Bai Yunwen

INSTITUTE OF FINANCE AND SUSTAINABILITY

Yunwen Bai serves as the Vice President of the Institute of Finance and Sustainability (IFS). She has over 20 years’ experience working in the field of climate and energy finance, ESG investment, and has led and participated in numerous domestic and international collaborative projects in advancing sustainability. Since 2010, she has been consecutively engaging with the UNFCCC process on international climate finance, focusing on issues related to mitigation, carbon markets and financial mechanisms. Prior to the IFS, she co-founded Greenovation Hub, a Chinese Think-Tank advancing sound climate and environment governance. Her recent focus is to advance research and financing pilots regarding nature capital and biodiversity finance, and she also heads the Taskforce of Biodiversity Finance of the China Green Finance Committee of China Finance Academy, conducting in-depth research on nature financing, blue finance, and natural capital accounting.