About Climate Safe Lending Network
Who we Are
The Climate Safe Lending Network is an international multi-stakeholder collaborative dedicated to accelerating the decarbonization of the banking sector to secure a climate-safe world. The Network brings together a diversity of senior leaders and changemakers both within and influential to banks: including financial institutions, civil society, academics, investors, businesses, and policy experts.
Individuals are invited to participate for their ability to work in collaboration with others, even those with whom they disagree. We are learners and leaders, and we leverage our position and connections to accelerate action in our sector related to the shared goal. Whether its participating in a subject-specific workshop, or engaging more deeply in the leadership development fellowship opportunities, together we explore how we can play our optimum role in accelerating change.
What we do
Our Goal: Transform the banking system in alignment with decarbonizing the economy, staying below a 1.5°C global temperature increase, and creating the conditions for resilient ecosystems and the societies and economies within them
We believe that banks have a critical role to play in the fight against climate change, and we are committed to working with them to transition to a socially just, climate-safe world.
CSLN recognizes that effective climate action in the financial sector requires a multifaceted approach, including knowledge dissemination, leadership development, policy engagement, capacity building, collaboration, and data-driven assessment.
We are a convening space, advisory, and nexus for the sector and all associated stakeholders who can advance bold climate action.
Our Focus Areas
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Founding Members
Key Organisations
Design Team
Fran Boait, Executive Director, Positive Money
Lauren Compere, Director, Shareholder Engagement, Boston Common Asset Management
Ivan Frishberg, Director of Impact Policy, Sustainability Banking, Amalgamated Bank
Alisa Gravitz, CEO/President, Green America
Lydia Hascott, Head of Intrapreneurship, The Finance Innovation Lab
Leslie Harroun, Executive in Residence & Senior Fellow for Strategic Initiatives, The Democracy Collaborative
Tjeerd Krumpelman, Global Head of Advisory, Reporting & Engagement, ABN AMRO Bank N.V.
James Vaccaro CEO, RePattern: Systems, Strategy, Sustainability