Macroprudential Systemic Capital Buffers to Address Climate Systemic Risks

Pierre Monnin is a Senior Fellow at CEP and a Visiting Professor in Practice at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He works on central banking, monetary policy, and financial regulation, focusing on their environmental and social sustainability interdependencies. Before joining CEP, he worked for the Swiss National Bank (SNB) in various roles for ten years, as well as in the financial industry.

Aziz Durrani leads the Technical Assistance function at AMRO. His work includes advising on climate and nature-related risks and on green and sustainable finance policies. Aziz was previously a Senior Technical Risk Specialist at the Bank of England where, amongst other things, he managed the Bank’s collateral refinancing expansion program following the GFC.

Laura Canas Da Costa is the Global Policy Co-Lead at the UNEP FI, responsible for managing UNEP FI’s engagement with financial regulators and supervisors, to strengthen industry positioning and relevance, and to foster progressive and proactive regulatory action informed with practitioners’ perspectives. Prior to joining UNEP FI, Laura was a Sustainable Finance Policy Manager at Credit Suisse. She has also worked on sustainable finance and infrastructure topics for WWF Switzerland, SUSI Partners and KfW Bank among others. In addition, Laura is a guest lecturer on sustainable finance and infrastructure topics at the Frankfurt School of Finance, University of Zurich and Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart.