CPC2020: Market-led solutions to climate change: decarbonisation through private finance - a podcast by Conservative Environment Network

Panellists: Dr Ben Caldecott (Chair, CEN Board & founding Director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme), Guy Opperman MP (Minister for Pensions and Financial Inclusion), Gareth Davies MP (CEN); Rhian-Mari Thomas (CEO, Green Finance Institute), Will Martindale (Director of Policy and Research, PRI)

Private finance has a vital role to play in delivering net zero, levelling up the regions of the UK through the construction of new clean and resilient infrastructure, and delivering a green economic recovery from Covid.

Particularly important in the lead up to COP26, this discussion will explore the need for greater transparency around climate-related risks, including the potential to make the voluntary TCFD reporting framework mandatory, for further measures to align capital flows with desirable outcomes, and for financial institutions to establish credible net zero targets and plans. It would also explore the need to support green finance with ‘real economy’ policy change, and the potential consequences of the “inevitable policy response” to climate change.

There is also scope to explore some of the government’s achievements on green finance, the role of a potential new government-backed infrastructure bank, “GIB 2.0”, in building back better, and how we can promote the UK as a green finance hub of expertise at COP26.

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