Greening the Financial System: Exploring the Ways Forward

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, Sustainability News, Trendspotting, Beyond GDP

Last month on the margins of the World Bank/IMF Annual meetings, Bloomberg Philanthropies, the European Banking Federation (EBF), the Institute of International Finance (IIF), the Paulson Institute, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) and UN Environment convened a roundtable discussion entitled “Greening the Financial System: Exploring the Ways Forward”.

The goal of this convening, the fourth in the series, was to examine lessons from developing and implementing green finance initiatives over the last few years and to highlight successful examples and opportunities, particularly from China and of green digital finance.

As highlighted in previous Greening the Financial System events, green finance offers vast opportunities to meet the ambitious objectives outlined in the Paris Climate agreement and in the SDGs, which need private capital for long-term, profitable global infrastructure investments in both developed and developing countries.

To further delve into the meeting please read our briefing here, we hope it will provide food for thought this thanksgiving, and in case you are wondering, yes we think the briefing is suitable dinner table conversation.