Pioneering, promoting and partnering: that is the purpose of the Sustainable Finance Platform. Through this platform, the financial sector, supervisory authorities and government ministries work together on sustainability initiatives.
In 2016, De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) established the Sustainable Finance Platform. It was set to promote and increase awareness of sustainable funding in the financial sector and foster cooperation. Sustainability is interpreted in the broadest sense of the word, with a particular focus on environmental, social and governance aspects. Olaf Sleijpen, the platform's chair, emphasized that many financial institutions are taking valuable initiatives. “The platform makes it easier for them to connect with one another, the government and supervisory authorities. This provides a powerful impulse to sustainable finance.”
Nine organisations participate in the Sustainable Finance Platform, represented by their directors.
De Nederlandsche Bank (chair)
Olaf Sleijpen, Executive Director
Dutch Banking Association (Nederlandse Vereniging van Banken)
Medy van der Laan, Chair
Dutch Association of Insurers (Verbond van Verzekeraars)
Richard Weurding, Managing Director
Dutch Fund and Asset Management Association
Iris van de Looij, Managing Director
Federation of the Dutch Pension Funds
Edith Maat, Director
Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets
Laura van Geest, Chair of the Executive Board
Ministry of Finance
Joost Smits, Director of the Financial Markets Directorate
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy
Niels Redeker, Deputy Director of the Climate Division
Sustainable Finance Lab
Rens van Tilburg, Managing Director
Invest-NL
Joanne de Jonge, Directeur Strategy
What the Sustainable Finance Platform does
The platform's members can decide to establish a working group dealing with a specific theme. The members of each working group represent a wide range of parties from the financial sector. Together, they focus on a theme and present their findings to the full platform. The platform discusses the findings during its bi-annual meetings, adopts positions and publishes definitive reports.
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Speech
“Sustainable finance is not only about managing financial risks, about stability. Sustainability is also about change. About making better choices for a better world.” That was the message of Klaas Knot in his lecture at One Planet, where he spoke to an audience of mainly students.
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The Biodiversity Working Group of the Sustainable Finance Platform, together with the Erasmus Platform for Sustainable Value Creation, today published its study “Financing regenerative agriculture”.
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On 11 May, Steven Maijoor spoke at the AFME European Sustainable Finance conference. He talked about how climate-related and environmental (C&E) risks affect the financial system and about how supervisors and banks must respond to these risks.
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