Key challenges raised by international climate finance panel

The panel discussed financing gaps, ESGs, and blended finance

Today was the beginning of Incisive Media's Net Zero Festival, hosted by our sister publication Business Green, which will be happening over three days.

The first day of the Net Zero Festival saw a panel on the role of international finance in preventing climate change. The panel was led by Dr Rhian-Mari Thomas, chief executive of the Green Finance Institute and included Nigel Topping, the UK's high-level climate action champion, Bill Winters, group chief executive for Standard Chartered PLC, Amal-Lee Amin, director of climate change for the CDC group, and Emma Howard Boyd, chair of the Environment Agency. Topping began by noting that while it was essential that funding be established for climate change prevention, especially the $100...