Sustainable investments with Eila Kreivi

In this episode, we had the pleasure of welcoming none other than Eila Kreivi, the Chief Sustainable Finance Advisor at the European Investment Bank. EIB is one of the world’s main financiers of climate action and environmental sustainability. In 2022, the share of EIB investments that went to climate action and environmental sustainability projects rose to €36.5 billion, or 58%.
 
Eila started her career at the Union Bank of Finland and Société Générale, and later joined the financing arm of the European Union. For more than two decades she headed the Capital Markets Department of the EIB, as its Director, and became the Chief Sustainable Finance Advisor at the European Investment Bank last year, in February 2022. Eila also chaired the Executive Committee of the Green Bond Principles in 2015-2018 and represented the EIB at the European Commission’s Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance created in 2018, working on EU green bond standards.

Eila shares her experience working on sustainable finance, the main changes she perceived on ESG throughout all these years working for the EIB and the key developments for sustainability in the financial sector. She elaborates on the actions the EIB takes to normalise the inclusion of ESG considerations into investment decisions, green bond principles and standards.