Pushing Forward: Uniting Civil Society to Advance Sustainable Finance

European Responsible Investment Network Conference 2025

The 2025 European Responsible Investment Network (ERIN) Civil Society Conference 2025 will bring together civil society organizations working to advance sustainable finance to discuss the urgency of coming together to tackle growing challenges in an evolving European political and regulatory landscape. At this year's event, "Pushing forward: Uniting civil society to advance sustainable finance," participants will discuss issues such as defending key regulatory wins, aligning financial flows with transition goals, and enhancing civil society participation in decision-making.

InfluenceMap's Tazu Walden, Climate Finance Analyst, and Tom Alcoran, Senior Analyst for FinanceMap, will present on "Bridging gaps between data users and producers" at the conference.

The conference will cover the following topics:

  • Advocating to safeguard recent progress in the context of the new EU legislative mandate;
  • Aligning financial flows with transition plans and the need to protect nature;
  • Strengthening shareholder rights in Europe; and
  • Developing shared civil society narratives fit for 2025.

Agenda

  • Developing winning narratives for sustainable finance in 2025
  • Transition plans and EU Legislation
  • Biodiversity and finance opportunities in 2025
  • Legislation impacting shareholder rights
  • Stemming the tide of deregulation at the EU level
  • Financial data for CSOs: Where to find it and how to use it?
  • Bridging gaps between data users and producers
  • Bringing in affected community voices to finance campaigning
  • AGM activism and coordination for European campaigners

Event Details

March 18–19, 2025

9:00AM - 4:00PM CET

Brussels, Belgium

Speakers

Speaker

InfluenceMap

Tazu Walden

Analyst, Climate Finance

Tazu joined InfluenceMap as an Analyst in the sustainable finance team in November 2023. She primarily works on tracking the policy engagement of European and UK banks, financial institutions, and industry associations. Before joining InfluenceMap, Tazu worked at the UN Global Compact Network UK, assisting companies with their sustainability reporting. Tazu holds a BA in Politics and an MPhil in Economic and Social History from the University of Cambridge, where she researched corporate pollution and protest in post-war Japan.

Speaker

InfluenceMap

Tom Alcoran

Senior Analyst, FinanceMap

As a Senior Analyst on FinanceMap, Tom works on the assessment of the financial portfolios, covering both asset management and banking. He also contributes to FinanceMap’s stewardship assessment by analyzing asset manager proxy voting. Prior to joining InfluenceMap in 2021, Tom completed an MSc in Theoretical Physics at the King’s College London.