You’re Invited! Aggregating Finance for Low Carbon Energy and Introduction to the Climate Aggregation Platform (CAP). Opening addresses: Helen Clark - UNDP and Naoko Ishii - GEF.

Panel: Martin Berg-EIB, Namita Vikas-Yes Bank, Christopher Kaminker-OECD, Shaun Tarbuck-ICMIF, Henning Wuester-IRENA, Arjun Batra-Lendables and Sean Kidney-Climate Bonds.

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Agenda:

3:45pm Welcome & Moderator

Sean Kidney, CEO, Climate Bonds Initiative

3:50pm Opening Remarks

Helen Clark, Administrator, UNDP
Naoko Ishii, CEO, Global Environment Facility (GEF)

4:00pm Perspectives from Market Actors

Arjun Batra, Chiefy Product Officer, Lendable
Martin Berg, Climate Change & Environment, EIB
Michael Eckhart, Global Head of Environment, Citi
Christopher Kaminker, Environment Directorate, OECD
Kyung-Ah Park, Global Head of Environment, Goldman Sachs
Henning Wuester, Director Knowledge, Policy & Finance, IRENA

5:15pm Close

What’s It’s All About?

To meet the challenge of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius, huge investments in clean energy and other climate solutions are needed.

The technology required is now well-developed. But in many developing countries access to capital can be limited, and the cost of capital is often prohibitively high.

This is especially the case with smaller-scale low-carbon investments such as solar or energy efficiency improvements for homes, communities and business.

The aggregation, or bundling together, of small loans and assets to create investment products that meet the large-scale needs of pension funds and insurance funds, holds out the promise of opening up new investment channels, both domestically, and between North and South.

Aggregation also allows developing country financial institutions, from banks to micro-finance lenders, to make the most of their limited balance sheets.

Please join us for this side event where leading actors will discuss their experiences with innovative transactions, and share their views on the latest developments and opportunities in financial bundling.

The side-event will also introduce the new ‘Climate Aggregation Platform’ (CAP), from Climate Bonds, UNDP, IDB and the GEF. Set for a launch in Spring 2016, the CAP aims to put aggregation concepts into practice in developing countries.

Rio Pavillion, Green Zone, 8 December, 15:45 - 17:15 CET

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COP21 Event: Aggregating Finance for Low Carbon Energy Forum