Paul Vermaak

Paul is responsible for the management and oversight of the Standards Team, developing Sector Criteria in various key hard to abate sectors. The Sector Criteria support the Climate Bonds Taxonomy and Standards to ensure alignment with the broader Climate Bonds climate resilience agenda (including, physical, social, economic and ecosystem resilience).

Sector Criteria require usable Mitigation & Adaptation and Resilience criteria and/or assessment frameworks for capital investments, assets, economic activities, and companies in all major sectors of relevance to capital markets.

Paul is a Project Manager and Earth Scientist with over twenty (≥20) years of experience in the ESG, Oil & Gas, Mining & Minerals, Built Environment, Forestry and Agricultural sectors.

He is a registered Professional Natural Scientist and member of the SA Council for Natural Scientific Professions (Reg. No. 400183/07), an accredited En-ROADS Climate Ambassador™ (Climate Interactive, 2021) an accredited Public Participation Specialist (IAP2, 2008) and is studying towards certification as a Green & Sustainable Finance Professional™ (CISI, 2021).

The Climate Bonds Initiative (Climate Bonds) is the world’s leading organization working to mobilize the largest capital market of all, the $100 trillion global bond market, for climate change solutions. It is an investor-focused not-for-profit organization, whose outputs are an open-source public good.

The Climate Bonds Standard and Certification Scheme, an emissions-focused labelling scheme for bonds, helps bond issuers prioritize investments that truly contribute to addressing climate change, and signal to the market that their proposed investments and activities are aligned to 1.5° pathways.