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Sign up to our mailing listTeam UK is TheCityUK’s initiative to bring together leaders from across the UK’s international sustainable finance landscape with government, regulators and policymakers. It provides a forum to strengthen public-private sector alignment and collaboration, support coordinated engagement at key international events, and showcase the breadth of the UK’s sustainable finance skill and expertise.
Team UK Sustainable Finance Playbook
The Team UK Sustainable Finance Playbook supports this wider initiative by bringing together the UK’s sustainable finance offer around three priority areas: transition finance; carbon markets; and insurance, adaptation and risk management.
It provides a practical framework for engagement across government and industry, bringing together key messages, initiatives, market opportunities, data and case studies. The playbook is intended to support consistent engagement with international partners and at major global events, while highlighting opportunities for collaboration, investment and practical delivery.
The playbook focuses on three areas where the UK’s financial and related professional services ecosystem can support international partners:
Transition finance: Supporting the economy-wide transition to net zero by connecting credible transition pathways with the finance needed to deliver them. The playbook explores how the UK’s capabilities across financial and related professional services can contribute to creating the conditions to mobilise private capital and support investment in the transition.
Insurance, adaptation and risk management: Helping countries and businesses better understand, manage and finance physical climate risks, while supporting greater investment in adaptation and resilience. The playbook considers the role of insurance and wider financial and professional expertise in managing risk and helping to unlock private capital for resilience.
Carbon markets: Supporting the development of scalable, high-integrity carbon markets that can mobilise private finance for emissions reductions and removals. The playbook considers how UK expertise and market capabilities can support the development of effective carbon markets, strengthen confidence and help create opportunities for investment.
Across these areas, the playbook demonstrates how the UK’s financial and related professional services expertise can work alongside government and international partners to support investment, develop markets and turn sustainable finance ambitions into practical delivery.
Download the Team UK Sustainable Finance Playbook to find out more about the UK’s capabilities and opportunities for partnership across these priority areas.
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