Building a Sustainable Financial System – From Design to Delivery #ClimateFinance

Building a Sustainable Financial System – From Design to Delivery

Harnessing the US$300 trillion in the global financial system will be essential to make a successful transition to a prosperous, low-carbon economy. The UNEP Inquiry has uncovered a ‘quiet revolution’ in policy and market innovations to mobilise capital and mainstream sustainability factors in banking, capital markets, insurance and investment. This webinar will present the findings of its global report, “The Financial System We Need”, and outline opportunities in 2016, including in Italy.

Nick Robins

Nick Robins is co-director of the UNEP Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System, an international initiative to advance financial policy options that more effectively mobilise capital for an inclusive, green economy.

Nick Robins has over 20 years’ experience in the policy, research and financial dimensions of sustainable development. Before joining UNEP, he was Head of the Climate Change Centre of Excellence at HSBC in London from 2007 to 2014, where he produced investment research on issues such as clean tech growth, climate vulnerability, green stimulus and stranded assets. In the Thomson Extel awards for European investment research, Nick was ranked as #1 analyst for integrated climate change in 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2013.

Prior to HSBC, Nick was first head of SRI research and then head of SRI funds at Henderson Global Investors. At Henderson, he published the first ever carbon audit of an investment fund and co-designed the Industries of the Future fund. Nick has also worked for the International Institute of Environment and Development, the European Commission’s Environment Directorate and was part of the original Business Council for Sustainable Development working on theChanging Course book for the 1992 Earth Summit.

Isabella Alloisio

Isabella Alloisio is senior researcher at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) conducting research on climate and energy finance and the decarbonization of the energy system, and she is policy analyst and external relations manager at the International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG). She was project manager in the field of energy regulation at the Italian Authority for Energy. She holds a PhD in International Law and Economics from Bocconi University, and she was visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley and researcher at the Centre for Research on Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy (IEFE) at Bocconi University, conducting research on renewable energy economics and policy. She has published her PhD thesis on the Policy Drivers of Photovoltaic Industry Growth in California, Germany and Japan. She holds a MPhil in International Relations from the University of Geneva, and worked in International Organizations, such as the United Nations and the European Parliament.

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