UNFCCC Standing Committee on Finance
Call for evidence: information and data for the preparation of the fifth Biennial Assessment and Overview of Climate Finance Flows and Call for inputs: definitions of climate finance flows.
Response by David Rouch
The response focuses on the following aspect of the inquiry: The potential effectiveness of the financial sector, including through alliances such as GFANZ, in encouraging the decarbonisation of the economy in time to limit global temperature rises to 1.5°C.
With keynote from Emmanuel Faber, Chair, International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB)
Plenary - Leading with purpose: asset owner expectations for the next 10 years
New climate commitments, greater reporting expectations and tighter manager monitoring are changing the relationship between asset owners and asset managers.
David discusses key themes in The Social Licence for Financial Markets.
In order to reorient financial markets towards social goods we need to change perceptions of finance. David Rouch tells Daybreak Europe's Roger Hearing and Caroline Hepker that regulation has a place, but so too does a recognition of finance's social purpose.
