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From Covid To COP26 – The Changing Role Of Financial Actors
Webinar

Webinar Recording

The last five years has seen the first steps to integrate climate issues in to the global financial system by policy makers, regulators, banks and investors. As President of global climate negotiations in 2020 the UK government was planning to push for deeper and faster financial reforms this year. With the Glasgow Summit now postponed to 2021, and the global economy experiencing its largest ever disruption, will climate reforms be delayed or is it even more important to ensure the transition to a more sustainable financial system?

Speaker: Nick Mabey is Chief Executive and a founder director of E3G (Third Generation Environmentalism) a non-profit European organisation dedicated to accelerating the transition to sustainable development.

In addition to his management role, Nick works on European climate and energy policy, climate diplomacy and foreign policy, and the security implications of climate change and resource scarcity.

Nick was previously a senior advisor in the UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit leading work on energy, climate change, countries at risk of instability, organised crime and fisheries. Nick also worked in the UK Foreign Office’s Environment Policy Department where he helped establish the UK’s world leading environmental diplomacy network.

Before he joined the UK government, Nick was Head of Economics and Development at WWF-UK. He came to WWF from academic research at London Business School on the economics of climate change; published as the book “Argument in the Greenhouse”. This followed a period in the UK electricity industry working for PowerGen and GEC-Alsthom. Nick trained as a mechanical engineer at Bristol University and holds a Masters degree in Technology and Policy from MIT.

Nick has held a range of external appointments and is currently serving on the London Sustainable Development Commission and as a trustee of the Ashden Awards. Nick has previously served on the advisory board of Infrastructure UK, the independent UK Green Investment Bank Commission and as the vice-chair of the European Alliance to Save Energy.

Date
Tuesday, 12 May 2020

Time
14:00 - 14:45 BST

Cost
Free