NGFS Finance Day Event

This event, organised by the central banks and financial supervisors' Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), will provide an overview of the state of and perspectives for the greening of the financial system. The focus will be on solutions to enable action within the financial system and beyond for the transition to a net-zero and nature-positive economy.

The discussions will bring together key actors and decision makers from the green finance community, including central banks, supervisors, standard setters, multilateral development banks, private sector firms and investors, with voices from research institutions and NGOs. The work of the Network for Greening the Financial System’s will provide a starting point for discussion of the main trends and developments in the climate finance space.

Agenda

15:30h-15:45h Opening remarks
Speaker: Sabine Mauderer, Deutsche Bundesbank, First Deputy Governor and Chair of the NGFS

15:45h-16:00h Keynote: A financial system that can manage the transition
Speaker: Bo Li, IMF, Deputy Managing Director

16:00h-16:30h Roundtable: Fostering an enabling ecosystem: how can financial regulation and supervision pave the way for a green financial system?
Speakers:
• Aaron Vermeulen, WWF, Global Practice Lead Finance
• Mardi McBrien, IFRS Foundation, Chief of Strategic Affairs & Capacity Building
• Irene Heemskerk, European Central Bank, Head of the Climate Change Centre
• Mathilde Mesnard, OECD, Deputy Director and Co-ordinator for Climate and Green Finance
Moderator: Katie Gallus

16:30h-17:15h Roundtable: Reaching for net zero: how the NGFS Scenarios can inform climate finance
Speakers:
• Ottmar Edenhofer, PIK, Director and Chief Economist
• Leah Ramoutar, Aviva, Director for environmental sustainability
• James Close, NatWest Group, Head of Climate Change
Moderator: Livio Stracca

17:15h-17:30h Talk and launch of NGFS flagship data directory
Speaker: Harry Lee, Monetary Authority of Singapore, Deputy Director and Head, Data Governance & Transformation Division

17:30h-17:45h Break

17:45h-18:30h High level Roundtable: Mobilising trillions for climate finance: Did the financial system change?
Speakers:
• Sabine Mauderer, NGFS, Chair
• Achim Steiner, UNDP, Administrator
• Avinash Persaud, Inter-American Development Bank, Special Advisor on Climate Change to the President
• Ulrik Stridbæk, Orsted, Vice-President
• Ambroise Fayolle, European Investment Bank, Vice President
Moderator: Katie Gallus

Read more about the NGFS on its website: https://www.ngfs.net/en