Topic Introduction Papers and Presentations
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Session 1: Mainstreaming Environmental Finance
Into Financial Markets ? Relevance, Potential and Obstacles
| Expert Presentation: Dr. Peter Lindlein, Chief Executive
Officer, iCee GmbH |
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| How important is environmental finance in achieving the MDGs
and other central frameworks of reference? What is unique to
environmental finance relative to financial markets generally? What
are key challenges on the demand and supply sides of environmental
finance markets and what bottlenecks are likely to be encountered
at the sector level? What roles can or should donors and
International Finance Institutions play? |
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Session 2: Mainstreaming Framework Conditions
for Environmental Finance Markets ? the Role of the Public
Sector
| Expert Presentation: Wolfgang Mostert, Director, W. Mostert
Associates, Denmark |
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| What are the underlying assumptions for ?conducive? framework
conditions? What impact do low/high energy prices have on
environmental finance? What legal and regulatory framework
conditions are required to build environmental finance markets?
What has been learned from recent experiences with subsidies? What
are the implications of green finance for MSMEs and
households? |
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Symposiums participants in the conference room in the premises of KfW in Berlin
Session 3: Mainstreaming Environmental Finance
Markets (I) ? Small-Scale Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Finance
| Expert Presentation: John MacLean, President, Energy Efficiency
Finance Corp. |
Paper (PDF, 551 KB,
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| Presenting best practices: what are the challenges and
bottlenecks in promoting energy efficiency and small-scale
renewable energy programmes? Analysis of recent experience: where
enterprise (and regulation) lead, finance follows ? or the other
way about? How does demand for energy efficiency investments
translate into finance products? How to raise awareness? Green
strategies for financial institutions: what is the right product
mix and what role is there for microfinance institutions? What kind
of subsidies are most appropriate for EERE programmes? |
Presentation (PDF, 804 KB,
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Session 4: Mainstreaming Environmental Finance
Markets (II) ? The Role of Weather Insurance and the Carbon
Market
| Expert Presentation: Benjamin Collier, Research Analyst and
Project Associate, GlobalAgRisk Inc., on behalf of Prof. Jerry R.
Skees, President, GlobalAgRisk Inc., & H.B. Price Professor of
Risk and Policy, University of Kentucky |
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| What role do financial markets play in the climate change
debate, in both mitigation and adaptation strategies? What are the
key challenges from a financial sector perspective? How can rural
clients become familiar with insurance products and small-scale
energy efficiency related investments? How can financial
institutions address the potentials and the bottlenecks in linking
their instruments with the carbon market, the emissions trade etc.?
What is the role of development finance institutions and the
opportunities for the private sector? |
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Session 5: Mainstreaming Impact over Time ? Who
Measures What for Whom?
| Expert Presentation: Prof. Renate Schubert. Head of Institute,
Institute for Environmental Decisions, ETH Zurich |
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| What impact can environmental finance have in dealing with
greenhouse gas emissions, the energy costs of SMEs and households,
resource use generally, and the overall strengthening of the
financial sector? How can the financial frontier embrace
environmental protection and related product diversification? |
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Moderated panel dicussion on impact measuring, Session 5
