Financing the Future: Public Development Banks and Climate Action

Achieving global climate targets and securing a resilient future requires an unprecedented mobilisation of capital. 

Standing at the intersection of public policy and private investment, public development banks hold the unique structural leverage needed to bridge this multi-trillion-dollar financing gap.

This event will explore how the global public development bank system can be systematically developed, scaled, and leveraged to expand the financing of climate action and sustainable development.

Leading financial experts, policymakers, and development practitioners will discuss innovative financing mechanisms and strategies to mobilise private capital and consider frameworks for embedding climate resilience into core lending portfolios. Panellists will map out how public development banks can evolve from traditional lending institutions into dynamic catalysts for a green and equitable economic transition.

Panellists

• Stephany Griffith-Jones, Emeritus Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies
• Meral Murathan, Executive Vice President, Türkiye Sınai Kalkınma Bankası (tbc)
• Rémy Rioux, President of Finance in Common
• Ulrich Volz, Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS University of London (moderator)

The event, which forms part of London Climate Action Week, is jointly organised by the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance, Finance in Common, and the International Development Finance Club.

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