Climate Finance Report Launch

The BEI Climate Finance Working Group brings together a cross-section of organisations that offer the full spectrum of expertise related to helping global, national, local and private sector clients meet the challenge of financing solutions to the increasing impacts of anthropocentric climate change, loss of biodiversity and natural disasters.

The working group is delighted to launch its first written output with an in-person event at 23 Grafton Street. The paper outlines the role of Climate Finance in supporting mitigation and adaptation actions to address climate change.

The urgency and scale of climate change the world is facing calls for an unprecedented transformation in the ways we produce, move and consume. The volumes of finance must increase many times over and rapidly, to support a systemic transition to low carbon and climate resilient development pathways. This requires bringing in new investors and types of finance, as well as using significant concessional finance in a more catalytic way to raise private sector capital.

Our paper frames the challenges in mobilising Climate Finance in terms of system-level barriers – relating to the quantity and quality of climate finance, as well as systems and distribution channels used to deliver climate finance – and country-level barriers – relating to the policy, institutional, capacity, transparency and accountability structures in recipient countries as well as the maturity of a pipeline of investments.

Timings

15:00-15:30     Arrival & registration

15:30-17:00     Report overview and discussion with key stakeholders (speakers TBA)

17:00-18:30     Networking