Martin Koehring | Development Finance & Sustainable Finance

Plastic Free July: taking stock of recent legal and technological progress

Economist Impact’s Sustainability Project spoke with me about the implications of the UN Treaty on Plastic Pollution and other recent signs of progress on the circular economy for plastics.

Read the full Q&A here

How to become a regenerative businessJuly 3, 2024
Speaking about regenerative business at London Climate Action WeekJune 4, 2024
Completed Basecamp course at School of System ChangeMarch 28, 2024
Moderating sessions on value chains at edie 24March 19, 2024
My TEDx talk has been publishedMarch 14, 2024

Tags: circular economy sustainability

Martin Koehring is a development finance and sustainable finance leader with a distinctive focus on ocean and nature-based systems.

He currently serves as Principal Research Fellow and Head of the Centre for Private Finance in Development at ODI Global, where he works on how private capital can be mobilised more effectively to support sustainable development outcomes.

Over more than 20 years, he has held senior roles across multilateral institutions, think tanks and global initiatives. Most recently, he served as Ocean & Finance Specialist at the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), contributing to the development of innovative ocean finance mechanisms including the One Ocean Finance Facility and the BBNJ Finance Advisory Group linked to implementation of the High Seas Treaty.

Previously, he held senior and leadership roles at The Economist Group, Forum for the Future and UNIDO. He currently serves as Trustee of the Marine Conservation Society and the New Economics Foundation.