COP26 Side Event: Aligning finance with the Paris Agreement and unlocking $100bn

To achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, financial flows need to help drive decarbonisation and climate resilience. This panel will explore the challenges and opportunities of aligning development finance with climate objectives, the critical role of export credit agencies and development banks, the post-2025 climate finance target, and the potential of national policy in unlocking international finance.

Speakers

• Prof. Karsten Neuhoff, PhD | DIW Berlin - German Institute for Economic Research | Enabling transformative change through interactions of domestic policies and international climate finance
• Carolyn Neunuebel | World Resources Institute | Aligning MDBs’ Policy-based Financing with the Paris Agreement (presenting as part of the research consortium of Germanwatch, NewClimate Institute and WRI)
• Philipp Censkowsky | Perspectives Climate Group | Aligning public finance institutions with the Paris Agreement: The case of Export Credit Agencies
• Dr. Pieter Pauw | Frankfurt School of Finance & Management | Post-2025 climate finance goal: How much more and how much better?
• Guest speaker: Tasneem Essop | Executive Director | Climate Action Network
• Moderation by Dr. Catherine Marchewitz, senior researcher at DIW Berlin - German Institute for Economic Research

Organised by

• The German Institute for Economic Research
• Perspectives Climate Group
• Frankfurt School
• Germanwatch
• NewClimate Institute
• World Resources Institute