We were delighted to invite BEC members and BEC Net-zero Carbon Charter signatories to an exclusive sharing session titled "How Does Transition Planning & Finance Move the Climate Needle of the Business World." Mr Ben Weisman, Director of Global Public Policy in the Secretariat of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), spoke with us on:
- How transition planning and transition finance would address climate risks, build up structural and financial resilience from business perspective.
- Business case for taking climate actions and the GFANZ’s latest policy advocacy and transition planning framework.
- Regional trends in building up climate resilience.
Speaker
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Mr Ben Weisman Ben Weisman is Director of Global Public Policy in the Secretariat of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), the largest coalition of financial institutions committed to supporting the decarbonization of the global economy. His work focuses on public policy issues around net-zero transition planning and mobilizing transition finance, and he helped lead the development of the GFANZ transition plan framework. Previously, he led work on innovation, sustainability, and inclusion in financial services at the World Economic Forum and was a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). He began his career on the international strategy and policy team at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Ben holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a master’s in public policy from Harvard Kennedy School, and a BA in Public & International Affairs and Environmental Studies from Princeton University.
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About GFANZ
GFANZ focus on encouraging a globally consistent approach to transition planning, both as an element of climate disclosure, but also to support risk identification/management from regulators/supervisors' perspectives. It drives recognition of transition finance in sustainable finance policy frameworks and ensure that efforts around MDB/IFI reform focus on expanding emphasis on mobilising private capital.