Guernsey is hosting its first Sustainable Finance Week in June, an online event from 9-11th June bringing together leading sustainable finance experts, private wealth advisers, family office advisers and private investors from Europe, Switzerland, Hong Kong and Guernsey. The week will build on Guernsey’s global leadership across sustainable finance and private wealth and focus on financing sustainability through private wealth and the impact of the coronovaris pandemic on climate finance.
The event would have been held in Guernsey but had to move online because of travel restrictions imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Dr Andy Sloan, Chair of Guernsey Green Finance, said:
“Guernsey’s Sustainable Finance Week has a specific and perhaps unique focus – how to best leverage private wealth and capital to address the issue of climate change and the sustainability agenda.”
Among the speakers lined up are:
- Ben Caldecott, founding Director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme, and strategic adviser to the UK Green Finance Initiative’s Chief Executive;
- Richard Burrett, Chief Sustainability Officer to fund manager Earth Capital, Fellow at University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and former Chair of the UNEP Finance Initiative;
- Gurpreet Manku, Deputy Director General and Head of Policy at the British Venture Capital Association (BVCA);
- Divya Seshamani, Managing Partner of Greensphere LLP and Member of the UK Government’s Council of Sustainable Business where she leads the Net-Zero Carbon initiative;
- Ben McQuhae, Founder and Co-Chair of the Hong Kong Green Finance Task Force.
Guernsey, through Guernsey Green Finance, is a member of the United Nations’ Finance Centres for Sustainability Global Network. The world’s first green regulated fund product – the Guernsey Green Fund – was launched in 2018.
For more information, visit the event website: https://www.weareguernsey.com/finance-events/2020/sustainable-finance-week/.
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