Closing the Investment Gap: Scaling Capital for Sustainable Growth
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You need Blue Zone accreditation to take part in this event. We don’t provide it.
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Hosted by the World Climate Foundation.
Mobilising finance at scale is essential to translating global climate commitments into tangible progress on the ground. As COP31 shifts the focus towards implementation, closing the investment gap will require stronger collaboration between governments, financial institutions and businesses. This session will examine how public and private finance can be mobilised more effectively, how innovative financing mechanisms can unlock investment and how policy frameworks can create the conditions for capital to flow towards sustainable growth. It will identify practical opportunities to accelerate implementation of the global climate agenda by strengthening investment pipelines, reducing barriers to financing and scaling solutions that deliver measurable economic and climate benefits.
Speakers:
Moderator: Bethany Richards – Senior Policy Manager, Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC)
Andrew Wainer – Director, Market Insights & Capacity Building, Convergence Blended Finance
Geraldine Ang, Team Lead, Clean Energy Finance and Investment Mobilisation Programme, OECD
José Carlos Doherty – CEO, Brazilian Financial and Capital Markets Association (ANBIMA)
Luiz Lessa – President, Banco de Amazônia