Funding the Shift: Making Transition Finance work for your Business

Marten Deuter is Senior Manager and Head of Sustainable Finance at :response with 12 years of consulting experience. He supports financial institutions in developing criteria and frameworks for sustainable finance and transition finance, calculating financed emissions in lending portfolios for transition risk assessment and transition planning, and integrating sustainability into banking processes. He also advises companies on sustainability-related regulatory requirements and ESG rating improvements. He is one of the authors of the handbook “Sustainable Finance: Opportunities beyond Regulation” published by the UN Global Compact Network Germany.

Arved Lüth is the founder and Managing Director of :response, a sustainability consultancy with offices in Frankfurt (Main), Berlin, and Hannover. He brings 30 years of experience advising companies, financial institutions, foundations and policymakers on sustainable finance, industrial sustainability, stakeholder dialogue, and societal transformation. His work includes ESG transformation programs at major banks and sustainability strategy development for companies across industries. He has also established initiatives for sustainability and transformation in several industries including chemicals, utilities, insurance, and circular economy.

Before joining UNEP FI, Beatriz was Senior Account Manager at CDP where she worked with financial institutions on their environmental disclosure and strategy. She also brings experience in sustainability reporting standards from her work at GRI. She holds a Master in Sustainable Development and Environmental Management from Bocconi University and a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing and Communications from ESPM (Sao Paulo, Brazil).