Swiss Impact with Banerjis - Week 2

Week 2 - European Investment Bank

Dear All,

After a very successful starting last Friday. For all those who missed our show, you can watch the recording at:
https://camomile.ch/page/view-event-profile?id=25

We invite you all to our following program this coming Friday.

The weekly show on how Impactful investments and businesses are helping to implement the 17 UN SDGs worldwide to preserve the world for future generations.

We have enlightening and in-depth conversations with newsmakers, celebrities, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, project owners, investors, politicians, and business leaders and encourage them to act now.

This week's guest is the European Investment Bank (EIB).

EIB is one of the world’s main financers of climate action. The decade 2021-2030 is critical to address our planet's climate and environmental emergency. To achieve this, trillions of investment are required. The European Union and the EIB Group play a leading role in implementing the Paris Agreement. They place sustainability at the heart of their activities.

In 2007, EIB pioneered the green bonds market by issuing the world’s first Climate Awareness Bond (CAB), allocated exclusively to climate change mitigating activities in line with EU’s sustainability objectives. In 2018, EIB’s first Sustainability Awareness Bond (SAB) extended this approach to other environmental and social policy objectives. As of the end of July 2020, the EIB remains the world’s leading supranational of green and sustainability bonds with over €38 billion raised across 17 currencies. In total, CAB and SAB proceeds have helped finance 312 projects in 71 countries around the world.

The Bank targets to catalyze third party financing for Green investment through its interventions (EUR 1 trillion over the critical decade)

Elina Kamenitzer. Before taking up her role as head of the newly created Climate Office in the Bank’s operations directorate at the beginning of 2020, she leads EIB’s corporate lending team covering eleven markets in central and northern Europe including Germany, Austria, Poland, the Baltic States, and the Northern European countries. During her career, Elina has contributed to a number of green financing initiatives involving both public and private sector promoters and including financing of green innovation.