Climate & Development Finance: What Works?
With the world moving from global warming to “global boiling,” in United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres’s dramatic description, there is more urgency than ever to unlock the capital needed for the transition to a net-zero economy. That will mean not only increasing funding commitments, but also deploying financing for climate and sustainable development in the most efficient and effective way possible. While the development community knows what it needs to do, the question now is how to do it.
SPEAKERS
Bertrand Badré
Former Managing Director of the World Bank and CEO and Founder of Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital
Werner Hoyer
President of the European Investment Bank
Eila Kreivi
Chief Sustainable Finance Adviser at the European Investment Bank
Mark Malloch-Brown
President of the Open Society Foundations
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Director-General of the World Trade Organization
Nancy Saich
Chief Climate Change Expert at the European Investment Bank
Vera Songwe
Chair of the Liquidity and Sustainability Facility and Co-Chair of the High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance
Laurence Tubiana
CEO of the European Climate Foundation
Isabella M. Weber
Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst