This annual global conference hosted by the World Bank Group, focuses on climate finance, climate investment and climate markets.
Our team will be participating in a number of sessions from how to enable digital verification to the role of blended finance in driving climate action.
New Public – Private financial mechanisms for climate action
Tuesday 24 May 2022
17:10 – 18:00 PM CEST | 11:10 – 12:00 EDT
Virtual session hosted by the SCF consortium
Felicity Spors, Head of Sustainable Finance, will join a panel to discuss the role of blended finance in driving mitigation and adaptation interventions for vulnerable communities, sharing ideas on how to unlock, mobilize, and de-risk private capital at scale for sustainable infrastructure, ocean-based mitigation and adaptation strategies, and nature-based solutions. The event also features two real-life examples which are supported by the Green Climate Fund and managed by Pegasus Capital Advisors: 1) Subnational Climate Fund and 2) Global Fund for Coral Reefs.
The voluntary carbon market after Glasgow: How does the Article 6 rulebook shape the VCM and what options do stakeholders have?
Wednesday 25 May 2022
16:40 - 17:30 CEST | 10:40 - 11:30 EDT
Virtual session hosted by Wuppertal Institute
Chief Strategy Officer, Sarah Leugers, will highlight how Gold Standard is getting started with Article 6 and what implications the new rulebook holds for project developers, companies and national governments.
Speaker
Sarah Leugers, Chief Growth Officer
Changing role of the verifier
Wednesday 25 May 2022
17:40 – 18:30 PM CEST | 11:40 – 12:30 EDT
Virtual session hosted by SustainCERT
Owen Helwett, Chief Technical Officer for Gold Standard, joins a session exploring the implications of digitisation on verification. The session brings together standards and project developers to discuss the changes required to enable digital verification, how automation and data science can deliver consistency, quality, speed and scale, and what is the new blueprint for best practice.
Speaker
Owen Hewlett, Chief Technical Officer, Executive
Digital MRV - from concept to reality
Wednesday 25 May 2022
18:40 – 19:30 PM CEST | 12:40 – 13:30 EDT
Virtual session hosted by the Climate Ledger Initiative
The use of digital innovations in Measuring, Reporting and Verification (D-MRV) emerges as a key factor to scale up and provide trust in international carbon markets. Owen Hewlett joins the Climate Ledger Initiative (CLI) and its partners to discuss learnings from various use cases and pilot applications to explore which aspects can be successfully scaled up.
Speaker
Owen Hewlett, Chief Technical Officer, Executive