Sustainable Finance

Transitioning to a climate-safe world requires mobilisation of massive financial resources by the public and private sectors into future-fit industries and infrastructure, and into climate resilience.

Sustainable Finance

 

 

We have very little time to radically re-engineer the financial system so that its rules, institutions and governance are fit for purpose and work for, rather than against, the future that we need to build.

Politics affects financial decisions, and finance influences politics. We work to influence key political decisions which can have cascading effects through the financial system.

Our finance work addresses European, national and international issues around the world where there is an opportunity for wider leverage through the system.

Our vision is that the financial system enables a smooth global transition to climate safety, and that financial actors use their full political voice.

Track record

  1. We are thought leaders on climate-safe reform of international financial institutions, including national and multilateral development banks.
  2. We played a key role in the development of European sustainable finance reforms.
  3. We have supported the development of strong national approaches to climate finance, including green banks, in countries around the world.

Focus areas

International Financial Institutions

International public financial institutions have a unique and vital role in the global transition to climate safety.

Our work focuses on the politics and governance of these institutions, and in assessing their progress in aligning with the Paris Agreement.

Danny Scull

Senior Policy Advisor

Dominique Schmutzer

Junior Researcher

Erin Landy

Policy Advisor

Federico Guirado Wilson

Junior Researcher

Jonathan Walters

Senior Associate

Kate Levick

Associate Director - Sustainable Finance

Laura Sabogal Reyes

Senior Policy Advisor

Viktor Ahlgren

Researcher

Strategies and Policies

The global financial system is currently biased towards short-term goals at the expense of long-term opportunities and risks.

Policy change can accelerate the transition to a sustainable global economy and align the system to people’s values. Our work develops and encourages high impact reforms in Europe as well as in national and international jurisdictions.

Ben Gilbey

Senior Researcher

David Nemecek

Senior Associate

Ed Matthew

Campaigns Director

Elizabeth Jacobs

Senior Specialist

George Triggs

Senior Associate

Heather McKay

Senior Policy Advisor

Jurei Yada

Programme Lead

Kate Levick

Associate Director - Sustainable Finance

Kate Ryan

Senior Policy Advisor

Marcela Jaramillo

Senior Associate

Nina Pimblett

Sector Guidance Lead (Transition Plan Taskforce)

Pietro Cesaro

Policy Advisor

Sima Kammourieh

Programme Lead

Tsvetelina Kuzmanova

Senior Policy Advisor

System Reform

We focus on the national and international governance of climate-related financial risk, and the integration of climate change into macroeconomic thinking. This includes looking at the role of finance ministries and central banks, and at the relationship between finance and climate policy.

Dileimy Orozco

Senior Policy Advisor

Franklin Steves

Senior Policy Advisor - Interim Head of the Better Recovery Unit

Kate Levick

Associate Director - Sustainable Finance

Sima Kammourieh

Programme Lead

Sony Kapoor

Senior Associate

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