Supporting credible markets and nature-based solutions in Aotearoa New Zealand

About the Event

The New Zealand Government is focused on enabling private capital flows towards climate and nature solutions from a broader range of sources, including through the use of voluntary nature credit markets.

The NZ sustainable finance taxonomy (NZ Taxonomy), currently under development, is a standardised framework that will set expectations for the environmental performance of economic activities. This enables capital providers to mobilise and direct capital towards eligible economic activities. The NZ Taxonomy will give financial market participants clarity and confidence on environmental performance of economic activities.

In this webinar, Matt Cowie, Partner, Climate Change and Sustainability Services at EY, and Andy Reisinger, Co-chair of the NZ Taxonomy Technical Expert Group, will discuss how the NZ Taxonomy can support the Government’s objective.

Meet our speakers

Andy Reisinger - Co-chair of the NZ Taxonomy Technical Expert Group

Andy is an independent consultant specialising in the science-policy interface of climate change. He has held a number of roles with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He is currently serving as lead author for the IPCC’s next assessment report, and he was vice-chair of Working Group III (Mitigation) during the IPCC’s 6^thAssessment cycle completed in 2023. Before that, he served as coordinating lead author in the IPCC focusing on impacts and adaptation for Australia and New Zealand.

Andy is also currently one of eight Commissioners on the New Zealand Climate Change Commission, an independent expert body providing advice to the government on matters related to adaptation and mitigation. However, his contribution to the Technical Expert Group on sustainable finance is as subject matter expert only, not as Commissioner.

Previous roles include serving as Principal Scientist, Climate Change, at the Ministry for the Environment, and as Deputy Director (International) of the New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre.

Matthew Cowie - Partner, Climate Change and Sustainability Services
EY

Matthew has over 18 years’ experience in the climate change and energy sectors, with extensive knowledge of climate change and energy policy, emissions pricing and electricity markets. He also has substantial experience within the energy sector, which has been gained through working for large integrated utilities as well as from consulting projects. Matthew has helped companies in New Zealand, Australia and internationally to work through the set of steps that they need to meet in order to produce climate risk reporting under both voluntary and regulated disclosure frameworks. Prior to working at EY Matthew was in the Climate Directorate of the New Zealand Ministry for the Environment. .

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Supporting credible markets and nature-based solutions in Aotearoa New Zealand

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