This morning Mark Carney, UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance Advisor to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson for COP26, joined Taskforce Chair Bill Winters, Group Chief Executive of Standard Chartered, Operating Lead Annette Nazareth, a partner at Davis Polk and former Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and Sonja Gibbs, Operating Team Member and Head of Sustainable Finance at the Institute of International Finance (IIF), for a panel during the IIF’s Annual Membership Meeting to provide updates on the Taskforce’s progress:
During the event, it was also announced that the Taskforce has expanded and developed a Consultative Group to further broaden and diversify the Taskforce’s expertise. New members of the Taskforce include:
Jonathan Dean, AXA Investment Managers
Abyd Karmali, Bank of America
Ricardo Laiseca, BBVA
Amy Bann, Boeing
Aliyu Suleiman, Dangote
Jane Ashton, easyJet
Uday Senapati, Geely/Lotus
Jonty Rushforth, S&P Global Platts
Max Scher, Salesforce
Rasmus Bach Nielsen, Trafigura
And the Consultative Group includes:
Phillipe Richard, Abu Dhabi Global Markets
Mark Cutis, ADNOC
Mostyn Brown, AFRY Management Consulting
Ali Adnan Ibrahim, Al Baraka Banking Group
Bill Kentrup, Allinfra
Kirstin Munro, Ashurst
Ilona Millar, Baker McKenzie
Vedant Walia, Barclays
Anna Ozga, BHP
Ben Massie, BlueSource
David Wei, BSR/Transform to Net Zero
Jonathan Goldberg, Carbon Direct
Angela Churie Kallhauge, Carbon Pricing Leadership Initiative
Mike Knight, Carbon Tracker
Johan van Vuuren, Carbon Transparency Core Ltd
Andrea Maggiani, Carbonsink
Nicolette Bartlett, CDP
Paula DiPerna, CDP
Tim Atkinson, CF Partners
Dougal Corden, Citi
Lee Beck, Clean Air Task Force
Nasser Saidi, Clean Energy Business Council
Tim Stumhofer, ClimateWorks Foundation
Sandip Saha, CLP India
Julie Winkler, CME Group
Ben Jordan, Coca Cola
Agustin Silvani, Conservation International
Edwin Aalders, DNV GL
Ivano Iannelli, Dubai Carbon Centre of Excellence
Steve Zwick, Ecosystem Marketplace
Eron Bloomgarden, Emergent Forest Finance Accelerator
Srdan Susic, Emirates Nature
John White, EMTEC
Pavan Kumar, EnKing
Kelley Kizzier, Environmental Defense Fund
Jan-Willem van de Ven, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Walt Lukken, FIA
Jay Dessy, Gates Ventures
Ariel Perez, Hartree Partners
Jinny Yan, ICBC Standard Bank
Dirk Forrister, IETA
Sacha Thacker, Intercontinental Energy
Alzbeta Klein, International Finance Corporation
Thaïs Drozdowski, INUK
Scott O'Malia, ISDA
Liz Willmott, Microsoft
Karen Kochonies, Morgan Stanley
Tatjana Greil-Castro, Muzinich
William Swetra, Oxy Low Carbon Ventures
Matthias Krey, Perspectives Climate Group
Greg Sharenow, PIMCO
Ian Milborrow, PwC
Domenic Carratu, Rabobank
Louis Redshaw, Redshaw Advisors
Steffan Kram, Santander
Jonny Gilson, SCB Group
Morten Rossé, SYSTEMIQ
Duncan Scott, T. Rowe Price
Josh Brown, Tasc
Leslie Durschinger, Terra Global Capital
Christopher Webb, The Nature Conservancy
Johan Krebbers, The Open Group
Derya Sargın Malkoç, TÜRKİYE İŞ BANKASI
Aymeric de Conde, Vertis
Marc Sadler, World Bank
Claire O’Neill, World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Brad Schallert, World Wildlife Fund
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About the Taskforce:
The Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets is a private sector-led initiative working to scale an effective, efficient and functioning voluntary carbon market to help meet the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement. The Taskforce is chaired by Bill Winters, CEO of Standard Chartered, and sponsored by the Institute of International Finance (IIF) under the leadership of its President and CEO, Tim Adams. Annette Nazareth, a partner at Davis Polk and former Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, serves as Operating Lead, and McKinsey & Company provides knowledge and advisory support. The Taskforce’s more than 50 participants represent the financial sector, market infrastructure providers and buyers and suppliers of carbon offsets.