Index to Sessions

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09:00:

09:45:

11:15:

13:30:

14:45:

16:15:

17:30:

● Strategic perspectives on climate finance >>

● Financing and investment drivers for mitigation activities >>

● Group A: Innovative approaches and case studies in providing funding and investment for mitigation >>

● Financing and investment drivers for adaptation activities >>

● Group B: Innovative approaches and case studies in providing funding and investments for adaptation >>

● Group C: The role of local investors in mobilizing additional climate finance >>

● Group D: Tracking climate finance >>

● Summary and Conclusions: Closing Remarks >>

Strategic perspectives on climate finance

09:00 - 09:45

Expectations:

• Overview of the need for urgent action on the increasing intensity and frequency of extreme weather events and associated costs;

• Overview of climate finance institutions and work under the UNFCCC;

• Overview of the wider climate finance architecture, including multilateral, bilateral and national finance institutions;

• Overview of current climate finance flows, both public and private.

Facilitators:

• Diann Black-Lane & Stefan Agne - 
  Standing Committee on Finance

Panelists:

• Paul Oquist - 
  Presidency of Nicaragua

• Barbara Buchner -   -  (71 kB)
  Climate Policy Initiative (CPI)
   CPI Spaghetti 2012 (140 kB)

• Mariama Williams - 
  South Center

• Questions and Answers:  - 

Financing and investment drivers for mitigation activities

09:45 - 11:00

Expectations:

• Discuss the underlying opportunities, challenges, barriers and factors that determine investment decisions and/or the allocation of financial resources in mitigation activities, including a brief overview of current trends.

• Among other key questions, participants will have an opportunity to reflect on why investments in clean technologies still lag behind those in fossil fuel intensive technologies.

Panel composition

• Roundtable discussion with a Q&A session between the audience and the panel.

Facilitator :

• Syed Mujtaba Hussain - 
  Deputy Secretary, Government of Pakistan

Panellists:

• Hugh Sealy  - -  (74 kB)
  Vice-Chair, Clean Development Mechanism Executive Board,
  Professor, Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, St. George’s University, St. George’s, Grenada

• Abyd Karmali  -  -   (5 kB)
  Managing Director, Global Head of Climate Markets, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

• Vikram Widge- -   (70 kB)
  Head, Climate Finance & Policy, International Finance Corporation

• Jose Juan Gomez  - 
  Lead Financial Markets and Climate Change Specialist, Capital Markets and Financial Institutions Division, Inter-American Development Bank
   The role of national development banks (English)
  (3244 kB)  The role of national development banks (Spanish) (3367 kB)

Questions and Answers: - 

Group A: Innovative approaches and case studies by national, bilateral, regional and multilateral organisations and by the private sector in providing funding and investment for mitigation

11:15 - 12:30

Expectations:

• Show-casing of concrete experiences in developing and implementing policies, strategies and activities, as well as necessary measures or steps to accelerate the mobilization of finance for mitigation at the national and regional level.

• Discussion of cases of private sector engagement and partnerships to support mitigation activities.

Panel composition

• Brief presentations from panellists, followed by round table discussion with a Q&A between the audience and panellists.

Facilitator:

• Neeraj Prasad -  -  ( (69 kB)
  World Bank Institute

Panellists:

• Mary Gomez-Torres;  -  -  ((70 kB)
  Corporacion Andina de Fomento (CAF)

• Avril Benchimol-  -  ( (69 kB)
  Interamerican Development Bank
   Mobilizing finance for the Private Sector, Innovation in LAC (1971 kB)

• David Rodgers  - 
  Senior Energy Specialist, GEF secretariat
   GEF’s Intervention Models for Private Sector Engagement (149 kB)

• Marc Stuart  - 
  Private Equity Investor, Allotrope Ventures

Questions and Answers: - 

Financing and investment drivers for adaptation activities

13:30 - 14:45

Expectations:

• Overview of existing opportunities, challenges, barriers and factors that determine financial flows for adaptation activities, including a discussion on the overall financial needs, as well as possibilities for increased private investment involvement.

Panel composition

• Brief presentations from panellists, followed by round table discussion with a Q&A between the audience and panellists.

Facilitator :

• Naderev Saño  - 
  Co-Chair, UNFCCC/LTF work programme

Panellists:

• Juan Hoffmaister -  -  ( (5 kB)
  Legal Adviser, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bolivia; Adaptation Committee member and representing the Chair of the Committee

• Carlos Fuller -  -  (( (73 kB)
  International and Regional Liaison Officer, Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre

• Smita Nakhooda; -  - ( (5 kB)
  Research Fellow, Climate and Environment Programme, Overseas Development Institute

• Saliha Dobardzic  - 
  Climate Change Specialist, LDCF/SCCF Secretariat (GEF)

Questions and Answers:  - 

Group B: Innovative approaches and case studies by national, bilateral, regional and multilateral organisations and by the private sector in providing funding and investments for adaptation

14:45 - 16:00

Expectations:

• Show-casing of concrete experiences in developing and implementing policies, strategies and activities, as well as necessary measures or steps to accelerate the mobilization of finance for adaptation at the national and regional level.

• Discussion of cases of private sector engagement and partnerships to support adaptation activities.

Panel composition

• Brief presentations from panellists, followed by round table discussion with a Q&A between the audience and the panel.

Facilitator :

• Stefan Agne - 
  European Commission

Panellists:

• Ana Fornells  - 
  Former Chair and current member of the Adaptation Fund Board

• Andrea Kutter -  - (5 kB)
  Senior Program Coordinator, Administrative Unit, CIF

• Alexander Froede;-  - (5 kB)
  Environment and Climate Change Division, Competence Centre for Climate Change, GIZ
   It’s not just the money: institutional strengthening of national climate funds (1326 kB)
   Capacity development for direct access to climate finance (1156 kB)
   Climate Finance Readiness - Preliminary approach and insights from efforts in Southern Africa (308 kB)

• Daouda Ndiaye-  -  (6 kB)
  Secretariat of the Adaptation Fund Board

• Jorge Barrigh - 
  General Manager, Ecoressources Inc.

Questions and Answers: - 

Group C: The role of local investors in mobilizing additional climate finance

16:15 - 17:30

Expectations:

• Discuss which actions of the GCF, MDBs, NDBs, as well as local governments, would be considered most helpful by local investors. The presentations as well as the discussion will be guided along a set of questions and the main opinions.

Panel composition

• Brief opening statements by the facilitator and panellists, followed by round table discussion with a Q&A between the audience and the panel.

Facilitator :

• Ulf Moslener - -  -  70 kB)
  Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
   Presentation Ulf Moslener (527 kB)
   Global Trends in Energy Investment 2013 (4927 kB)
   Case study: the Thai Energy Efficiency Revolving Fund (1001 kB)
   Case study: Guyana REDD-Plus Investment Fund (GRIF) (659 kB)
   Case study: The Indonesia Climate Change Trust Fund (ICCTF) (520 kB)

Panellists :

• Diann Black-Lane  - 
  Ambassador, Government of Antigua and Barbuda;
  and
  Konrad von Ritter -  -  (5 kB)
  Consultant on climate change and cities
   Crowdfunding for Climate Change (321 kB)

• Dirk Forrister -  -  (68 kB)
  President, IETA

• Jessica Jacob  - 
  Director for Social and Environmental Responsibility, Findeter, Colombia
   Findeter - Supporting Sustainable Development (2294 kB)
   Colombian Green Protocol (476 kB)

• Fenella Aouane  - 
  Director, Energy and Environmental Markets, Standard Bank Group

• Questions and Answers:  - 

Group D: Tracking climate finance

16:15 - 17:30

Expectations:

• Stock-taking of existing guidelines and process under the UNFCCC and on-going initiatives for tracking climate related financial flows by other institutions.

• Discussion on potential approaches taken by recipient countries and other relevant actors to account for climate and responsible investments.

Panel composition

• Roundtable discussion with a Q&A between the audience and the panel.

Facilitator:

• Dennis Tirpak - (5 kB)
  World Resource Institute

Panellists:

• Alvaro Umana
  Former Minister, Costa Rica

• Jane Ellis  -  (4 kB)
  Principal Administrator, Environment Directorate, OECD secretariat
   Comparing Definitions and Methods to Estimate Mobilised Climate Finance (976 kB)
   Updated information on bilateral aid data (469 kB)
  CRS dataset on Rio markers
  Analytical papers on mobilising and tracking climate finance

• Franka Klingel
  Principal Administrator, Environment Directorate, EBRD
   Joint MDB Report on Adaptation Finance 2011 (464 kB)
   Joint MDB Report on Mitigation Finance 2012 (462 kB)

• Ruta Bubniene
  Programme Officer, UNFCCC secretariat

Summary and Conclusions: Closing Remarks

17:30 - 18:15

Expectations:

• Strategic perspective revisited

• Presentation of key conclusions and recommendations

Facilitator:

• Stefan Agne  - 
  Standing Committee on Finance

Speakers:

• Federico Ramos de Armas - 
  State Secretary of Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, Food and the Environment, Government of Spain

• Christiana Figueres  - 
  Executive Secretary, UNFCCC

• Neeraj Prasad  - 
  World Bank Institute

• Diann Black-Lane - 
  Standing Committee on Finance