Climate & Covid-19

In rebuilding the global economy, we cannot afford to ignore the looming clouds of the climate crisis – has Covid 19 given governments and businesses valuable breathing space to reassess their economic models? Are big oil’s fortunes in terminal decline? What tools will we require to build a sustainable low carbon future? And how will all of this play out in COP26? Speaker: Sean Kidney is CEO of the Climate Bonds Initiative, an international NGO working to mobilize debt capital markets for climate solutions. Projects include a green bond definitions and certification scheme with $34 trillion of assets represented on its Board and some 200 organizations involved in its development and governance; working with the Chinese central bank on how to grow green bonds in China; an international Green Infrastructure Investment Coalition; and market development programs in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Nigeria and East Africa. He was member of the 2017 EU High Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance and is a member of its successor, the EU Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance; he is also a member of green finance advisory groups in China, India, Mexico and Khazakhstan. He has previously been a consultant on green bonds to the United Nations Secretary General, a member of the Peoples Bank of China Green Finance Task Force and a member of the Commonwealth Secretariat’s Expert Committee on Climate Finance. In both 2017 and 2018 he was voted GlobalCapital magazine’s “Most Influential Champion” of the sustainable finance market. Interested in watching our webinars live, or taking part in the production of our research? Join our community at: https://bit.ly/3sXPpb5