With the 10th Guernsey Funds Forum taking place in
London this week, Dr Andy Sloan - Deputy Chief Executive, Strategy,
at Guernsey Finance - explains why the panel on green and
sustainable finance must be a call to action on the
issue.
Serendipity is a powerful thing.
Last year when we determined the subjects of green finance and
private capital for this week's Funds Forum event in London, we
could not have foreseen how apposite these topics would be, come
May. Our own research says that private capital has become a
'go to' source of funds for specialist and intermediate
managers and arguably, with the interventions from David
Attenborough, Extinction Rebellion, and Greta Thunberg, there's
no bigger issue in 2019 than climate change. Green finance,
Guernsey Green Finance, is about financing climate change
mitigation projects. It is Guernsey's contribution to global
good.
