Funding the Green Transition: Navigating Developing Countries’ Climate Finance Needs

Webinars - By : Diana CÁRDENAS MONAR / Louise KESSLER, PhD

Date : Saturday, December 9, 2023

Time: 15:00-16:30 (GMT+4) // 12:00-13:30 (Paris time)

Location: SE Room 8 and online

Organising: I4CE, ETH Zurich, ClimatePolicy.net, St Gallen, NewClimate Institute 

This event has presented different approaches to overcome the financial hurdles attached to the implementation of national decarbonisation strategies, from a country perspective, and from the perspective of climate funds. 

 

Agenda

 

Context-setting presentations by: 

  • Abdulrasheed Isah, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich): The specificity of climate finance needs in the Nationally Determined Contribution – NDCs of developing countries;
  • Louise Kessler, Institute for Climate Economics (I4CE): Financing a low-carbon and climate resilient future: current approaches and ways forward;
  • Aki Kachi, NewClimate Institute: Climate and Transition Finance: Maximising Development Finance Institution – DFIs’ impact and avoiding perverse incentives when supporting coal phaseout. 

 

Panel discussion with representatives from countries and Multilateral Development Banks – MDBs: 

 

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09 Dec 2023

Funding the Green Transition: Navigating Developing Countries’ Climate Finance Needs

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Diana CÁRDENAS MONAR
Diana CÁRDENAS MONAR
Research Fellow – Tools for financing the transition at the international level Email
Louise KESSLER, PhD
Louise KESSLER, PhD
Programme director– Economy, Steering tools, Financing the transition Email
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