Consultant On Sustainable Finance Taxonomy for

hace 2 semanas


Panamá, Panamá, Panamá United Nations A tiempo completo
Result of Service


The purpose of this consultancy is to develop and implement the Panama's Sustainable Finance Taxonomy, focusing on climate change objectives.

The development of Panama's Sustainable Finance Taxonomy will consider the LAC Taxonomy Common Framework, the Central America Taxonomy, and the Common Ground Taxonomy of the International Platform of Sustainable Finance (IPFS) with the aim of ensuring the interoperability of the national taxonomy globally.


Specifically, under the direct supervision of the Programme Management Officer on Sustainable Finance for the LAC region, in close coordination with the Project Coordinator, the Consultant on Sustainable Finance Taxonomy has the overall responsibility for executing the Project's outcome 2.

4 "Strategies for transforming and attracting private sector investment for low emissions and resilience developed and being used", as defined in the approved project document, and particularly the following outputs:

Output Workplans and constitutive arrangements for the Taxonomy Committee within the Panama's Sustainable Finance Working Group (GTFS) established to develop and implement the Panama's sustainable finance taxonomy;
Output 2.4.2 The sustainable finance taxonomy is developed, piloted, and endorsed by the GTFS's Taxonomy Committee and;

Output 2.4.4 Capacity within financial supervisors and regulators, and financial institutions is built on sustainable finance taxonomy (including green labeling of financial products and green bonds).


The Consultant on Sustainable Finance Taxonomy will work in close coordination with the GTFS's Taxonomy Committee to conglomerate the relevant financial stakeholders needed for the development and implementation of the Panama's Sustainable Finance Taxonomy, and with the technical roundtables created under the governance structure for the taxonomy development.


In addition, the Consultant on Sustainable Finance Taxonomy will work in close coordination with the PCU, which will coordinate and organize the required high-level and technical discussions for the Panama's sustainable finance taxonomy development.

The PCU will support the Consultant on Sustainable Finance Taxonomy in coordinating the governance structure defined for the national sustainable finance taxonomy development and implementation (steering committee), organize the sectoral discussions (technical roundtables), and public consultation, review and finalization of documents, among others.

The

Consultant on Sustainable Finance Taxonomy will undertake the following activities:

  • Support the delivery of the Output Workplan and constitutive arrangements for the Taxonomy Committee within GTFS established to develop and implement the Panama's sustainable finance taxonomy by:
  • Preparing on the first draft of the GTFS Taxonomy Committee's workplan and constitutive arrangements (governance structure) for developing the national sustainable finance taxonomy, including specific stakeholders, roles, milestones, and constitutive arrangements for its implementation.
  • Identify the technical and financial industry reviews and public consultation process that should be followed for succeeding, in terms of relevance and flexibility.
  • Organizing, in close coordination with the PCU, a workshop for the GTFS's Taxonomy Committee, in which the workplan and the constitutive arrangements are presented;
  • Developing a final workplan and constitutive arrangements (governance structure) for developing and implementing the national sustainable finance taxonomy, considering all the comments received by the GTFS's Taxonomy Committee.
  • Support the delivery of the Output The Panama's sustainable finance taxonomy is developed, piloted, and endorsed by the GTFS's Taxonomy Committee by:
  • Developing the first draft of the Panama's sustainable finance taxonomy for climate change objectives (mitigation and adaptation), for which the following will be considered, but not limited:
  • Revise and further comment on the mapping landscape of Panama's national context prepared by the Ministry of Environment to give recommendations for the development of the first draft of the sustainable finance taxonomy for climate change objectives.
  • Review of existing national policies and conduct interviews, surveys, and focus groups, and/or use secondary search for data collection within the country to complement the analysis provided by the Ministery of Environment.
  • Consider the Common Framework of Sustainable Finance Taxonomies for LAC as a reference for the Panama's sustainable finance taxonomy development.
  • Align the development process of the Panama's sustainable finance taxonomy for climate change objectives with the development process of the Central America's sustainable finance taxonomy (subregional taxonomy), which includes Panama, led by the CCSBSO, considering that the subregional taxonomy only focuses on activities across all


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