Managed by South Pole and operating under the UN-led Financial Centres for Sustainability (FC4S Europe), the Open Innovation platform will help European financial centres develop, adopt and transfer innovations needed to mainstream green finance in local markets.
Zurich, Switzerland, and Dublin, Ireland, 8 November, 2018 – Recognising the power of financial centres in determining where capital flows, sustainability solutions provider South Pole has launched the Open Innovation Platform to catalyse and mainstream green finance initiatives in European financial centres.
Under the umbrella of the UN-led FC4S Europe, a global network to accelerate green and sustainable finance, the platform will focus on increasing cooperation between European sustainable financial centres, identifying the key innovation challenges specific to each centre and enabling systemic innovations as well as the design of new products and services that can contribute to the shift towards a green and sustainable financial system.