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07/01/2021
Webinar I Why are financial institutions focusing on the alignment of counterparties?
The Paris Agreement has strengthened the call to the financial community to provide an essential contribution to climate action. To date, the focus of alignment efforts has principally been on what is financed – i.e. the individual projects or business activities. However, financial institutions of all types have recently been expanding the focus from […]
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06/08/2021
Webinar I Climate assessment of local budgets: the case of Strasbourg, Paris & Oslo
Looking at cities’ budget can steer change by tracking expenditures that contribute or are harmful to the ecological transition. For local authorities, it is particularly at the time of the vote on their budget that it is possible to question these expenditures and to direct them as much as possible towards the climate transition. […]
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06/01/2021
Webinars
Webinar | Finance ClimAct webinar: New tools for a renewed EU Strategy
The Finance ClimAct project just completed its first phase (March 2019 – March 2021) with concrete and operational contributions to the implementation of French and European policies for sustainable finance. As the Renewed Strategy for Sustainable Finance of the EU is about to be released, we invite you to discuss the results of our actions to date, recent progress by the financial sector and challenges that the world of finance still faces in contributing to a low-carbon, climate-resilient economic recovery. This event is organized as part of the EU Green Week 2021.
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06/01/2021
Finance ClimAct webinar: New tools for a renewed EU Strategy
The Finance ClimAct project completed its first phase (March 2019 - March 2021) with concrete and operational contributions to the implementation of French and European policies for sustainable finance. As the Renewed Strategy for Sustainable Finance of the EU was about to be released, we invited you to discuss the results of our actions to date, recent progress by the financial sector and challenges that the world of finance still faces in contributing to a low-carbon, climate-resilient economic recovery. This event was organized as part of the EU Green Week 2021.
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02/17/2021
Webinar I Physical climate risk and finance: Insights from climate experts and investors to inform climate risk management
February 17th 2021 @ 14:30 – 16:00 CET Financial costs of climate change are rising, and investors need more transparent information to manage their physical risks. The European research project ClimINVEST brings together climate scientists and experts and financial actors to collaborate on improved tools and information. Join our closing webinar on February 17th […]
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02/17/2021
Webinars
Webinaire I Risque climatique physique et finance : Les points de vue des experts du climat et des investisseurs
Financial costs of climate change are rising, and investors need more transparent information to manage their physical risks. The European research project ClimINVEST brings together climate scientists and experts and financial actors to collaborate on improved tools and information.
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12/11/2020
Online conference I Mainstreaming Climate to Align with Paris
Where do we want to go? Where Are We? How do we move forward together? Date: 11th of December 16:00-17:30 CET Format: Online Conference on the sidelines of the Climate Ambition Summit 2020. This was a virtual event via Zoom Webinar that is open to all interested attendees, At COP21 in December 2015, country […]
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12/09/2020
Webinar I Green Finance Research Advances
The conference is the 5th edition of a yearly event co-organized by the Institut Louis Bachelier and the Banque de France, with the participation of Finance For Tomorrow and the Institute for Climate Economics-I4CE. The objective of the conference is to bring together academics, finance practitioners and regulators, to discuss together research issues related to […]
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11/19/2020
Webinar | How can development banks accelerate the green financial and budgetary transition
Finance in Common Summit and London Climate Action week Side-event The climate emergency, and the commitments of countries to support the objectives of the Paris Agreement have highlighted the need, in the very short term, to increase and reorient public and private funding towards the sectors necessary for the low-carbon transition, while reducing the flow […]
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10/27/2020
Webinar I Landscape of climate finance: From supporting recovery globally to recent advances in the CEE region
As part of the EUKI-supported project “Landscape of climate finance: Mainstreaming climate finance in the CEE region”, this workshop aims to connect the global discussion on tracking climate-related investment and finance flows with recent work in the central and eastern European (CEE) Region. Workshop objectives Provide an updated and an overview of the state […]
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12/18/2019
Webinar I Climate Investment & Sustainable Finance: What progress and insights for the CEE region?
As countries move forward to implement national climate strategies, National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) and more broadly Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), there is an increasing need to understand how to transform investment needs into capital raising and financing plans. Today countries in Central Europe are moving forward to collect the information and data […]
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12/02/2019
Webinar I Fostering decision-useful information on physical climate risks
Financial actors are now exposed to the impacts of climate change on the real economy, these impacts are observable and will intensify and the years to come. Financial institutions need to prepare for physical climate risks; however, they face a lack of relevant science-based information to make the decisions. – How to meet […]
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11/18/2019
Webinar I Funding Models for the Energy Transition: Landscapes of Climate Finance
As countries move forward to implement national climate strategies, National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) and more broadly Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), there is an increasing need to understand how to transform investment needs into capital raising and financing plans. This webinar will look at the insights that tracking domestic climate investment and finance […]
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11/25/2019
Conferences
Conférence I Green Finance Research Advances
The conference is the 4th edition of a yearly event co-organized by Institut Louis Bachelier and Banque de France, with the participation of Finance For Tomorrow and the Institute for Climate Economics -I4CE.
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11/28/2019
Conferences
CONFÉRENCE I translating physical climate hazards into financial impacts
Financial actors are already exposed to the impacts of climate change on the real economy as illustrated by PG&E’s bankruptcy in early 2019. While financial institutions need to prepare for physical climate risks now, they face a lack of science-based information relevant for their decisions.
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09/24/2019
Conferences
Expert Workshop on Paris Alignment – New York City
On the sidelines of the UN Climate Action Summit, I4CE as the Secretariat of the Climate Action in Financial Institutions Initiative is organizing an Expert Workshop on Paris Alignment in partnership with the International Development Finance Club (IDFC) and the group of Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) with support from the European Climate Foundation (ECF).
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05/07/2019
Conferences
Conference l State of the EU ETS
The “State of the EU ETS” Report aims to provide an independent contribution to the policy debate, which is needed to ensure that the EU ETS is “fit for purpose”. This report discusses the current state of play in the EU ETS and the recent policy developments, analyses the efficiency of the system and includes a focus on the Market Stability Reserve (MSR) which started operating in January 2019.
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03/15/2019
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A European network to accelerate the tracking of climate investments
On March 15th, 30 experts from governments, academia, think-tanks and public banks met in Berlin to lay the foundations for a new European network on climate finance. It intends to accelerate the tracking of climate and energy investments, and to improve the understanding of investments needs in order to support policy making at the EU level and in Member States.
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11/29/2018
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How can we accelerate climate change financing in France and in Europe?
This first event of the collective will provide an opportunity to take stock of climate investments in France, with the release of I4CE’s new edition of the Landscape of Climate Finance, and will enable MEPs from all political groups to propose reforms to accelerate these investments.
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11/27/2018
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Green Finance Research Advances
The objective of the day is to bring together academics, finance practitioners and regulators to discuss together the recent research advances in the field of modelling climate-related financial risks, provide a better understanding of the role of central banks in addressing these risks, and formulate the relevant research agenda for the years to come.