AFME's European Sustainable Finance Conference
Enabling capital markets to finance the transition
Join 250+ of Europe's major banks and capital markets firms shaping their sustainability products and practices
The most influential sustainable finance policy setters and market leaders spoke in 2026:
Energy security and energy transition
Europe's energy transition is taking place against a rapidly shifting geopolitical backdrop.
Energy security, competitiveness, decarbonisation and resilience are increasingly interconnected, and capital markets have a crucial role to play in financing the significant investment needed.
Now in its sixth year, AFME's two-day programme explores how banks are working with clients and policymakers to meet investment needs and how policy and innovative financing structures can enable finance to flow. The agenda is arranged around three core themes:
• Delivering the energy transition and decarbonisation
• Financing adaptation and resilience
• Regulation, data and risk
New sessions for 2027 include
- Financing Europe’s power system: grids, generation and rising demand
- Industrial decarbonisation and clean tech: creating bankable transition opportunities
- Carbon markets and industrial decarbonisation: can carbon pricing mobilise investment?
- Making resilience financeable
- A Chief Sustainability Officers' panel
- Exploring the future for sustainable finance regulation
Meet the attendees
Join 250+ senior participants from across the sustainable finance ecosystem who are working to advance decarbonisation, adaptation and resilience, scale sustainable finance for the climate transition, and implement Europe’s evolving sustainable finance framework.
Hear from policymakers, AFME member banks and other industry leaders on financing solutions and corporate responsibility goals. Connect with banks, investors, corporates, regulators, legal and advisory firms, credit rating agencies, data and service providers, and industry associations to exchange practical insights and build valuable connections.
The policy-setters shaping European regulation
In 2026 speakers included Heads of Sustainable Finance and other senior representatives from the European Commission, FCA, IFRS Foundation, ESMA, EIB, ECB and more...
Attend to connect and learn from from the regulators, central banks and standard setters who are driving capital to sustainable projects. Use their insights to position yourself for maximum impact and return.
View 2026 attendees.
Complimentary attendance for funds, regulators & issuers
Register for one of our limited free places now if you're an asset owner, asset manager, regulator or corporate issuer
Comprehensive coverage of the policies that shape sustainable capital flows
Financing the transition
Rising energy demand
Bankable transition opportunities
Carbon markets
Financing nature-positive resilience
Climate resilience as economic imperative
Making resilience financeable
Scaling resilience
From ambition to investment
Climate risk supervisory priorities
Risk in a rapidly warming world
Corporate perspectives
Chief Sustainability Officer panel
The future of SFDR 2.0
Sustainability reporting
Sustainable finance regulation future
Complimentary attendance for funds, regulators & issuers
We want to make sure that the banking community are meeting the right people.
By weighting the audience towards clients and regulators, we can better guarantee you’ll establish meaningful connections.
If you are an asset manager, asset owner, regulator or corporate issuer, register for one of our limited complimentary delegate passes.
IFRS Sustainability Alliance: Roundtable
Conference delegates can register to attend this cross-functional roundtable.
Meet peers from non-financial reporting, stewardship, finance and risk management.
Meet with analysts, portfolio managers and investment specialists to help shape sector-specific sustainability disclosure guidelines.
Connect with the sustainability reporting leads shaping sustainability disclosures and data availability.
Take a look at a previous event...
Get a better idea of what to expect
Previous attendees said:
"A great event that gave insightful updates from key decision makers and regulators on the direction and intentions of upcoming trends and directives... Went deeper into covering technical aspects of topics by brilliant specialists in their niche fields"
Global Lead for ESG Data, Nikko Asset Management
"A good mix of regulatory participants and market players. Key challenges for the market as a whole were addressed... Topics and content were relevant and speakers/panel members knowledgeable. A good interaction throughout the two days"
Global Head Sustainable Finance, ING Bank
“Excellent balance between industry insights, investment debate and regulatory presence”
Head of Impact Strategy / Equity Impact Lead, M&G
“Created real value through the exchange with peers and clients. The strong mix of perspectives and the opportunity for meaningful discussions across the community made it a truly impactful event”
Head of ESG Advisory & Sustainable Methodology, DWS
Partnership & exhibitor opportunities:
Demonstrate your expertise, showcase your ESG products and solutions, align yourself with the key banks and investors, build on relationships and increase your visibility within the sustainable finance sector at the 5th annual edition of this conference.
Publicly position yourself within the sector, start conversations and generate leads.
To learn more about all the opportunities available, please email mike.jeapes@informa.com.
Sustainable finance in Europe
AFME’s focus is on supporting members through the transition to a sustainable economy. We promote the mobilisation of capital in support of sustainable objectives, with an emphasis on the pivotal role of banks and capital markets.
We are highly engaged on the development of the policy and regulatory framework for sustainable finance in the EU and UK, and at the global level through the Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA).
AFME works with members, policy makers, and other stakeholders across a range of areas, including sustainability disclosures, taxonomies, sustainability-related financing products, sustainability due diligence, transition finance and transition plans, ESG risk management, and carbon markets.
