Designing a financial system that responds to the climate threat and promotes a healthy planet

Margaret Kuhlow, Finance Practice Leader at WWF, joins Emma McGarthy, Programme Manager of OMFIF’s Sustainable Policy Institute, to discuss how finance is a powerful tool for addressing climate change, and how financial flows can be directed to meet the Paris Agreement objectives of 1.5°C. They discuss how building a resilient recovery from Covid-19 can intertwine with making tangible progress on climate change, how biodiversity considerations and ecosystem services can be brought closer to the forefront of risk assessments and metrics of investment impact; as well as the tools, data and methods that can be used by institutions to measure climate risk.