Focus on GFEC signatory: Chartered Banker Institute

The UN Special Envoy for Climate Finance, Mark Carney, calls for every professional financial decision to take climate change into account. This requires all banks and bankers to enhance efforts to improve reporting and risk management of climate risk; and seek returns from supporting the transition to a sustainable, low carbon world.

Ensuring every financial decision takes climate change into account requires institutions and individuals to align their activities and operations with this goal.  Bankers must take personal and professional responsibility for taking climate change and broader sustainability factors into account in every decision, and when advising colleagues, clients and customers. This means all bankers, must develop and demonstrate at least a basic knowledge of green and sustainable finance principles and practice.

Our Institute continues to lead development of green and sustainable finance education and training for bankers worldwide. In 2018, we launched the Green Finance Certificate, the world’s first benchmark qualification for green finance, now available through a network of partners in 35 countries. In 2019, we relaunched our foundation banking certificate, the Professional Banker Certificate, incorporating the UN Principles for Responsible Banking. A wide range of CPD materials are available to our members on green and sustainable finance and responsible banking, and we host regular events on these topics for our members and others.