Finance is critical to accelerating and smoothing the transition to a low-carbon, equitable and climate-resilient economy. While public sector flows are growing substantially, private flows still lag behind with only a small percentage of invested assets targeting the climate transition. Only until recently, the main channels for private capital investment have been markets relying on carbon pricing and trading (e.g., EU ETS, WCI, China) along with those relying on capital allocation based on designated “use of proceeds” (e.g., green bonds, loans). But now we’re witnessing a surge of institutional investors and banks that have started to (or at least committed to) aligning activities with net zero and goals of the Paris Agreement.
Bringing together a diverse panel of leading industry, market and finance experts, this session will: map-out where carbon markets and climate finance intersect; unpack their critical and symbiotic relationship; and reveal how they can work together to decarbonize the world’s largest emitting sectors of the economy.