Bouke de Vries
IndependentClimate Finance Expert
NextGreen collaborates with organizations that share green ambitions, providing process facilitation and workshops within initiatives such as Communities of Practice and Green Deals. I work with them on assignments related to climate action and public-private collaboration.
I Will Power, founded by Alexander de Bruin, is an organization focused on guiding sustainable transformation within companies and across sectors. Together we develop a training program on climate finance and nature-based solutions.
This platform has been established in 2016, with the aim of promoting sustainability in the Netherlands, for example by removing barriers to sustainable financing and collaborating on sustainability initiatives. I engage with one of its working groups, the Working Group Climate Adaptation, of which I was previously a member.
A national initiative aimed at enhancing climate resilience through public-private cooperation between government, the financial sector, business sectors and scientific institutes.
The Reflection Group on Mobilising Climate Resilience Finance advises about how to unlock more public and private capital for climate action across the EU. I participated as an expert in this group.
The European Banking Federation (www.ebf.eu)and the European Association of Cooperative Banks (www.eacb.coop) advocate for the interests of European banks and maintain dialogue with regulators and supervisors. I collaborate with them to explore the financial sector’s evolving role in the climate transition.
This UN initiative (www.unepfi.org) partners with financial institutions around the world to bring about systemic change in finance to support a sustainable world. I have reviewed several of their reports on the role of banks in the climate transition, aligning financial flows with climate transition pathways, and on for example disclosure frameworks. I also participated in their expert meetings and stakeholder dialogues.
