Caroline Haas
Managing Director, Head of Sustainable Finance Advisory, NatWest
Caroline works with clients across products and markets on Sustainable Finance, which includes ESG rating, carbon markets, regulatory and disclosure insights. In addition to the financing dialogue, she engages with institutional investors globally to understand their responsible investing objectives and develop new products to meet their respective needs.
Caroline is actively involved in NatWest Group’s climate change programmes and working groups. In addition, she represents NatWest on the FMSB Board, the LSE’s Sustainable Bond Market Advisory Council and UK’s Transition Finance Council’s working group. Participation in these industry groups enables Caroline to help shape sustainable finance as it evolves.
Caroline graduated from Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry followed by an MBA from European University.
INNOVATING FINANCE
Strategies and technologies powering the sustainable transition
- Differentiating climate solutions from transition finance: how should investors and lenders assess credibility, impact, and intent?
- Defining a credible transition plan: what best practice looks like today and how companies are embedding transition planning into core strategy and capital allocation
- Exploring regional differences in transition pathways: how policy, market structure, and energy systems shape transition approaches globally
- Assessing the tools and technologies available to measure transition progress, including data platforms, scenario tools, KPIs, and transition metrics
- Identifying key headwinds facing the transition, from policy inconsistency and data gaps to financing constraints and execution risk
- Examining the growing focus on the Just Transition: how companies are incorporating social considerations into decarbonisation pathways and managing impacts on workers, communities, and value chains