Funding the Green Transition: Navigating Developing Countries’ Climate Finance Needs
Webinars - By : Diana CÁRDENAS MONAR / Louise KESSLER, PhDDate : 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:
- Stéphane Hallegatte, World Bank (WB);
- Gareth Phillips, African Development Bank (AfDB);
- Dhesigen Naidoo, Presidential Climate Commission, South Africa;
- Sara Jane Ahmed, The Vulnerable Twenty (V20) Group.
