Greening and scaling up public finance is critical, but it is not enough. Significantly scaling up private sector finance, including through greening value chains, green financial products (e.g. funds and loans) and carbon finance is needed to channel more resources toward activities with a positive impact on the environment and society. The Carbon Finance Summit, held over 2 half-days at the Blue Zone at COP29, aims to bring together high-level thought leaders from government, corporate, financiers, civil society and media to highlight the right investments and tools that can most effectively deliver the best outcomes for climate, nature and people.

LEADING ORGANIZATION: WWF International

ENGAGING VOICES FROM:

Panel:

  • Grace Fu, Minister for Sustainability and Environment, Singapore
  • Aloísio Melo, Director of adaptation and mitigation department of the Climate Change Secretariat, Ministry of Environment and Climate Change of Brazil
  • Rueban Manokara, Global Lead, Carbon Finance and Markets Taskforce, WWF
  • Frederick Teo, CEO, GenZero

Sharing:

  • Niklas Höhne, New Climate Institute

Panel:

  • Anastasia T. Marceau, Global Managing Director, Climate and Environment, Accenture
  • Mark Kenber, Executive Director, Voluntary Carbon Markets Initiative (VCMI)
  • Anshari Rahman, Director (Policy & Analytics), Genzero
  • Tracy Wyman, Chief Impact Officer, SBTi
  • Naoyuki Yamagishi, Head of Climate and Energy, WWF-Japan

 

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