Sciences Mittweida (GER)
Jonathan Osswald, Faculty Applied Computer Sciences & Biosciences, University Mittweida (GER)
13.50
ESG and Mining
Angelika Haindl, Mining Engineering and Mineral Economics, Montan University, Leoben (AUT)
14.10
Integrating Sustainable Mining Practices to Achieve Europe’s Green Digital Economy and Climate Neutrality by 2050
Emmanouil Varouchakis, School of Mineral Resource Engineering, Tech. University of Crete (GRC)
14.30
Summary and Closing
Wolfgang Posch, Economics and Business Management, Montan University, Leoben (AUT)