Financing the transition towards low-carbon and climate-resilient economies in developing countries

This event presented solutions that can facilitate financing the climate transition and the role of different actors, such as finance ministries and public and private financial institutions.

It first featured a speech by Laurence Tubiana, key architect of the Paris Agreement and Director General of the European Climate Foundation. This was followed by short presentations on the main challenges of Transition Finance by Benoit Leguet, Director of I4CE, Sandra Guzman Luna, Founder and Director of GFLAC, Diana Cardenas Monar, General Coordinator of GFLAC, Deborah Murphy, Senior Associate of IISD, Micaela Carlino of FTDT and Sarah Bendahou, Project Manager of I4CE.

Roundtable on best practices and key solutions in Transition Finance with Sagarika Chatterjee, GFANZ Secretariat, Climate Champions Team, Graham Watkins, Chief of the Climate Change Division at Inter-American Development Bank, Stephane Hallegatte, Senior Climate Change Adviser at the World Bank and Luis Fierro, Green Economic Policies Expert, EU Global Support Facility for NDCs, moderated by Louise Kessler, I4CE. The event can be reviewed at this YouTube link.