

Group Sustainability Manager, London Stock Exchange Group He is member of the Italian Observatory on Energy Poverty, of the G20 Energy Sustainability Working Group, of the Network for Greening the Financial System, of the Committee for the Estimation of Natural Capital and of the Scientific Committee of “Energia”. Ivan Faiella is Senior Economist at the Bank of Italy. She is on the Advisory Board of the BCFN Foundation, the Evaluation Board of the World Economic Forum’s Sustainable Energy Innovation Fund, and a member of the One Planet Lab She is also the lead author on CPI’s Global Landscape of Climate Finance, which has set the benchmark for climate finance tracking. Instruments from the Lab have mobilized over 2 billion US dollars for sustainable development in developing countries in just five years.

The Lab’s public-private approach solicits, shapes, and tests cutting edge climate finance instruments that resolve financing barriers hindering alternative energy, adaptation, and land use projects. Named one of the 20 most influential women in climate change, Barbara advises leaders on climate, energy, and land use investments around the world.īarbara directs the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance, (the Lab) and its sister programs in Brazil and India.

Global Managing Director of Climate Policy Initiativeīarbara Buchner is Global Managing Director of Climate Policy Initiative, and Executive Director of its widely renowned Climate Finance program. Forgetting of the global climate emergency in such a crucial moment for financial investments would mean to lose the opportunity to reverse the previous pattern, locking us into long-term unsustainable investments and moving the world away from the possibility to meet the Paris Agreement’s goals. Today’s financial interventions, while addressing the short-term health and economic urgencies linked to the pandemic, must think about the chronic climate crisis to design a resilient and green recovery. The COVID-19 crisis can be seen as a wake-up call for our social and financial system to be better prepared for the long-term climate crisis. Sara Lovisolo, Group Sustainability Manager, London Stock Exchange Group Ivan Faiella, Senior Economist, Banca d’Italia Massimo Tavoni, Director, RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE) and Professor, Politecnico di Milanoīarbara Buchner, Global Managing Director and Executive Director, Climate Finance, Climate Policy Initiative
