IF recently held a webinar on the circular economy and the role that the financial industry can play in the movement.
We wanted to ask the following questions:
• Circular economy is about material products, modern finance is immaterial, what relation is their between the circularity movement in business and the financial industry?
• Is there a commercial incentive for financial businesses, such as banks for example, to engage with a company looking to transition to a circular business model?
• Practically speaking, how will it change what financial institutions offer their clients?
Speakers include:
• Richard Kooloos, head of sustainable banking, ABN AMRO
• Gert-Jan Sikking, managing director, innovation institutional business, PGGM
• Gerald Naber, vice president sustainable lending, ING
We wanted to ask the following questions:
• Circular economy is about material products, modern finance is immaterial, what relation is their between the circularity movement in business and the financial industry?
• Is there a commercial incentive for financial businesses, such as banks for example, to engage with a company looking to transition to a circular business model?
• Practically speaking, how will it change what financial institutions offer their clients?
Speakers include:
• Richard Kooloos, head of sustainable banking, ABN AMRO
• Gert-Jan Sikking, managing director, innovation institutional business, PGGM
• Gerald Naber, vice president sustainable lending, ING
You can listen to it here. And below of course.
I'm Tobias Webb, founder of Innovation Forum and Sustainable Wine. I write on this blog, with others, about areas of interest to me in supply chains, circular economy and sustainability in general. I hope you find it useful. I've worked in sustainability for about 20 years, and work with large companies, NGOs and governments all over the world. I often act as facilitator, at our conferences, and other meetings, either private or multi-stakeholder. I also work as a 'critical friend' advisor to companies on strategy and stakeholder engagement. I have a separate wine website on sustainability in wine at 
