Bankers for Net Zero

Fostering Green Finance for Portugal's SMEs - OECD Workshop
2024-02-27 | Lisbon, Portugal
Heather will be participating in the OECD workshop on “Fostering Green Finance for Portugal’s SMEs’ on 27 February, in Lisbon, as part of an EU funded project. Experts will speak at the workshop on how to support SME greening and green entrepreneurship policies in Portugal before a roundtable with financial institutions.

The event is invite only, but we will share updates through our social media channels.
Linked In – https://www.linkedin.com/company/bankers-for-netzero/
Twitter – https://twitter.com/Bankers4NetZero

EcoEmpower: Women Shaping the Energy, Climate and Sustainability Future
2024-02-22 18:30 - 20:30 (Europe/London) | Imperial College Business School
Heather will join a range of female leaders and professionals at Imperial College Business School for an event hosted by Women Mean Business Club. The club exists to empower and support female students at Imperial College Business School. The panel will be sharing their experiences, perspectives, and expertise on energy, climate, and sustainability-related topics.

City & Financial Global's Climate Transition Plans Summit
2024-02-20
As the focus shifts from design to implementation of the TPT Framework and sector guidance, this summit will provide practical, detailed guidance about the steps that financial firms and companies need to be taking now in order to ensure that they are prepared to meet regulatory expectations and produce transition plans of the required standard. Heather will join the conversation in a panel on ‘Transition plans as a tool to mobilise sustainable investment’. Register for the event and receive a 30% discount now.

Approaches to Incentivising Homes Elemental Webinar
2024-02-12 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/London)
Heather Buchanan will join this panel discussion to look at how we can encourage the take-up of home efficiency measures, with insight from experts across industry, including Rachael Owens, Director of the National Retrofit Hub and Will Rivers, Senior Manager at The Carbon Trust. Register for free now.

Net Zero Festival 2023
2023-10-31 - 2023-11-01 | Business Design Centre, London
The Net Zero Festival will bring together over 1,000 senior business executives, investors, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and campaigners over two days to explore how to navigate the defining economic, political, and technological trend of the age and work together to accelerate the net zero transition.
Bankers for Net Zero director and co-founder will be speaking in the ‘Small but Mighty: Helping SMEs Take on the Net Zero Challenge’ workshop on November 1st 14:00 – 15:00.
In this interactive workshop, we’ll be exploring how to empower small and medium-sized enterprises to become champions of the Net Zero transition. From funding to scaling up, we’ll look at the challenges and opportunities facing SMEs in the fight against climate change. Using insights from experts and real-life case studies, we’ll discuss practical strategies for engaging SMEs and overcoming barriers to change. Join us as we explore how SMEs can become the driving force for a sustainable future!

GITEX Impact
2023-10-16 - 2023-12-20 | Dubai World Trade Centre
GITEX Impact is the largest multistakeholder global technology event for breakthrough innovations in climate, ESG investments, sustainable finance & public-private partnerships.

78th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 78)
2023-09-18 - 2023-10-26 | New York City
The 78th UN General Assembly will take place September 18 to 26, 2023, at a time of unprecedented setbacks on global progress.
The Earth is getting hotter, faster. Poverty and food insecurity are worsening, amid war and inflation. Humanitarian needs are escalating in scale and cost. Inequality is deepening.
During UNGA 78, world leaders, including young leaders, will discuss and debate how to confront the global polycrisis, and find strategies to accelerate action on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Events within UNGA:
SDG Summit: 18th – 19th September
Climate Ambition Summit: 20th September

New York Climate Week
2023-09-17 - 2023-09-24 | New York City
Climate Week NYC is the largest annual climate event of its kind, bringing together some 400 events and activities across the City of New York – in person, hybrid and online.
Bankers for Net Zero director and co-founder, Heather Buchanan will be on the ground participating in a variety of the week’s events and networking with business leaders, policy makers and key stakeholder in the net zero space.

Innovation Zero Congress
2023-05-24 11:15 (Europe/London) | Olympia London
Innovation Zero is the platform for action positioned between the policy focused COP events.
The programme puts policymakers next to innovators who need the funding to scale up the commercialisation of low carbon solutions so that leaders from public and private sectors can deploy decarbonisation solutions in their supply chains to hit the UK legal target of emissions reductions.
A critical challenge is unlocking the vast quantity of capital required to enable the transition to a zero-carbon economy. How are the Finance sector working to align capital with net zero outcomes? How will the sector enable clean economic growth and job creation?
Hear from our Chief Executive and Co-Founder Heather Buchanan on the Financing the Transition panel alongside leading investors, lenders and finance sector leaders as they share their progress in enabling the transformation and their views on the opportunities being created.
Innovation is the best weapon in the fight against climate change and the event shines the light on new solutions from the Energy, Transport, Industrials, Finance and the Built Environment sectors.

The Just Transition to Net Zero
2022-12-01 17:00 - 20:00 (Europe/London) | SEC Newgate UK, 14 Greville Street, London, EC1N 8SB
It is our pleasure to invite you to join Bankers for Net Zero, the UK chapter of UN-convened Net-Zero Banking Alliance at its London event – The Just Transition to Net Zero – for an evening of networking and conversation on Thursday 1st December 2022 following COP27.
Places are limited, please RSVP to b4nz@secnewgate.co.uk
The evening will convene the coalition’s high-profile network of public and private sector stakeholders and core delivery partners. Join us for reception drinks and canapés from 5pm before a stimulating schedule of panels begins, with speakers from British Business Bank, WWF, Bankers for Net Zero, rewired.earth, and others.
Panel One
Delivering a just transition: Enabling UK SMEs to make the transition to net zero
Engaging SMEs is crucial if we are to hit the UK’s net zero targets, but often SMEs don’t have the expertise, resources, or time to transition to net zero alone. Hear exactly what is needed to enable banks and their SME customers to work together to reach net zero and why a common data language is essential to empower consumers.
Panel Two
Financing Nature: Scaling Nature based solutions in the UK and internationally
This panel will be exploring the topic of green finance, discussing how the UK is developing and implementing innovative financial solutions and what’s needed to scale these solutions, at pace.
We hope you will be able to join us for this event:
Thursday 1st December, 5pm-8pm
SEC Newgate UK
14 Greville Street
London
EC1N 8SB

The future of sustainability reporting with Gavin Starks, Icebreaker One
2022-11-15 13:30 - 14:00 (Africa/Cairo) | Sharm El-Sheikh International Convention Center, UK B4NZ Pavillion, Green Zone, Sharm El-Sheikh International Convention Center, Egypt
This event from COP27 will also be live-streamed here.
Our financial institutions are investing and managing $trillions towards a lower carbon future. As regulatory and net zero policies increase, today is the simplest things are going to be. We must address the scalability of trusted, verifiable and comparable reporting. At the moment global initiatives are pushing towards delivering a lower carbon future but they cannot yet prove that we will actually hit net zero. We need to improve access to data at scale, to improve its quality, reliability and assurance to ensure we move away from estimations.
This fireside chat with Gavin Starks from Icebreaker One will address the core reporting challenges faced by organisations today and how Icebreaker One are helping deliver Bankers for Net Zero’s new programme of work that will deliver rapidly scalable, low-effort, low-friction sustainability reporting for SMEs.

Are women’s voices loud enough in the climate debate?
2022-11-14 14:00 - 15:00 (Africa/Cairo) | Sharm El-Sheikh International Convention Center, UK B4NZ Pavillion, Green Zone, Sharm El-Sheikh International Convention Center, Egypt
This event will also be live-streamed to the Allbright LinkedIn page here.
To mark Gender Day at COP27, the CEO of AllBright, Viviane Paxinos, will be joined by:

Habiba Al Marashi, Co-founder of the Emirates Environmental Group (live from Dubai, the COP28 host city)
Heather Buchanan, CEO of Bankers for NetZero, who is currently in Egypt for COP27
Avery Johnstone, COP27 Youth Envoy at KPMGTopic: Are women’s voices loud enough in the climate debate?

COP27 Live: The Good Transition Plan
2022-11-11 15:00 - 16:00 (Africa/Cairo) | Sharm El-Sheikh International Convention Center, UK B4NZ Pavillion, Green Zone, Sharm El-Sheikh International Convention Center, Egypt
This event will also be live-streamed here.
This discussion, hosted by James Vaccaro from the Climate Safe Lending Network ahead of the launch of The Good Transition Plan Toolkit 2.0, will highlight stakeholder expectations, strategic questions and leadership approaches for sustainable transition plans.
The Good Transition Plan 2.0 gathers the best thinking, emerging best practices, and stakeholder expectations from over 100 climate-finance experts and professionals from around the world. It presents a structured approach to net-zero planning, with practical insights from sustainable finance leaders, including bankers, investors, policymakers, civil society organizations, and academics.
Speakers:

James Vaccaro, Founder, Climate Safe Lending Network
Wendy Dobson, Group Head of Corporate Citizenship, Standard Bank Group
Rhiona Bowhay, Transition Plan Taskforce

The role of the private & finance sector in delivering our net zero ambitions
2022-11-10 14:10 - 14:30 (Africa/Cairo) | Sharm El-Sheikh International Convention Center, UK B4NZ Pavillion, Green Zone, Sharm El-Sheikh International Convention Center, Egypt
This event will be live-streamed to the Bankers for Net Zero LinkedIn page here.
This fireside chat will address the importance of and need for positive collaboration, highlighting the fundamental, complementary role both of the private and finance sector and policymakers in achieving our climate goals. By creating clarity on how both sets of actors can contribute to the net zero transition, and what policies can optimise the contribution banks can make to the decarbonisation of the real economy, the objective for the session is to enable policymakers, banks and industry to most effectively drive the economy to a net zero future.

Moderator:

Heather Buchanan, Director & co-founder, UK Bankers for Net Zero

Confirmed panel:

The Rt Hon Grant Shapps, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy,
Natalie Blyth, HSBC, Global Head of Commercial Banking Sustainability
Will Jackson Moore, PWC, Global ESG Leader

Philanthropy for Climate: Catalysing climate action through global philanthropic resources mobilisation
2022-11-10 13:00 - 14:00 (Africa/Cairo) | Sharm El-Sheikh International Convention Center, UK B4NZ Pavillion, Green Zone, Sharm El-Sheikh International Convention Center, Egypt
This event will also be live-streamed and can be viewed here.
Philanthropy-led climate action, particularly in the Global South, is crucial to enabling climate mitigation and adaptation goals. Join IVPC’s COO, Allie Hollowell, at the Bankers for NetZero Pavilion on Thursday, November 10, at 1 pm EET for a discussion on philanthropy’s strategic role in climate action. Moderated by Alice de Moraes Amorim Vogas/WINGS, this panel will provide a broad overview of philanthropic climate action in different parts of the world and delve into the role of inter-sectoral partnerships as a key element to advance climate action in the philanthropic sector.
Speakers include:

Allie Hollowell from the International Venture Philanthropy Center (IPVC)
Hanna Hanses from Philea – Philanthropy Europe Association
Heather Buchanan from APPG on Fair Business Banking
Naila Farouky from Arab Foundations Forum (AFF)
Juan David Ferreira from Latimpacto

UK Finance: Bankers delivering Net Zero – French and UK perspectives
2022-11-10 11:00 - 12:00 (Africa/Cairo) | Sharm El-Sheikh International Convention Center, UK B4NZ Pavillion, Green Zone, Sharm El-Sheikh International Convention Center, Egypt
This event will also be live-streamed and can be viewed here.
The panel will discuss progress made in delivering on net zero, with illustrations on what net zero means for banks and their clients – to offer an opportunity to showcase voluntary developments and good practice, and share cross-Channel lessons.
Keynote:

French Banking Federation – Séverine Vadon-David, International Relations.

Moderator:

UK Finance – Ian Bhullar, Strategic Policy and sustainability

Panellists :

French Banking Federation – Karen Degouve, Head of Sustainable Finance
UK Transition Plan Taskforce – Jacques Morris, Team Leader and Group Policy Lead at Oxford Sustainable Finance Group
JP Morgan – Linda French, Global Head of ESG Policy and Regulation
BNP Paribas- Antoine Sire, Head of Engagement

A common language for sustainability - ensuring the whole market works together
2022-11-09 12:00 - 13:00 (Africa/Cairo) | Sharm El-Sheikh International Convention Center, UK B4NZ Pavillion, Green Zone, Sharm El-Sheikh International Convention Center, Egypt
Naomi Kerbel from SEC Newgate will moderate a discussion between David Marriage, Head of Disruption & Innovation for Sustainability, PwC and Rob Gardner, Director of Investment & Rewired.earth Board Member.
The event will be live streamed on LinkedIn and can be viewed here.
During the discussion they’ll explore 5 key questions that need answering, if we’re going to accelerate our transition to net zero:

Why do we need to think differently about ESG solutions and partnerships?
How can we give everyone a voice to drive a clear demand signal across the market?
What does designing an interconnected market solution look like and where are we today?
Why is the bankers for net zero programme so important for providing the power of an open, common data and reporting approach
What practical next steps will you be looking to drive post COP27?

B4NZ & Climate Safe Lending Network: Aiming Straight
2022-11-08 15:00 - 16:00 (Africa/Cairo) | Sharm El-Sheikh International Convention Center, UK B4NZ Pavillion, Green Zone, Sharm El-Sheikh International Convention Center, Egypt
The Climate Safe Lending Network and Carbon Tracker will be releasing and discussing a new report highlighting the consequences of each financial institution choosing their own 1.5-degree aligned scenario.
Speakers include:

James Vaccaro, Founder of the Climate Safe Lending Network

Decarbonising residential real estate around the world with UNEPFI
2022-11-08 13:00 - 14:00 (Africa/Cairo) | Sharm El-Sheikh International Convention Center, UK B4NZ Pavillion, Green Zone, Sharm El-Sheikh International Convention Center, Egypt
In this fireside chat, thought leaders from the banking industry will share experiences and thoughts on the decarbonisation of residential real estate around the world.
The event will take place in the green zone UK Bankers for Net Zero Pavilion and will be livestreamed on UK Bankers for NetZero’s YouTube channel.
Speakers:

Heather Buchanan, Director & Co-founder, UK Bankers for Net Zero
Eric Usher, Head, UNEP FI
Amine Bel Hadj Soulami, CEO, BNP Paribas MEA
Esteban Gaviria Vasquez, Vicepresident of Corporate Business, Bancolombia
