6 Online Workshops in October/November 2020: Developing a Green Finance Taxonomy for South Africa

“Stakeholder engagements to inform the development of a Green Finance Taxonomy for South Africa”

Under the leadership of National Treasury, and with support from IFC (part of the World Bank Group), the National Business Initiative (NBI) and the Carbon Trust are working to develop a national Green Finance Taxonomy. This is one of the key  recommendations of the Financing a Sustainable Economy draft technical paper, recently published by National Treasury. 

Building on complementary initiatives and expertise in the South African market, the first national Taxonomy will be developed iteratively, informed by a series of targeted and focused stakeholder engagements.  

We have the pleasure of inviting you to participate in a user-group specific workshops to inform the development of a Green Finance Taxonomy.   

The objective of this consultation process is to collect your viewpoints and preferences as representatives of your respective organisations, networks, and communities of practice to inform the design, priorities and development of a first version of a Green Finance Taxonomy for South Africa.

Details of the 6 workshops are as follows:

• Workshop 1: (Monday, 12 October 2020) will be focusing on Policy Makers and Government Agencies as a critical user group. Please click here to register for this Zoom event.
• Workshop 2: (Friday, 16 October 2020) will be focusing on Financial Market Practitioners as a critical user group. Please click here to register for this Zoom event.
• Workshop 3: (Friday, 6 November 2020) will be focusing on Companies and Project Developers as a critical user group. Please click here to register for this Zoom event. 
• Workshop 4: (Monday, 19 October 2020) will be focusing on the Land-Use, Ecosystems and Biodiversity Sector as a critical user group. Please click here to register for this Zoom event.
• Workshop 5: (Tuesday, 13 October 2020) will be focusing on realising cooperation/collaboration opportunities with programmes and policy development activities with which this project could align. Please click here to register for this Zoom event.  
• Workshop 6: (Wednesday, 21 October 2020) will be focusing on Multilateral Development Institutions as a critical user group. Please click here to register for this Zoom event. Please note that we have changed the commencement time of this session to 13:30.     

For further information on the 6 workshops, kindly contact: Reitumetse Molotsoane.