What is the Green Finance Education Charter?
Announced in the UK’s Green Finance Strategy in July 2019, the Green Finance Education Charter brings together many of the world’s leading professional bodies for the first time in a commitment to integrate green and sustainable finance principles into the education and training programmes of finance professionals worldwide.
The Green Finance Education Charter is designed as a mechanism to help build the capacity and capability of the green finance sector by:
- Ensuring all financial services practitioners have the vital skills necessary to accurately assess climate-related risk and opportunities.
- Engaging with the domestic and international community through advocacy and shared knowledge and best practice, and responding to the dynamic and rapidly evolving green finance space.
Which organisations are involved in the Green Finance Education Charter?
The signatories are global financial chartered and professional bodies. In the UK alone, they represent more than a million accountants, actuaries, bankers, financial analysts, treasurers, risk managers and other professionals whose work is fundamental to the greening of finance.
Please click below to find out more about the work of each signatory.
What is the Green Financial Education Charter?
Signing the Green Finance Education Charter is a commitment to:
- Engage members on climate change and environmental issues;
- Curate, develop and promote relevant resources to members;
- Encourage the adoption of relevant global and national standards, frameworks and guidance (PRI, PRB, PSI, TCFD);
- Engage with policymakers, regulators, researchers and practitioners to identify and promote impactful and effective best practices in green and sustainable finance and support national strategies;
- Collaborate with other signatories, as well as domestic and international counterparts, to enhance and promote the integration of green and sustainable finance into academic and professional programmes of education and training;
- Work with the Green Finance Institute to engage employers and encourage commitment to and the take up of green and sustainable finance programmes of initial and continuing professional development; and
- Report annually on progress in mainstreaming the principles and practice of green and sustainable finance.
How to become a Charter Signatory
We welcome additional signatories who share our aims and objectives. For more information, and to express interest in joining the Green Finance Education Charter, please contact Simon Thompson, Chief Executive of the Chartered Banker Institute.