On the 4th of October 2024, Sustainable Finance Lab held a Symposium challenging the speed of the transition in the financial sector. The event featured high-profile speakers such as Frank Elderson (ECB), Joanne Kellerman (Single Resolution Board), Karen Maas (Open Universiteit & SFL), and Alexander Barkawi (Council on Economic Policies). More than 250 representatives from financial institutions, government and NGOs attended this event, marking both a great send-off of its former Director Rens van Tilburg and a new chapter for Sustainable Finance Lab under the leadership of Brenda Kramer.
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Thomas Veenstra
Scenario choice matters in prudential transition plans
Many roads lead to Rome but beware to take the right pathway to Paris
While many banks now publish transition plans, large differences exist in terms of scope, target-setting methods and the measurement of misalignment with climate goals. This creates a need for standardisation and clarification on what a good transition plan entails.
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Gerdie Knijp
Webinar Finding a way with nature: urgent action required by central banks
Nature is deteriorating faster than ever. Central banks and supervisors have an important role to play in addressing an urgent crisis and a threat to global stability.
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Gerdie Knijp
The green peace coin: how green currencies can help address the polycrisis
By Aleksandar Simic, Rens van Tilburg and Frank van Gansbeke.
What do the wildfires in Texas and Canada, floods in Kenya and Brazil, debt crises in emerging economies and growing global unease with the dominant position of the US dollar have in common? It might just be their solution through monetary policy innovation. More specifically, a new reserve currency, backed by the global commons, could provide a way out of the present polycrisis of climate change-, biodiversity loss, and shifting geopolitical and financial tectonic plates.
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Aleksandar Simić
Coral reefs teeming with life as a model for cooperation, field building and impact
Sustainable Finance Lab and the Erasmus Platform for Sustainable Value Creation invited John Fullerton, former Wall Street banker turned thought leader on regenerative economics, to meet a select group of Dutch academics and investment professionals. Fullerton applies systems science to economic thinking and has distilled his ideas of how to redesign our economy as a living system into 8 principles.
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On January 18th, the European Banking Authority (EBA) launched a public consultation on draft Guidelines on the management of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) risk. The Guidelines outline requirements for the identification, measurement, management, and monitoring of ESG risks by institutions and prudential transition plans to address the risks arising from the transition to a climate-neutral economy. Sustainable Finance Lab drafted a response to this consultation.
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