Isabella Neuweg

MSc. Environmental Policy

I am a climate policy and green finance specialist. I have been working for twelve years on topics related to these two fields, across the public and private sector and in academia. I work with governments and central banks towards scaling up green finance and investments; and I currently focus on Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia at the Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation.

I have worked on climate and energy policies, in both developed and emerging markets for more than ten years. For the past seven, I have primarily focused on reforming public policy and financial frameworks to scale up finance for sustainable infrastructure and other green investments. I have identified and produced analysis to help inform decisions on mandatory ESG disclosure principles for financial regulators, clean infrastructure investments and environmental tax reform. Having worked in the private and public sector, in academia and for an international organisation, I am able to combine a multitude of perspectives in my approach and target my outputs to different audiences.

Selected work

What types of energy does China finance with its development aid? - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environmentWhat type of energy is China investing its vast development budgets in? New analysis shows China is investing more in low-carbon than high-carbon.

Here I gather together a large dataset on Chinese investments in energy infrastructure abroad.

Accessing and Using Green Finance in the Kyrgyz Republic: Evidence from a Household Survey | en | OECDThis report presents findings from a survey on green finance conducted among 1 000 households in the Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzstan) in 2019. Although green finance is an emerging trend, knowledge about the appetite for green financial products and...

This report is the outcome of me getting stuck in the topic of financial access in a developing country, in the context of assessing appetite for and use of green financial products amongst private households.

2022 GATF Annual Meeting - Item 3 - COVID Assessment on environmental…Presentation on the environmental effects of the COVID-19 related recovery measures in the EECCA region.

Here I present analysis on the environmental impacts of COVID-19 spending measures. I reviewed more than 300 fiscal and financial COVID-19 recovery measures on their environmental impact in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia.