• 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 -   - 
  Climate Policy Initiative (CPI)
  CPI Spaghetti 2012
• Mariama Williams - 
  South Center

Questions and Answers:  - 

• 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.

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

• Syed Mujtaba Hussain - 
  Deputy Secretary, Government of Pakistan

• Hugh Sealy  - - 
  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  -  -  
  Managing Director, Global Head of Climate Markets, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

• Vikram Widge- -  
  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)
   The role of national development banks (Spanish)

• 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

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

Facilitator:

• Neeraj Prasad -  - 
  World Bank Institute

Panelists:

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

• Avril Benchimol -  - 
  Interamerican Development Bank
   Mobilizing finance for the Private Sector, Innovation in LAC

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

• Marc Stuart - 
  Private Equity Investor, Allotrope Ventures

• 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.

• 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

Panelists:

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

• Carlos Fuller  -  - 
  International and Regional Liaison Officer, Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre

• Smita Nakhooda  -  - 
  Research Fellow, Climate and Environment Programme, Overseas Development Institute

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

• 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.

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

Facilitators:

• Stefan Agne - 
  European Commission

Panelists:

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

• Andrea Kutter -  - 
  Senior Program Coordinator, Administrative Unit, CIF

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

• Daouda Ndiaye-  - 
  Secretariat of the Adaptation Fund Board

• Jorge Barrigh - 
  General Manager, Ecoressources Inc.

• 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.

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

Panelists:

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

• Dirk Forrister -  - 
  President, IETA

• Jessica Jacob  - 
  Director for Social and Environmental Responsibility, Findeter, Colombia
   Findeter - Supporting Sustainable Development
   Colombian Green Protocol

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

• 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.

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

Facilitator:

• Dennis Tirpak  - 
  World Resource Institute

Panelists:

• Alvaro Umana
  Former Minister, Costa Rica

• Jane Ellis  - 
  Principal Administrator, Environment Directorate, OECD secretariat
   Comparing Definitions and Methods to Estimate Mobilised Climate Finance
   Updated information on bilateral aid data
  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
   Joint MDB Report on Mitigation Finance 2012

• Ruta Bubniene
  Programme Officer, UNFCCC secretariat

• 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